Mark Kenny
Canberra Times
Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Past articles by Mark:
Politicising the Reserve Bank? It's a question of how Lowe they'll go
Philip Lowe showed restraint has he was "grilled". Shame MPs can't do the same. → Read More
Mark Kenny | Contempt for women lurks under the racism in the Meghan Markle debacle
Attacks on Meghan by media and others cannot be disentangled from her gender. → Read More
This year's outcomes show ignorance is risk. What's Albanese's excuse?
Over this year, many risks, some dodged, underplayed or ignored, have shifted. → Read More
Mark Kenny | Love and progress, or bad religion?
The revenge of religious zealotry for the crime of modernity is a threat to us all. → Read More
History's slippery progress myth
When it comes to moral progress, the arc of history isn't bending towards justice. → Read More
Britain's cautionary tale for Australia on top-end tax breaks
There are some telling parallels in the Australian and British top-end tax breaks. → Read More
British monarchy pageantry is out of step with modern Australian values
Mark Kenny is The Canberra Times' political analyst and a professor at the ANU's Australian Studies Institute. He is a director of the National Press Club and hosts the Democracy Sausage podcast. He writes a column every Sunday. → Read More
There's a link from Donald Trump's downfall to Nancy Pelosi's ham-fisted trip to Taiwan
Totes AUKUS. America has been some friend to Australia with its Taiwan intervention. → Read More
Xiao Qian offers little to ease fears of a worried West
Despite Xiao's address and nascent ministerial-level talks, tensions between Australia and China are perilous. → Read More
Anthony Albanese, Labor right to backflip on COVID-19 pandemic support
It turns out this governing caper is pretty difficult. Especially in the current circumstances. → Read More
Is Vladimir Putin a fantasist, a Fascist, or modern-day tsar?
Mark Kenny is The Canberra Times' political analyst and a professor at the ANU's Australian Studies Institute. He is a director of the National Press Club and hosts the Democracy Sausage podcast. He writes a column every Sunday. → Read More
Anthony Albanese's government is beset with problems after years of Scott Morrison neglect
Mark Kenny is The Canberra Times' political analyst and a professor at the ANU's Australian Studies Institute. He is a director of the National Press Club and hosts the Democracy Sausage podcast. He writes a column every Sunday. → Read More
Anthony Albanese skirts disaster to take chocolates in first federal election debate
The Labor leader re-energised his claim on the prime ministership, matching his opponent and thus dealing himself back... → Read More
Where was the Prime Minister's plan B when it came to the flood response?
Surely everyone on his team knows responding to disasters - literally and politically - is not the Prime Minister's strong suit (and having COVID doesn't help). → Read More
If Barnaby Joyce is the answer, this must be the question
The whole nation is about to be held hostage to the Nats' intra-coalition identity crisis. → Read More
A Speaker, and an opposition, find their backbones
It's not often a Prime Minister is slapped down like what occurred during question time this afternoon. → Read More
The Liberals get religion, briefly
Morrison and Frydenberg have executed a wholesale repositioning of Coalition policy. But are they true converts? → Read More
Budget 2021: Coalition's shapeshift is the starkest of our post-war politics
This is nothing less than an admission that in the real world, governments do matter. → Read More
Scott Morrison is crab-walking towards climate failure
Within a few months, we will learn if Australia is to be a participant in global problem-solving, or further marginalised as an international pariah. → Read More
Australia's third-rate leaders are failing the climate Test
Ol' Climey has picked up a five-fer and is looking for more as the nation indulges in its favourite scorching-summer pastime. → Read More