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Patrick Keneally

@patrickkeneally.bsky.social
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Deputy editor, Guardian Australia

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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?
Headline of news article saying: Australian lawyer faces fresh charges for unpaid dining bills (at Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong)
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could you didn't stop to think if you should - Jurassic Park quote Dr Malcolm
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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
What a cheery way of thinking about journalism. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
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News Corp is essentially an AI ‘input company’, chief executive says, after US$150m deal with Meta
Chief executive Robert Thomson says he often speaks to both OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
#Newspoll 55-45 to ALP
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Sometimes I think the SMH money section is just trolling me
Should I buy a Lambo with my inheritance?
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Prof Jenny Hocking @palaceletters.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Prof Julianne Schultz's powerful reflection on the horrific Bondi attack and its fraught political aftermath: 'a targeted killing of Jewish Australians and an attack on the very idea of the nation as an inclusive society of fairness and tolerance' #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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At the Bondi vigil, Pauline and Barnaby turned tragedy into opportunism. It is inexcusable | Julianne Schultz
Hanson has done more than any other politician to foster division in Australia. Her words to mourners after the horrific attack ring hollow
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 08/12/2025
cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
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Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm - by @readfearn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm
One expert says he is ‘starting to visualise the point where all we have left of corals and reefs is memories’
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Great novel - a well deserved win! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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Siang Lu wins Miles Franklin award for Ghost Cities, ‘a genuine landmark in Australian literature’
Author, who takes home $60,000, says finding out he won Australia’s most esteemed literary prize left him ‘in such shock that I lost all feeling in my hands and legs’
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Part of the reason that China has been able to dominate global supplies of rare earths at competitive prices is because, as well as being rich in natural resources, it has also been willing to let poor, rural people bear the brunt of the toxic, dirty work, writes Amy Hawkins
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The world wants China’s rare earth elements – what is life like in the city that produces them?
More than 80% of China’s rare earth reserves are located in Baotou, an industrial hub of 2.7 million people that abuts the Gobi desert
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We are looking for a general news reporter to come and work at Guardian Australia - please share with anyone who might be interested: workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/736
workforus.theguardian.com
The Guardian :: Reporter
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This is very good from (ANU History Prof) Frank.
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Bolt: Am I out of touch? No, it's the Australian electorate who are wrong www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion...
No, the voters aren't always right. This time they were wrong.
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Exclusive: Trump campaign chief claims he visited Australia to advise Liberals at start of election campaign
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Trump campaign chief claims he visited Australia to advise Liberals at start of election campaign
Exclusive: Chris LaCivita, Trump’s presidential campaign co-manager, tells undercover reporters he advised on ‘structural issues’ related to Peter Dutton; the Coalition denies LaCivita was involved in...
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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I don't usually post about things because, like opinion polls, they can go up and down, but this result for @australia.theguardian.com is pretty amazing. Fourth most reads news site in the country. Such a credit to the entire team. Thank you to our readers and supporters. 👏
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🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green · 21/04/2025
so they're mycoblogging
Headline that says mushrooms may talk to one another with up to 50 words
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Miles P Herbert @milespherbert.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The climate has been conspicuously absent from the conversations dominating our politics. @nourhaydar.bsky.social , @adammorton.bsky.social , and @patrickkeneally.bsky.social jumped on the microphones this week and tried to change that:
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Newsroom edition: the climate crisis has disappeared from the election agenda - podcast
Nour Haydar talks with deputy editor Patrick Keneally and climate and environment editor Adam Morton about the consequences of climate action fading from the election campaign
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It’s 2075 and somewhere deep in the forests of kangaroo island an elite band of dachshund hunters are at last closing in on their target
yahoo news headline that reads … Creature’s ’haunting’ cry heard on Aussie island for first time in 50 years
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Jane Lytvynenko @janelytv.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
JD Vance's cousin is fighting as a volunteer in Ukraine. "We are the useful idiots of Vladimir Putin," he told Le Figaro about Trump and Vance's position. www.lefigaro.fr/internationa...
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«Nous sommes les idiots utiles de Vladimir Poutine» : Nate, cousin germain de JD Vance et combattant volontaire en Ukraine
EXCLUSIF - Le Texan a passé trois ans en Ukraine, dont deux et demi à se battre sur les fronts les plus sanglants. Il désespère de la position de son cousin et de Donald Trump.
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I know it's still a long time until Christmas but I already know what I want
Holden Commodore Garage Clock - Rev up each hour with the Commodore!
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Great piece from Ben Doherty on Aukus and why the Virginia class subs may never be delivered to Australia: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Surface tension: could the promised Aukus nuclear submarines simply never be handed over to Australia?
The multi-billion dollar deal was heralded as ensuring the security of the Indo-Pacific. But with America an increasingly unreliable ally, doubts are rising above the waves
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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
A thought - when someone says 'you can't run an economy the size of Australia on renewable energy' they could be asked to back that up, given it has become a point of political debate and there are people/government agencies who have done a lot of work in the area who disagree.
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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
As per usual things are totally normal and fine in Australia www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Man finds 102 red-bellied black snakes in a single mulch pile in western Sydney – video
During summer it can be common for some females to congregate and share the same birthing site
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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
and we are also seeking an Economics correspondent fa-euxy-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Economics correspondent
We are seeking an Economics correspondent to join The Guardian’s Editorial team to generate news stories, including exclusives and investigations, multimedia and analysis on Australian economic matter...
