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Brisbane Times

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The Prime Minister must seize the historical narrative

The Prime Minister must seize the historical narrative
yesterday 4

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

The Prime Minister must seize the historical narrative

The Prime Minister must seize the historical narrative
yesterday 5

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Will it be a case of trickle-down politics between Trump and the Australian opposition?

Will it be a case of trickle-down politics between Trump and the Australian opposition?
26.01.2025 10

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Will it be a case of trickle-down politics between Trump and the Australian opposition?

Will it be a case of trickle-down politics between Trump and the Australian opposition?
26.01.2025 10

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Donald Trump's project to make America hate again

Donald Trump's project to make America hate again
21.01.2025 2

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Donald Trump's project to make America hate again

Donald Trump's project to make America hate again
21.01.2025 6

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Facts, evidence, consistency be damned. This time it's about feeling

Facts, evidence, consistency be damned. This time it's about feeling
19.01.2025 10

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Facts, evidence, consistency be damned. This time it's about feeling

Facts, evidence, consistency be damned. This time it's about feeling
19.01.2025 9

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Facts, evidence, consistency be damned. This time it's about feeling

Facts, evidence, consistency be damned. This time it's about feeling
18.01.2025 5

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Facts, evidence, consistency be damned. This time it's about feeling

Facts, evidence, consistency be damned. This time it's about feeling
18.01.2025 4

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

I'm overcome by a sense of escape and elation. Vincent feels it too

Your bleary-eyed narrator attempts a reciprocally cheery good morning and gratefully orders a take-away long black. Login or signup to continue...

28.12.2024 4

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

I'm overcome by a sense of escape and elation. Vincent feels it too

Your bleary-eyed narrator attempts a reciprocally cheery good morning and gratefully orders a take-away long black. Login or signup to continue...

28.12.2024 2

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Is nuke plan fission or fiction?

There's probably more wattage produced by the ABC's Insiders show on a Sunday morning than will ever be generated by Peter Dutton's seven nuclear...

21.12.2024 10

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Nuclear madness and the vision thing

In a rare confluence of competing interests, both sides of politics have some cause for optimism heading into the new year. Login or signup to...

16.12.2024 5

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Nuclear madness and the vision thing

In a rare confluence of competing interests, both sides of politics have some cause for optimism heading into the new year. Login or signup to...

14.12.2024 4

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Moderate Libs blame voters for their own failings

The most surprising thing about the anger flowing from Liberal moderates after the last election was that there really wasn't any. Login or signup...

07.12.2024 4

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Moderate Libs blame voters for their own failings

The most surprising thing about the anger flowing from Liberal moderates after the last election was that there really wasn't any. Login or signup...

07.12.2024 4

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Albanese facing a new mood of pick and kick

There was an odd atmosphere on Capital Hill on the final scheduled sitting day for 2024. Login or signup to continue reading A taut electric vibe...

30.11.2024 3

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Albanese facing a new mood of pick and kick

There was an odd atmosphere on Capital Hill on the final scheduled sitting day for 2024. Login or signup to continue reading A taut electric vibe...

30.11.2024 2

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Liberal democracy feels exhausted, its globalist promise, betrayed

When Donald Horne finished The Lucky Country, he was barely two decades younger than the new nation he described. Login or signup to continue...

16.11.2024 2

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Liberal democracy feels exhausted, its globalist promise, betrayed

When Donald Horne finished The Lucky Country, he was barely two decades younger than the new nation he described. Login or signup to continue...

16.11.2024 1

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

I got it wrong. But Democrats must admit they can't to speak to average people

One week ago I shared a stage in Canberra with an uber-confident Rory Stewart who insisted Kamala Harris would not only win but win big. Login or...

09.11.2024 4

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

I got it wrong. But Democrats must admit they can't to speak to average people

One week ago I shared a stage in Canberra with an uber-confident Rory Stewart who insisted Kamala Harris would not only win but win big. Login or...

09.11.2024 1

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Hope springs eternal in a disconnected America

Despite the menacing negativity emanating from Donald Trump, we should not lose sight of the very real possibility that the country will elect its...

02.11.2024 1

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Hope springs eternal in a disconnected America

Despite the menacing negativity emanating from Donald Trump, we should not lose sight of the very real possibility that the country will elect its...

