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Mark Kenny

@markgkenny.bsky.social
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Broadcast commentator. Democracy Sausage podcast. Director, Australian Studies Institute, ANU. Ex-Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, ABC RN. Columnist, The Canberra Times. 2025-26 FASIC Australia-in-China Fellow. Multiculturalist. Schnauzer-aligned.

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 23h
Trump cannot understand Zelenskyy because Zelenskyy thinks being rich & powerful are less important than defying an invader & his saving his country. To Trump this is pig-headed, stupid. To Ukrainians, & non-sociopaths everywhere, it is simple patriotism. It is what any real leader would do.
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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Check it!
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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 · 15/09/2026
A New Book Seeks to Shame the Elites Who Caved to Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...
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Opinion | They Could Afford to Stand Up to Trump. Why Didn’t They?
The more the logic of capitalism pervades the rest of life, the less room there is for compassion, honor or heroism.
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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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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
American poet Wendell Berry (1934-2026)
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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ease up. Let’s leave the ad hominem to the fanatics on X
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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
True. Observedly so.
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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thank you!
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Gil Greening @gilgreen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Ooh, this is good too.
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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Thanks Simon!
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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 · 24/08/2026
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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
What a fantastic performance.
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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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Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
👇 @markgkenny.bsky.social CT.
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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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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I preferred ‘accordingly’
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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
Thank you. Important to be positive when possible.
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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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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Umpire said play on! Then penalises Carlton for … playing on
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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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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Great information here. Worth a listen.
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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
Thank you. That is a very kind observation.
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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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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This umpiring
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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Thanks David.
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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
app.canberratimes.com.au/story/929433...
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Hanson channelled Trump and the media complied
We did learn some things though from the garbled grab-bag of slogans and slights.
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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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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
That’s a very good point Elaine
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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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