Professor Mark Kenny
Australian Studies Institute
ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences
Mark Kenny is a Professor at the ANU Australian Studies Institute.
Professor Kenny’s research interests include national politics, comparative studies, democracy, and the rise of populism.
Fields of expertise
Articles
Dutton and the Coalition did not do the work, and misread the Australian mood
The former federal director of the Liberal Party, Brian Loughnane, used to tell media companies that their practice…
Can Peter Dutton flip Labor voters to rewrite electoral history? It might just work
They are neither as leafy nor as affluent as much of the Liberal heartland, but Peter Dutton believes…
Can a ‘Trumpist’ approach to politics work in Australia?
In one of their typically literary sketches, 1990s comedy duo Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie asked if Adolf Hitler’s fanatical…
The life of Brian
When a slightly nerdy American-born astronomer threw his hat in the ring to become Vice-Chancellor of Australia’s only…
Dutton’s high-wire act
When the Liberal Party’s most senior right-wing figure, Peter Dutton, forced a leadership spill in 2018, ending Malcolm…
Australian conservatism succumbs to the same radical tendency as like-minded parties abroad
As bad as it is, Scott Morrison’s surreptitious circumvention of Australia’s parliamentary and Cabinet processes might have got…