Mark Riley

Mark Riley’s career began in 1979 as a cadet journalist on the Newcastle Herald, first tackling the shipping news and social rounds, working his way up the ranks to become Chief of Staff on the day of the 1989 Newcastle earthquake. Mark has won a number of awards for his journalism, including the Paul Lyneham Award for Excellence in Press Gallery Journalism and a Walkley Award for his collection articles and opinion pieces in The West Australian.

Recent articles by Mark Riley

MARK RILEY: Labor’s plan to tackle cost-of-living settles a long-running debate. Our inflation problem is indeed homegrown.

Australia’s inflation problem is homegrown after all

MARK RILEY: Labor’s plan to tackle cost-of-living settles a long-running debate. Our inflation problem is indeed homegrown.

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MARK RILEY: Why Anthony Albanese’s big smile was wiped from his face on his WA visit

Why Albo’s big smile was wiped from his face on his WA visit

MARK RILEY: Anthony Albanese was wearing a big smile as he presented himself at Perth’s Kings Park on Wednesday morning on his latest whirlwind visit to the west. But it didn’t last long...

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MARK RILEY: In Kevin Rudd, Scott Morrison has found a surprising candidate to launch his new book to the US market.

Why two old political enemies put their differences aside

MARK RILEY: In Kevin Rudd, Scott Morrison has found a surprising candidate to launch his new book to the US market.

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Ninette Simons and Philip Simons speak out after the shocking home invasion at their Girrawheen home.

Bash victim Ninette the face of political & systemic failure

MARK RILEY: Perth grandmother Ninette Simons’ injuries are difficult to look at. But every legislator in Australia should take time today to make a long and deep examination of her confronting image.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Papua New Guineawith PNG PM James Marape.

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Albo’s Kokoda Track trek a reminder of nations’ sacred bond

MARK RILEY: A fallen tree trunk halfway up a vertiginous mountain in the crippling humidity of the PNG jungle turns out to be the perfect place to engage in a bit of a deep and meaningful with two PMs.

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MARK RILEY: Anthony Albanese’s Kokodo Track journey will see a new generation of Australian and PNG leaders walk shoulder to shoulder.

Why Albanese’s Kokoda Track journey is so important

MARK RILEY: Anthony Albanese’s Kokoda Track journey will see a new generation of Australian and PNG leaders walk shoulder to shoulder.

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MARK RILEY: An old Chinese proverb came to mind this week as the Federal Government made significant announcements on defence and the economy that both had obvious Beijing bearings.

Can Australia get its fish and keep clear of the bear’s paw?

MARK RILEY: An old Chinese proverb came to mind this week as the Federal Government made significant announcements on defence and the economy that both had obvious Beijing bearings.

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The claims of a government cover-up by Brittany Higgins have been found by a civil court to have no substance, writes Mark Riley.

Higgins cover-up claim was bad for ScoMo. But it wasn’t true

Claims of a conspiracy to hide Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations were political TNT for the Coalition. But they weren’t true, writes Mark Riley.

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MARK RILEY: Yesterday, Anthony Albanese laid out a new vision. It is one of an Australia that makes things. And not just any things.

PM is eyeing a future in which Australia is a maker of stuff

MARK RILEY: Yesterday, Anthony Albanese laid out a new vision. It is one of an Australia that makes things. And not just any things...

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MARK RILEY: Why politics is now in a parallel universe

MARK RILEY: The supermarket brawl has Labor defending capitalist principles and the Coalition arguing for ‘Soviet-style’ intervention. It’s like a parallel universe.

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Anthony Albanese is finding himself in difficult territory when it comes to supermarkets.

MARK RILEY: Albo facing some serious strife on supermarkets

With the Coalition looking to support a Greens Bill to ‘smash up supermarkets’, Anthony Albanese finds himself in some uncomfortable company.

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China’s trade war is cooling down. But Penny Wong insists mutual concessions aren’t transactional

MARK RILEY: Wong earned respect with strength and commitment

Delivering the Whitlam Oration in 2022, Penny Wong gave the first outline of the new Government’s position on China, which included this: ‘We will seek to co-operate where we can and disagree where we must’.

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Anthony Albanese’s senior ministers will be sweating on the outcome of the latest immigration detention case to come to the High Court.

Why every Albanese minister is stressing about this ONE case

Senior ministers within the Albanese Government are deeply concerned they are about to lose a significant power battle.

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Behind the scenes: Labor’s latest chapter in detention saga.

Behind the scenes: Labor’s latest chapter in detention saga

Labor’s immigration minister was worried. Lots of legal challenges by advocates of detained asylum seekers concerned him. It was only a matter of time before a court ruled their indefinite detention illegal.

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Aged care politics just keep getting more ridiculous.

Aged care needs help ASAP . . . so nothing will happen fast

Aged Care Minister Anika Wells has spent months considering a report from a task force chaired . . . by herself. Welcome to politics in Australia where absolutely nothing is ever 'urgent‘.

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