Opinion: Sussan Ley must fight hard or go
By Mark KennyA version of this article was originally published by The Canberra Times.Political commentators are quick to say politicians stand for nothing if they choose career advancement…
Opinion: A party beholden to recalcitrants and doomed to fail
By Mark KennyA version of this article was originally published by The Canberra Times.Among the many things absent from the Liberal Party's about-face on net zero was a mea culpa for pushing it…
AuSI welcomes Visiting Fellow: Dr Nathan Fioritti
The ANU Australian Studies Institute (AuSI) is pleased to welcome Dr Nathan Fioritti to the 2025 Visiting Fellowship Program. Dr Nathan Fioritti is an environmental politics scholar whose…
Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: Fifty years on from the Dismissal
In this special live recording from the 2025 Whitlam Symposium, Mark hosts a star-studded panel discussing the 50th anniversary of the Dismissal.Was Sir John Kerr's decision to dismiss Gough Whitlam…
Opinion: Broken America tries 'radical decency'
By Mark KennyA version of this article was originally published by The Canberra Times.For America's shocked and clueless establishment, it has taken almost a decade to find an effective antidote…
Opinion: Embattled Ley eyeing 'Nat-zero' disaster
By Mark KennyA version of this article was originally published by The Canberra Times.With this week's Newspoll recording the Coalition's lowest ever primary support at just 24 per cent, and…
Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: The vista of the new
Political journalist and author Troy Bramston joins Democracy Sausage to discuss his new biography of Gough Whitlam and asks how a government could be so transformative yet so chaotic.How did Whitlam…