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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Two great jobs to be had at @australia.theguardian.com Chief political correspondent fa-euxy-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Chief political correspondent
We are seeking a Chief political correspondent to join The Guardian’s Editorial team to produce timely, accurate and insightful coverage of political developments, breaking original, agenda-setting st...
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 08/01/2025
Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Once upon a time the Coalition had a "Dutton problem" in Victoria, and lost the Aston by-election there. Now in aggregated state level federal polling (such as such is) the 2PP swing against Labor there is more than double any other mainland state. www.pollbludger.net/2025/01/07/b...
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 07/01/2025
Australia has a big car problem. The majority of new vehicles sold in 2024 were SUVs, with sales increasing from 2023 #auspol Australia's tax system, "encourages the purchase of these behemoths to the detriment of our roads, our safety & the #climate." 🧵
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Tony Abbott blames the "leftist establishment" for "thwarting" his government and that of fellow conservatives around the Anglosphere but the truth is the only one to blame for his government's downfall was Abbott himself www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Sorry Tony, but the only person you have to blame for being booted out of office is yourself | Malcolm Farr
Politicians blaming other elements of government for their own failures is wrong – and bad for democracy
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
A huge barred owl flew down a Virginia family’s chimney, knocked over the star on top of their Christmas tree, and perched himself on top www.wusa9.com/article/life...
An owl stares into the camera from atop a family’s Christmas tree An owl perched on top of a Christmas tree inside a Virginia home
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Almost invisible. Can you see the koala? This is how well they can blend in with the environment. At Sleaford Bay, Eyre Peninsula.
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Coalition ‘not serious’ about nuclear policy and Dutton’s plan is ‘political fix’, Matt Canavan says www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Coalition ‘not serious’ about nuclear policy and Dutton’s plan is ‘political fix’, Matt Canavan says
Nationals senator questions his own party’s policy, saying ‘all sides of politics are deciding their energy based on focus group’
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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
‘Increasingly worried’: more than a quarter of a million waterbirds disappear from eastern Australia - by @donnadlu.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘Increasingly worried’: more than a quarter of a million waterbirds disappear from eastern Australia
One of the world’s longest continuous bird counts has dashed the ‘wistful optimism’ of scientists hoping for a La Niña-driven recovery
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
lol - congrats to the News Corp journo who secured an interview with the boss of News Corp so that he could deny they were working to elect Dutton
Clipping that reads ... But in an exclusive interview with the Australian, Mr Miller said Mr Albanese's criticism of News Corp was "wrong"
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I would have thought eggs were more 'viscous' than avocado but what do I know?
News.com.au headline saying 'Insane' price of avo on toast exposes 'viscous' Aussie cash cycle
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Too hot to even stay in the kitchen in case there’s some food windfalls
Black Labrador looking very tired and hot lying on a deck
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Gabrielle Jackson @gabriellecj.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Never mind that the Coalition’s nuclear proposal is a fantasy – it doesn’t even claim to reduce power bills - by @adammorton.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Never mind that the Coalition’s nuclear proposal is a fantasy – it doesn’t even claim to reduce power bills
Experts and agencies have overwhelmingly deemed the plan not to be credible. And burning more coal and gas in the medium term only leads one way
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Maybe James Cleverley was onto something when he said the UK Conservatives should "be more normal" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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'I will not touch bread if it is moist': Kemi Badenoch sparks Westminster food fight
Starmer says he prefers a toastie over steak after Badenoch claims ‘lunch is for wimps’ and sandwiches are not ‘a real food’
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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Maps reveal protected Tasmanian native forest that could be open to logging, activists say www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Maps reveal parts of protected Tasmanian native forest that could be opened to logging, environmentalists say
Mapping based on documents released under right-to-information laws show proposed areas include habitats for 37 threatened species
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
guys. there was a whole movie about this.
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Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I am always amazed where these red Barron relics appear in Australia. This one is in the Kempsey museum #plunder #heritage #WWI
Part of red barons Focker DR1 in community Museum in Kempsey
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Only 2.6% of Indigenous people found with small quantities of illegal drugs were diverted from the criminal justice system in NSW despite pledges by Minns govt for reform www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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More than 90% of people caught with small amounts of illicit drugs criminalised in NSW despite diversion reforms
Exclusive: Police used discretion to divert just 6.9% of people caught with personal use quantities of drugs from criminal justice system, data shows
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Patrick Keneally @patrickkeneally.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Lovely story from Mostafa Rachwani about Auburn North public school, which outperforms others despite English not being the first language for 98% of students www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘They leave our school flying’: how one Sydney school is defying its ‘disadvantage’
Auburn North public school outperforms others despite English not being the first language for 98% of students
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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
you can drive without brakes if you want, there's nothing stopping you
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Miles P Herbert @milespherbert.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
@bridie.bsky.social with some usual suspects, @miketicher.bsky.social and @patrickkeneally.bsky.social on the heat, and the last few days of familiar and disappointing climate politics:
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Newsroom edition: do voters still care about the climate during a cost-of-living crisis? - podcast
Bridie Jabour talks to Mike Ticher and Patrick Keneally about the challenges the Labor government faces
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