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Brisbane Times

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Faith, men, and the terrorist misogyny that won't be named

Lord save us from these churchy politicians and their reflexive nodding to ancient patriarchal dogmas. $0/ (min cost $0) Login or signup to continue...

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Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

We're in an arms race all right. Against ourselves

You can often smell the zeal emanating from Labor Party defence ministers who feel an added responsibility to show they understand the perils over the...

17.04.2024 7

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

The risks in Peter Dutton's right-wing lurch

Hugo Weaving made a rare intervention into politics last week by observing that we don't openly talk about the Israel-Palestine war in this country. ...

13.04.2024 10

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

The risks in Peter Dutton's right-wing lurch

Hugo Weaving made a rare intervention into politics last week by observing that we don't openly talk about the Israel-Palestine war in this country. ...

13.04.2024 10

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Why moving to the right could be wrong for Dutton and the Coalition

Given the damage to the Liberal “brand” in recent years, the opposition leader faces an arduous task in clawing back seats or winning new ones.

10.04.2024 10

The Conversation

Mark Kenny

An act of cowardice would have been maintaining status quo

Amid the cruelty and suffering in Gaza at present, there is also genuine bravery as Israeli hostages cling to life after six gruelling months and as...

10.04.2024 8

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Israel finally gets some plain speaking

Six months ago today, Hamas launched an appalling attack resulting in the deadliest single day for Jews since the Holocaust. It was also their...

06.04.2024 8

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Israel finally gets some plain speaking

Six months ago today, Hamas launched an appalling attack resulting in the deadliest single day for Jews since the Holocaust. It was also their...

06.04.2024 8

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Liberals winning the race to oblivion

Last weekend, electors in the seat once held by the reforming South Australian Labor premier Don Dunstan, showed his name could still shape history. ...

01.04.2024 5

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Liberals winning the race to oblivion

Last weekend, electors in the seat once held by the reforming South Australian Labor premier Don Dunstan, showed his name could still shape history. ...

31.03.2024 5

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Why is Australia's media playing into Trump's delusions?

In physics, the centre of a black hole is where the rules governing the universe cease to operate. This is the singularity from which even light does...

23.03.2024 8

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Why is Australia's media playing into Trump's delusions?

In physics, the centre of a black hole is where the rules governing the universe cease to operate. This is the singularity from which even light does...

23.03.2024 7

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Friend and foe alike are realising one thing about the US

Heartening though it was on Friday to see Australia jump before the US to uncork $6 million worth of aid pledged to the United Nations Relief Works...

16.03.2024 9

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Friend and foe alike are realising one thing about the US

Heartening though it was on Friday to see Australia jump before the US to uncork $6 million worth of aid pledged to the United Nations Relief Works...

16.03.2024 7

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Imaginative policy and debate as Australia gears up for meaty 2025 election

Have you noticed, amid the "can't look away" horror of America's presidential race, how little actual policy gets aired? $0/ (min cost $0) Login or...

09.03.2024 10

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Imaginative policy and debate as Australia gears up for meaty 2025 election

Have you noticed, amid the "can't look away" horror of America's presidential race, how little actual policy gets aired? $0/ (min cost $0) Login or...

09.03.2024 9

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

A megalomaniac making threats, the West dithering. There's a 1938 vibe about this

Vladimir Putin, 71, will secure another six-year term as president in a fortnight, extending his iron grip until 2030. $0/ (min cost $0) Login or...

03.03.2024 10

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

A megalomaniac making threats, the West dithering. There's a 1938 vibe about this

Vladimir Putin, 71, will secure another six-year term as president in a fortnight, extending his iron grip until 2030. $0/ (min cost $0) Login or...

02.03.2024 10

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

A megalomaniac making threats, the West dithering. There's a 1938 vibe about this

Vladimir Putin, 71, will secure another six-year term as president in a fortnight, extending his iron grip until 2030. $0/ (min cost $0) Login or...

02.03.2024 8

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

The cruel double-standard and macabre contradiction of UFC

Australia's journey from an atmosphere of outright fear to "living with COVID" demonstrates our facility for culturally re-interpreting risk. $0/...

24.02.2024 8

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

The cruel double-standard and macabre contradiction of UFC

Australia's journey from an atmosphere of outright fear to "living with COVID" demonstrates our facility for culturally re-interpreting risk. $0/...

24.02.2024 7

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

The West's flimsy values are showing

The war in Ukraine will be two years old later this week. Though it might as well be turning 10, so clearly has it slipped down the news bulletins. ...

17.02.2024 4

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

The West's flimsy values are showing

The war in Ukraine will be two years old later this week. Though it might as well be turning 10, so clearly has it slipped down the news bulletins. ...

17.02.2024 10

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

How Trump could shape our election

Three times last week I was asked to discuss on radio the growing chances of an early federal election. Just days before, most media had been certain...

10.02.2024 7

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Grandstanding Dutton inadvertently does us a favour

Along with Tony Abbott, Peter Dutton was a conspicuous no-show from episode one of Nemesis, the ABC's latest addition to the occasional series started...

