Mark Kenny
Mark Kenny is Fairfax Media's chief political correspondent. A director of the National Press Club, he regularly appears on the ABC's Insiders, Sky News Agenda, and Ten's Meet the Press. He has reported from Canberra under three prime ministers and several opposition leaders.
Taxing matters as GST takes centre stage again
Mark Kenny Hypersensitivity over the GST dates back to Howard and Costello.
Analysis
GST may be the answer to balancing the books
Mark Kenny Politician after politician has squibbed it, making florid gestures but avoiding serious discussion of the goods and services tax.
Labor sets a booby-trap as it heads for the door
Mark Kenny Gillard and Swan have tried to use this budget to make it as hard as possible for Abbott to enjoy a clean run to the election.
PM will be judged as skilled at policy, but inept at politics
Mark Kenny In just his first 30 days in office, an impatient Gough Whitlam signed off on a vast array of reforms.
Gillard's fine reforms slip between the gap
Mark Kenny The PM's policy record holds up well. It's her political skills that let her down, badly.
Cynical game played at the expense of the disabled
Mark Kenny Around 2 million Australians desperate to see disability insurance become a reality are now caught in a political game of chicken with neither side of politics prepared to unconditionally back...
Triple-F for Labor in convincing voters of budget credibility
Mark Kenny The federal government's political skills are again being exposed as slipshod amid a messy prelude to a pre-election budget.
Gillard's deal on Gonski a case of better late than never
Mark Kenny Things are somehow different way out west.
Abbott can't lose if Labor fiddles with super rules
Mark Kenny Two distinctly different interests are hoping that the Gillard Labor government proceeds with necessary but unpopular tax changes in the superannuation system.
Mark Kenny and Tony Wright
How it all went so horribly wrong for Labor
Mark Kenny and Tony Wright How did the government leave Opposition Leader Tony Abbott in a seemingly unassailable position to waltz into the Lodge in September?
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Labor strains at leash that would tether it to Gillard
Mark Kenny The push by the Labor party to make a change for change's sake is misplaced.
Money makes debate go round
Mark Kenny While much of the world reeled from the banking and related property sector meltdown in 2008-09, swift stimulatory action in Australia, and our good fortune in being a major commodity supplier to...
Two-against-one battle for Gillard
Mark Kenny WHAT word best conveys Labor's leadership dilemma? Profanity aside, not many.
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Blunder after blunder sets Swan up for attack
Mark Kenny Julia Gillard's political troubles went from bad to worse on Thursday as her chief economic salesman first fluffed his lines on possible income tax rises and then quoted the wrong jobless number in...
