Dennis Atkins
Dennis Atkins: For Scott Morrison, currying favour with voters just isn’t working
During an election campaign debate between Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott in 2013, the ever-talkative incumbent prime minister delivered a programmatically specific...
Australian politics made a complete fool of itself in 2021, and there’s more fun on the way
Parliament has embarrassed itself to a standstill, politics in Australia has plumbed never-imagined depths of degradation and dishonour, and what passes for...
A day like no other, 20 years on – inside Washington’s corridors of power on 9/11
Waiting for John Howard to return from an early morning power walk in Washington, D.C., on a clear September morning 20 years...
Dennis Atkins: Scott Morrison will weaponise climate crisis in pursuit of re-election
Two pieces of the modern political scene demonstrate the wilful cognitive dissonance in Canberra. One highlights the enormity of the crisis the...
Dennis Atkins: As Scott Morrison tries to ‘get out of Dodge’, Australia needs a political reckoning
Has it come to this? A prosperous and generous country finds itself led by someone who has clustered a completely avoidable, expensive...
Dennis Atkins: Labor’s electioneering backflips came too late to woo wary voters
It’s hard to imagine circumstances in which the federal Labor Party could have made a greater hash of its high altitude, tax...
Dennis Atkins: From character to competence, ‘Scotty from Marketing’ is in a world of pain
The competence a politician has and displays is the Bitcoin of the modern business. If you’re competent enough and present as such,...
Will Scott Morrison risk an early election? Dennis Atkins weighs the pros and cons
On a scale of one to the most brazen political stunt ever, Peter Beattie’s bold election campaign pitch in early 2001 was...
Premiers and a ‘shape-shifting’ PM take a beating in Coronavirus battle
It feels like these last two weeks have marked a serious inflection point in the progression of Australia’s pandemic experience. To be...
Dennis Atkins: Why Palaszczuk went postal and dropped a bomb on Scott Morrison
The political pathology of Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Scott Morrison flameout this week can be found in last year’s Queensland state election. Morrison, ever...