Mark Sawyer

Mark Sawyer is a journalist with extensive experience in print and digital media in Sydney, Melbourne and rural Australia.
‘We already have minority government’: It’s an effective spiel for the Teals, but truth counts

‘We already have minority government’: It’s an effective spiel for the Teals, but truth counts

Monique Ryan has joined Simon Holmes a Court and Zoe Daniel in falsely claiming that Australia already has a hung ...
It’s not a carbon tax, says Labor: a scare campaign that shouldn’t work

It’s not a carbon tax, says Labor: a scare campaign that shouldn’t work

The Australian’s front page screams ‘’Labor carbon tax warning’’, that Labor is planning a carbon levy by stealth. ...
Wake in fright. What another election loss would do to Labor

Wake in fright. What another election loss would do to Labor

There is a chance that small-target Labor could lose in 2022, just as big-target Labor lost in 2019. It’s not just ...
Sign up with China, and enjoy the scramble from out of Canberra

Sign up with China, and enjoy the scramble from out of Canberra

The people of the Solomons lost the nation they knew last week. It will become very different as time goes on. And ...
Gladys Liu is an Australian politician. That makes her fair game

Gladys Liu is an Australian politician. That makes her fair game

Labor is running a tough attack ad against Victorian Liberal MP Gladys Liu. The Coalition says the ad is racist. ...
Kiwis steal a march on Australians at Anzac Day in London

Kiwis steal a march on Australians at Anzac Day in London

Bledisloe Cup, likeability of prime minister, pavlova. Australians are becoming used to being upstaged by New ...
Shades of Hanson’s rise in media coverage of Katherine Deves

Shades of Hanson’s rise in media coverage of Katherine Deves

Anything but the most professional standards applied to the reporting of Katherine Deves’ candidacy ultimately ...
Albanese’s Covid diagnosis becomes the great unknown of Election 22

Albanese’s Covid diagnosis becomes the great unknown of Election 22

Anthony Albanese has revealed he has been diagnosed with Covid.
Perfectly presentable Katherine Deves leaves out the tricky bits

Perfectly presentable Katherine Deves leaves out the tricky bits

In a world without social media, even the internet, Katherine Deves might be running the perfect campaign for the ...
Honiara, have we shrunk our credibility on climate risk?

Honiara, have we shrunk our credibility on climate risk?

The Solomon Islands have agreed to a security pact with China. Australia’s cavalier attitude to the concerns of ...
The first rule of doing a deal is to talk about not doing a deal

The first rule of doing a deal is to talk about not doing a deal

Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese have ruled out deals with Greens or independents in the event of a hung ...
Greatest hits aren’t so exciting second time around

Greatest hits aren’t so exciting second time around

Resumption of hostilities after the Easter break and all morning the bulletins had the major parties throwing old ...
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