03.02.2024 10

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Grandstanding Dutton inadvertently does us a favour

Along with Tony Abbott, Peter Dutton was a conspicuous no-show from episode one of Nemesis, the ABC's latest addition to the occasional series started...

03.02.2024 9

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Breaking bad: The PM's dud policy dilemma

It takes a special kind of dogmatism to blindly insist that $107 billion worth of new spending over the forward estimates must be disbursed as...

27.01.2024 9

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Few to mourn the loss of a truly pointless PM, Scott Morrison

To paraphrase Donald Horne, Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who go off to the defence sector. Or finance. $1/ (min cost...

23.01.2024 4

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Few to mourn the loss of a truly pointless PM, Scott Morrison

To paraphrase Donald Horne, Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who go off to the defence sector. Or finance. $1/ (min cost...

23.01.2024 8

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

The common factor in all this violence? Men. Here's how we can turn it around

A common conclusion among writers at the end of 2023 was that the world was heading to hell in a handcart. $1/ (min cost $8) Login or signup to...

20.01.2024 7

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Elections-a-plenty amid democratic decline

Donald Trump promised to drain the swamp and Scott Morrison decried the Canberra bubble. Each paraded as democratic while concentrating power. Trump,...

25.12.2023 7

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Elections-a-plenty amid democratic decline

Donald Trump promised to drain the swamp and Scott Morrison decried the Canberra bubble. Each paraded as democratic while concentrating power. Trump,...

23.12.2023 10

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Australia in better shape than most this year

As a tough year finds its denouement, there may still be reasons to give thanks - if only for who we are not. True, it was the year we squandered an...

16.12.2023 7

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Australia in better shape than most this year

As a tough year finds its denouement, there may still be reasons to give thanks - if only for who we are not. True, it was the year we squandered an...

16.12.2023 7

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

You can't be selective. You're either against racism, or you're not

I have walked among the plinths of Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, and I've viewed the piles of shoes and school books in...

09.12.2023 8

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

You can't be selective. You're either against racism, or you're not

I have walked among the plinths of Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, and I've viewed the piles of shoes and school books in...

09.12.2023 7

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

The problem of mid-term politics

I remember a remark delivered with a wry grin by a senior figure close to the last Labor government: "What if they're just not very good?" Could it...

02.12.2023 10

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

An Australian Thanksgiving for multiculturalism?

"So, is 12,000 deaths a price worth paying," our host replied to a view that Israel must now see it through. "And if 12,000 deaths is acceptable, at...

25.11.2023 7

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Dutton's deep division delivered by design

Recent months have been rather clarifying for modern Australia. They have revealed how far we have progressed from the bigoted attitudes of the past....

18.11.2023 9

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Dutton's deep division delivered by design

Recent months have been rather clarifying for modern Australia. They have revealed how far we have progressed from the bigoted attitudes of the past....

18.11.2023 9

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Pulp Fiction or bland ambition? Seselja's Senate push

"Whose chopper (Senate spot) is this? "It's Zed's. "Who's Zed? "Zed's dead, baby." Perhaps this is what Zed Seselja has concluded also? That is, that...

16.11.2023 4

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Halfway through their term, the ‘teal’ MPs look here to stay – and may present a huge challenge in 2025

Halfway through the 47th federal parliament, we can begin cautiously to gauge the potential historical significance of the “teal” independents....

12.11.2023 8

The Conversation

Mark Kenny

What the Chinese really think about Australian resolve

The top foreign students from greater China finishing their higher degree courses at Australian universities will be honoured in the capital later...

11.11.2023 8

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

America and the Arab world offer best hope of peace

Most would be familiar with Maslow's pyramid table setting out the hierarchy of human needs. He theorised that, in order to survive, human beings...

04.11.2023 7

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Pious lecturing and hypocrisy wears thin in an increasingly unstable world

The most shocking thing about the selection of a homophobic House Speaker in DC, was not how long it took, nor even the three weeks of anarchy...

28.10.2023 3

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Pious lecturing and hypocrisy wears thin in an increasingly unstable world

The most shocking thing about the selection of a homophobic House Speaker in DC, was not how long it took, nor even the three weeks of anarchy...

28.10.2023 4

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Pious lecturing and hypocrisy wears thins in an increasingly unstable world

The most shocking thing about the selection of a homophobic House Speaker in DC, was not how long it took, nor even the three weeks of anarchy...

28.10.2023 5

The Examiner

Mark Kenny

Pious lecturing and hypocrisy wears thins in an increasingly unstable world

The most shocking thing about the selection of a homophobic House Speaker in DC, was not how long it took, nor even the three weeks of anarchy...

28.10.2023 5

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

The West is weakening its own principles in Gaza

Hamas cannot continue to exist, explained the Israeli spokesperson, because it does not believe in the two-state solution. This is the justification...

21.10.2023 7

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

Divide and prosper: Emphatic rejection gives clear view into future

If Labor's slim 2022 election majority was a finely scalpelled resection of the electorate, Saturday's Voice referendum defeat was more of a blunt...

15.10.2023 3

Canberra Times

Mark Kenny

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