Jacqui Lambie mixes battler politics with populism to make her swing vote count
By Mark Kenny This article was originally published by The Conversation. In the hit biopic Rocket Man, the ambitious young Reginald Dwight is counselled to hide his working-class roots if he…
ANU scholar takes climate change message to the UN
ANU Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow and Australian Studies Institute Advisory Board Member and Research Associate, Dr Virginia Marshall, has just returned from Mexico City where she attended the UN…
Government, not police, must set the democratic tone
By Mark Kenny In comedy, timing is crucial. But timing is critical in politics also, where the confluence of events or announcements, whether intentional or accidental, can have a major impact on…
ANU College of Law to host leading expert on cultural rights
Incoming Australia and the World Visiting Fellow, Professor Alison Dundes Renteln, says ANU will be the ideal place for her to do research on international law topics that relate to cultural rights.…
Bills, banks and promises: here’s what you can expect as ‘government business’ starts again
By Mark Kenny This article was originally published by The Conversation. If the first week of the 46th Parliament was heavily ceremonial – dominated by the new governor-general, a raft of first…
Q&A: Senior Fellow Mark Kenny
Why did the journalist cross the lake? Q&A: Senior Fellow Mark Kenny Former political journalist Mark Kenny has become a Senior Fellow at the Australian Studies Institute. But he still goes to…
Opinion: The breakthrough issue that could define Morrison's legacy
By Mark Kenny This article was originally published by The Canberra Times. Who would have thought that the elusive goal of reconciliation would emerge as a prospective consensus project for a…