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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📢 New #DemocracySausage 🌭🎙️ episode out now! What makes an Australian PM succeed, and what leads to their downfall? Historian and biographer Paul Strangio joins @markgkenny.bsky.social to discuss his newly shortlisted book, The Alchemy of Leadership 📕 #auspol 🎧 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

OUT NOW! Treasurer of Australia and ANU Alum, The Hon @jimchalmers.bsky.social, joins @markgkenny.bsky.social and @drdemography.com on #DemocracySausage 🌭🎙️ to unpack the 2026 Intergenerational Report. #auspol 🎧👉 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Imagine how Trump would have conducted himself as President on 9/11

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Catch up on the latest #DemocracySausage 🌭🎙️, where @markgkenny.bsky.social sits down with Three Shocks author, George Megalogenis, to discuss who we're becoming as a nation in the 21st century. 🎧👉 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

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Gil Greening @gilgreen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ooh, this is good too.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

ICYMI, this was indeed an excellent discussion with @auspoldaily.bsky.social . #auspol

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Did the major parties bring the threat of One Nation on themselves?

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Rage against the machine? Just why are people shifting to One Nation and other angry alternatives? It is not what you think. A terrific discussion here. Check it. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/d...

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Hostile complexity

Podcast Episode · Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny · 25 August · 48min

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

All the way with USA but to where? Soon to enter the 7th month of his 4 week war, Trump has made his country visibly weaker and its foreign policy, incoherent.

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Is a policy that students, staff & VCs all say has failed still standing because no one in govt wants to spend the political capital to fix it? Catch the discussion on the latest episode of #DemocracySausage 🌭🎙️. @markgkenny.bsky.social @marijataflaga.bsky.social. 🎧 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Conservatives once railed against the permissive society. As defenders of faith, family and flag, they lamented falling social standards and feared the loss of Judeo-Christian values. Now, their vulgar champions lead the descent

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

#ICYMI, Karen Barlow from @thesaturdaypaper.com.au joined @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social on last week's #DemocracySausage 🌭🎙️ to make sense of Labor's conference of conformity, the Pyongyang PMO, and the rise of One Nation. #auspol 🎧👉 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Labor’s moral turpitude on gambling advertising is depressing. Australia just smashed much larger countries in the Commonwealth Games precisely because we are a sports-mad culture. Our athletes grew up loving & valuing sport for its own brilliance, not crass probabilities and windfalls.

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Labor converted to economic rationalism in the 1980s and 90s but there ain’t many worshippers left in that church. The new religion abhors hands-off incrementalism or what Wayne Swan has called “antiseptic centrism”. And what about the conservatives now being consumed on both flanks…

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

So we live in a world where this is headline news instead of, you know, normal.

“Burnham says he is prepared to call out Trump ‘if right for Britain’.”

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Why has social cohesion — a concept researchers still can't agree how to measure — become one of the most contested ideas in Australian politics? Dr Michael Zekulin chats w/ @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social on the latest #DemocracySausage 🌭🎙️. 🎧👉 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

You say empirical, I say umpirical. Or both actually

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Stephen McDonell @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Love all these restaurants in #Beijing now that look like they’re from #HongKong 1970s movies… #China

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Taylor muscles up to Hanson’s racist populism (finally). Peter Magyar rescues Hungarian honour (and democracy). Pope Leo directly takes on the Musk-Trump squid. US Democrats and UK Labour switching to actual progressives. Glimpses perhaps of a less awful future?

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Ed Coper @edcoper.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Had a great chat about Angertainment with @markgkenny.bsky.social and @marijataflaga.bsky.social on Australia's best #auspol podcast, tune in wherever you usually do that for podcasts

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Is social media now a more powerful force reshaping Australian democracy than any politician, party, or policy? Hear from author of 'Angertainment' @edcoper.bsky.social on the latest ep of #DemocracySausage w/ @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social. 🎧👉 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

And now, a state byelection in Hastie’s federal electorate?

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"Under Peter Dutton, surrendering the cities was always a high-risk strategy. Under Taylor it is several orders of magnitude crazier because the rural-regional base has already slipped from the Coalition." #AUViews 📰 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/opinion... @markgkenny.bsky.social @canberratimes.bsky.social

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Fresh #DemocracySausage is out! 🌭🎙️ @zalisteggall.bsky.social & @allegraspender.bsky.social join @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social to unpack the launch of Community Strong Australia — its logic, its irony, & whether teal voters will get on board. 🎧 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

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Democracy Sausage Episode: Two Teals, One Ticket | Australian Studies Institute

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It seems likely that this will be looked back on as the last chance the once dominant Liberal Party had to defend its liberalism. Yet it refused, appeased, surrendered

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Flattening out modern, diverse Australia. What a dismal, unpatriotic mission.

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The Coalition continues to bowl Nerf balls at One Nation and call it body line. Not hard to see where its real sympathies are

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Presumably, Barnaby Joyce is referring to "gotcha questions" to Pauline Hanson such as: 'What is your policy on [insert almost anything here]?' #auspol

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Elaine 🇦🇺 @netnurse.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Thank you for writing this, and thanks for posting, it’s great. I hope many read it and prepare. Once upon a time this kind of discontent would take five years to get here, now it takes five minutes. I hope we’re ready.

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Foments to remember from a politics of anger

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"If Hanson rates governmental accountability so lowly that even when she could use it to her advantage, she goes missing, imagine her contempt for being answerable herself were she PM." #AUViews #auspol 📰👉 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/opinion... by @markgkenny.bsky.social via @canberratimes.bsky.social

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Fresh #DemocracySausage 🌭🎙️ episode just dropped! Rüçhan Kaya, A/Prof of Political Science @austincollege.bsky.social, joins @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social to discuss the drift towards popularism & nationalism in liberal democratic countries. 🎧👉 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The end game approaches …

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A federal election is two years away but the portents suggest something wild.

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Jo @jo8may.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

An absolute must read from Mark Kenny in which he draws several key dire strands of the dilemmas facing us as a species. The Wake-up calls are starting to come thick and fast now …

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Rescuing American leadership as technology replaces that which is uniquely human & authentic.

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Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

‘Widely repeated claims…consumers don’t want to buy EVs will one day be studied by social historians as a form of collective false consciousness, a distortion created by the culture war fed by large doses of black propaganda by Russian bots & vested interests.’ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/1a99a89...

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The electric car takeover is now unstoppable

While the US applies the brakes, emerging markets race to electrification

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Similar problem in Australia. A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

How/why did the AFL agree to a contest where the uniforms are so close in colours? It really detracts from the spectacle.

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Has the social deficits of broken promises put the government 'on the ropes'? Hear from @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social on the latest episode of #DemocracySausage 🌭🎙️ as they analyse Labor's 'chin-leading' budget. #auspol 🎧👉 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

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tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I’m in the UK at present and the mood is palpable. More of the same is not good enough for a large cohort of people. As in most countries the expectations of people are probably too high to be achievable hence the room for protest groups to force their agenda.

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

As UK Labour has been surprisingly slow to remember, voters elect centre-left parties to undertake economic reform and strengthen social justice. Otherwise, what’s the point of them?

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