02.11.2024 2

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Dutton tests Trumpist approach to politics

In one of their typically literary sketches, 1990s comedy duo Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie asked if Adolf Hitler’s fanatical racist oratory would...

24.10.2024 2

The New Daily

Mark Kenny

Will all these elections actually lead to more democracy?

This year began as the high-water mark for democracy with more than half of the world's people invited to cast a ballot. Login or signup to...

19.10.2024 1

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Will all these elections actually lead to more democracy?

This year began as the high-water mark for democracy with more than half of the world's people invited to cast a ballot. Login or signup to...

19.10.2024 1

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

A spectacular failure on multiple fronts. But most of all it was a tragic betrayal

As it became obvious that the Voice referendum was doomed, advocates of its awkward hybridised model insisted it was now or never. They got both....

12.10.2024 2

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Around the world the gloves are coming off in elections based on fear and loathing

With the world beset by deepening inequality, you might expect the "left" to compose a compelling narrative of reform and renewal. Login or signup...

07.10.2024 1

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Around the world the gloves are coming off in elections based on fear and loathing

With the world beset by deepening inequality, you might expect the "left" to compose a compelling narrative of reform and renewal. Login or signup...

05.10.2024 1

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Walz had a glaring free hit in this debate and he didn't take it

While a performative staple of American election culture played out in a vice-presidential debate, the chief vandal of its norms yearned to be...

02.10.2024 2

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Walz had a glaring free hit in this debate and he didn't take it

While a performative staple of American election culture played out in a vice-presidential debate, the chief vandal of its norms yearned to be...

02.10.2024 8

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Labor is squeezed and needing a big theme for a second term

Maybe it is because their careers can end so summarily that reformist MPs "over-learn" from rejection and often over-correct. Login or signup to...

28.09.2024 1

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Labor is squeezed and needing a big theme for a second term

Maybe it is because their careers can end so summarily that reformist MPs "over-learn" from rejection and often over-correct. Login or signup to...

28.09.2024 1

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Armed to the teeth and terrified: par for the course in the United Hates of America

Assassination, terrifying and unthinkable, is in the air again in the Great Republic. In this campaign, there have been two attempted shootings,...

21.09.2024 1

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Plain speaking about Israel goes from cowardice to complicity

The grim anniversary of Hamas's killing and kidnapping spree in 2023 is just weeks away. Login or signup to continue reading A year of unremitting...

14.09.2024 1

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

We took Morrison over a man with an honest, expansive vision. We're the real losers

Politics is a funny old game in which the smiles can be forced and the loyalties, too loudly professed. Login or signup to continue reading Many...

07.09.2024 2

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

I remember the '90s. Rates stayed too high for too long and the result was ruinous

Wayne Swan invoked terms like "hand-in-glove" to describe how the separate levers of fiscal and monetary policy were being pulled in unison during...

04.09.2024 5

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

The PM can ill-afford bad weeks as narratives harden

Curiosity kills cats but it is cowardice that more often strangles governments - especially social democratic ones in whom hopes start out high....

31.08.2024 2

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

The PM can ill-afford bad weeks as narratives harden

Curiosity kills cats but it is cowardice that more often strangles governments - especially social democratic ones in whom hopes start out high....

31.08.2024 2

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

No risk is too small to avoid for Labor. Just don't call them cowards

Ask any ex-prime minister about mistakes or cowardice in their time and you'll get spirited denial. Login or signup to continue reading The very...

10.08.2024 1

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

No risk is too small to avoid for Labor. Just don't call them cowards

Ask any ex-prime minister about mistakes or cowardice in their time and you'll get spirited denial. Login or signup to continue reading The very...

10.08.2024 1

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Progress looks hopeless, until you take a quick glance back

Kim Beazley has been described as the best prime minister Australia never had, which is a big call if you consider how many brilliant women weren't...

03.08.2024 2

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Progress looks hopeless, until you take a quick glance back

Kim Beazley has been described as the best prime minister Australia never had, which is a big call if you consider how many brilliant women weren't...

03.08.2024 2

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Here's why Trump needs Biden to stay in the race

At the core of the crisis now gripping American politics is a scary truth: neither candidate is treating the presidency seriously. Login or signup...

13.07.2024 1

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny