Mark Kenny

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.

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 dinkus

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

Prime Minister Julia Gillard

Mark Kenny The PM's policy record holds up well. It's her political skills that let her down, badly.

Comments 681

Cynical game played at the expense of the disabled

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott

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...

Comments 392

Abbott can't lose if Labor fiddles with super rules

x

Mark Kenny Two distinctly different interests are hoping that the Gillard Labor government proceeds with necessary but unpopular tax changes in the superannuation system.

Comments 577

Back from the brink

Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.

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...

Comments 129

Mark Kenny and Tony Wright

How it all went so horribly wrong for Labor

Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.

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?

Mark Kenny

Blunder after blunder sets Swan up for attack

Treasurer Wayne Swan

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...

Comments 433