Opinion: Is the party over for the boys in Australian federal politics?
By Mark Kenny A version of this article was originally published by The Canberra Times. According to the old election-day joke, it makes no difference who you vote for because a politician…
Opinion: End-of-days feel a poetic way for government's year to end
By Mark Kenny A version of this article was originally published by The Canberra Times. The Federal Government ended the parliamentary year in much the same way it began - battling controversy…
Opinion: Booze is the habit Parliament just can't kick
By Mark Kenny A version of this article was originally published by The Canberra Times. Not so long ago, I received an invitation from a federal minister to drop in for a chat about a policy…
Religious freedom, One Nation, it's all spin
By Mark Kenny A version of this article was originally published by The Canberra Times. In politics, a name says everything about how a given party wants to be seen but obscures what it…
Close, uninspiring, and probably nasty. Election 2022 will have everything but ideas.
By Mark Kenny A version of this article was originally published by The Canberra Times. Curious isn’t it that it is probably among those most committed to a change of government, that Labor’s…
Opinion: Morrison's tangled web from D-Day to E-day
This article was originally published by The Canberra Times. June 6, 2014 - 70 years on from D-Day. "Go on then," said Andrew Probyn in his familiar patois. I was peering through an…
Opinion: Want to understand how the Coalition works? Take a look at climate policy
By Mark Kenny This article was originally published by The Conversation. This week’s excruciating case of a prime minister being beholden to a rogue section of his own Cabinet over climate…