#AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️ Historian @frankbongiorno.bsky.social joins @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social to dissect the Liberal Party's existential crisis and asks whether Australia's 'natural party of government' is heading for collapse. 🎧 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/latest-....

What do we want? An uninterrupted, uniquely Australian and historically significant stream of literary consciousness. When do we want it? Now. Protest against the closure of Meanjin. 9am, MUP Swanston St.

'All quiet in the ambition factory' would have been ideal.

📣We are pleased to share that our Director, Prof @markgkenny.bsky.social, has been appointed the inaugural Australia in China Fellow.👏 Mark will visit China later this year to deliver public lectures and participate in academic & cultural exchange activities. 👉 fasic.org.au/Newsite/inde....

I tossed around various headline ideas for this piece, ie: “No raucous in this caucus” or “All quiet in the ambition factory”. Who would have thought the largest ever Labor backbench would turn out to have its smallest voice.

"Recent controversies suggest a government committing only to what it must while facing almost no internal pressure to aim higher or act faster." #AUViews Read Now ausi.anu.edu.au/news/opinion... by @markgkenny.bsky.social via @canberratimes.bsky.social.

+ listen to this cogent conversation between @markgkenny.bsky.social & @richarddenniss.bsky.social reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/...

Just in time for your commute home! @richarddenniss.bsky.social and @markgkenny.bsky.social dig into the relationship between policy, evidence and politics in the latest episode of Democracy Sausage.

Absolutely 👍. Loads pithy political home-truths voters need to hear: eg: 21min - MK on 'post office honesty'; RD: 'don't want to wait 10y to read (polies) autobio to discover (they) agreed with me all along'. @richarddenniss.bsky.social @markgkenny.bsky.social reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/...

Because obviously the most significant aspect of this story is whatever utterly predictable commentary is offered by the Israeli ambassador.

Srsly what would 400 scholars of genocide and Holocaust studies know about genocide

#ICYMI On the latest #DemocracySausage ep🎙️Professor John Blaxland joins @markgkenny.bsky.social and @marijataflaga.bsky.social to discuss the tone in new parliament, the US-Australia relationship and AUKUS. #AUListen 🎧 bit.ly/40wZ1MV.

I concur.

On the latest #DemocracySausage ep🎙️historian @frankbongiorno.bsky.social joins @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social to unpack the current political environment and discuss how you cannot stand still in response to uncertainty. #auspol #AUListen 🎧 bit.ly/3THTz5Z.

A straightforward recitation of the Trump administration sounds completely deranged and implausible. Australian journalist Mark Kenny bsky.app/profile/mark...

"My prediction is that #AUKUS will be one of the *great* defence debacles, in terms of cost blowouts, and so-called deliverables. And strategic risks: it's meant to deliver security, but potentially makes Australian bases targets in a war." @markgkenny.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/p...

What happened at the 2025 election? When did the race turn in Labor's favour, and what do the results mean for Australian politics in the future? Recently, I had the pleasure of joining Marija Taflaga and @markgkenny.bsky.social to answers these questions, and more ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

A new study in the Lancet says the closure of USAID could lead to the premature deaths of more than 14 million people in less than five years, including 4.5 million children under the age of 5. Donald Trump chose this. www.theguardian.com/...

"In this, the age of impunity, Sir Major invites us to consider whether we are different from Trump's Americans or merely distant." #AUViews bit.ly/4nBkKNo by @markgkenny.bsky.social via @canberratimes.bsky.social.

Excellent piece this. What a tragedy.

"We need to put #AUKUS to a parliamentary inquiry - subject it to some democratic scrutiny. ...the Albanese govt has the political space to do it, and it would allow us to rebalance our relationship with the US." @emmashortis.bsky.social & @markgkenny.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/b...

My 95 year old mother hated Dutton and Morrison even though she is a conservative but googled Ley’s press club speech and was quite impressed.

My Trade Secrets today. Imagine the US in 1957 had seen the Sputnik satellite overhead & said "Nah, we'll leave space to the Soviets". Thanks to climate change denial, mindless prejudice and trade protectionism, that's just what it's doing now with China & green tech, esp EVs and batteries. 1/2

"Whether this was always his plan - a cunning strategic manoeuvre by Trump and his military advisers - or if it merely turned out like this, almost doesn't matter. A deep thinker Trump is not." #AUViews bit.ly/4elsMWJ by @markgkenny.bsky.social via @canberratimes.bsky.social.

#AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️The ABC’s Chief Election Analyst Emeritus @antonygreenelec.bsky.social joins @markgkenny.bsky.social and @marijataflaga.bsky.social to talk elections past, present and future. How does this recent one compare to ones in the past? 🤔 🎧Listen Now bit.ly/3GfSr6t

Australia's enduring love affair with the US is at a critical point #AUViews Read Now bit.ly/44erOac by @markgkenny.bsky.social via @canberratimes.bsky.social.

Orange balloon

“War itself is, of course, a form of madness. It’s hardly a civilized pursuit. It’s amazing how we spend so much time inventing devices to kill each other and so little time working on how to achieve peace.” – Walter Cronkite

“I want to thank everybody and, in particular, God, I wanna just say, we love you God…” What? Woefully amateurish

I remember that time.

Amid the unpredictability of the current economic environment, how can Australia benefit from global change? #AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️ Treasurer @jimchalmers.bsky.social joins @markgkenny.bsky.social to talk about how to best position Australia’s economy for the future. 🎧 bit.ly/45pJZMh.

#AUViews "Americans might have ceded government to corrupt oligarchs with the fluid morals of TV scriptwriters, but Australians still believe in sound government." 📰 bit.ly/4lcK4Yl by @markgkenny.bsky.social via @canberratimes.bsky.social.

#ICYMI Is the prime minister’s new slogan merely a crafty label to be retrofitted to existing Labor policy? 📰 #AUViews bit.ly/45hZl5k by @markgkenny.bsky.social via @crikey.com.au.

What will the agenda be for the Albanese-Trump meeting at the G7, especially with the unfolding instability in the US? #AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️ @markgkenny.bsky.social and @marijataflaga.bsky.social catch up to discuss the US under Trump and issues closer to home. 🎧https://bit.ly/4e3GsWk.

#AUViews "It is not just that Trump MKII prefers stagecraft over statecraft, it is that this president sees no distinction between the two." bit.ly/4mUX5ay by @markgkenny.bsky.social via @canberratimes.bsky.social.

"But has the nation embarked on a new direction of 'progressive patriotism' as the prime minister has branded it, or just stuck to the old one?" #ICYMI 📰 #AUViews bit.ly/4kLzvv1 by @markgkenny.bsky.social via @canberratimes.bsky.social

Opinion | In Australia, where overt flag-waving rings hollow and is usually considered tasteless, the word “patriot” has always felt imported and foreign. Yet that might be changing, @markgkenny.bsky.social writes.

Can this be right? If so... whoahhh!!! #Australia

I’m not sure which is more unsettling: having MAGA Hegseth blunder into the region to sabre-rattle about “imminent” war with China, or having Australia’s crucial foreign policy communications unsubtly banged out by Defence Minister Richard Marles.

Bombing schools & hospitals, incinerating children, starving them to death. It is clear now that no outrage or atrocity will loosen the grip of Israel’s all-powerful “lobby” on captive govs. What use has the denial of Palestinian statehood served? It is a failed strategy now licensing annihilation.

Former prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, tells BBC Israeli actions in Gaza ‘close to a war crime’ www.timesofisrael.com/former-pm-ol...

I’d love to see a lot more cars like this on the street! Back to the era when they were actually beautiful.