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.
Trouble brews in the now half-full glasses of Labor's eternal pessimists
Mark Kenny Gary Gray is probably not the first frontbencher you would choose to channel Comical Ali – Saddam's insanely optimistic information minister who insisted victory was assured even as Baghdad...
Labor's electoral fortunes rest on a turn
Mark Kenny Julia Gillard remains resolute, determined to lead the government into the September election despite voter sentiment portending an electoral bloodbath, and despite a flurry of speculation both...
Gillard standing firm but her fate rests with unions
Mark Kenny Julia Gillard remains resolute, determined to lead the government into the election despite voter sentiment portending an electoral bloodbath, and despite a flurry of speculation both inside the...
Freelancing the Labor Party boil
Mark Kenny Doug Cameron is not one to take backward steps and wasn't doing so on Wednesday.
Spin triers won't wash, say Labor plain speakers
Mark Kenny Doug Cameron isn't one to take backward steps and he wasn't doing so on Wednesday morning when he made repeated media appearances variously explaining, justifying, and validating, what looked like a...
Labor's poll timing is a time for prayer all round
Mark Kenny Julia Gillard was wise to avoid a clash with those great secular festivals, the AFL and NRL grand finals, when setting the election for September 14.
Gillard could face her own day of atonement
Mark Kenny Business is cutting jobs, and the PM may pay the price.
Taxing matters as GST takes centre stage again
Mark Kenny Hypersensitivity over the GST dates back to Howard and Costello.
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.
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.
Abbott plays smart but timid politics on IR
Mark Kenny Like a man running along the wrong side of the river, Tony Abbott needed to cross the industrial relations bridge at some point on his journey to election 2013, yet his reluctance has been all too...
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.
Gillard's deal on Gonski a case of better late than never
Mark Kenny Things are somehow different way out west.
PM should junk playbook in hunt for silver linings
Mark Kenny Setting the election date eight months in advance represented a calculated risk for Julia Gillard. So far, it has not worked.
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.
Back from the brink
Mark Kenny Prime Minister Julia Gillard faces an uphill battle rebuilding her party's shattered brand after Labor's crippling leadership crisis ended in farce on Thursday with a party-room spill devoid of a...
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?
Simply put, Gillard is indestructible
Mark Kenny Whenever American voters are asked to name the qualities they most value in their political representatives, having a strong leader comes out as most important.
