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Chris KennyAssociate Editor (National Affairs)

Commentator, author and former political adviser, Chris Kenny hosts The Kenny Report, Monday to Thursday at 5.00pm on Sky News Australia. He takes an unashamedly rationalist approach to national affairs.

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PERTH, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 01: Police are seen on patrol at a Covid-19 drive through clinic in Inglewood where members of the public have been waited over two hours in line on February 01, 2021 in Perth, Australia. Lockdown restrictions are now in place across the Perth, Peel and South West regions of Western Australia following the discovery of a positive community COVID-19 case in a worker from a quarantine hotel facility. As of 6pm on Sunday, people Perth, Peel and the South West are subject to stay at home orders, and will only be allowed to leave their homes to shop for essentials, for medical or health needs, exercise within their neighbourhood or travel to work if they cannot work from home. Face masks are now mandatory outdoors, with all restrictions to remain in place until 6pm on February 5. (Photo by Matt Jelonek/Getty Images)

Nation infected by the scourge of overreach

Take a look around this country. If this is the response most Australians want, then it’s going to be an excruciating year.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 03: Member for Hughes Craig Kelly arrives in the Media Gallery at Parliament House on February 03, 2021 in Canberra, Australia. Liberal MP Craig Kelly has been told by Prime Minister Scott Morrison to heed expert medical advice, after the outspoken politician promoted unproven coronavirus treatments and questioned the safety of vaccinations. (Photo by Sam Mooy/Getty Images)

Efforts to cancel Kelly are frightening

The green Left demands Craig Kelly be silenced without making their case, detailing errors and showing the basic qualities of research.

Chris Kenny

commentaryInquirer

Most of the population would have given hardly a moment’s thought to the street protests. Picture: Che Chorley

Worlds apart but Aunty can’t see it

Why discuss a report on Aboriginal disadvantage when you can #changethedate?

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TOPSHOT - Fireworks are seen above the White House at the end of the Inauguration day for US President Joe Biden in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2021. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP)

A fresh start? Don’t get your hopes up

Optimism here and in the US appears to be misguided. Let me be a wet blanket and explain why 2021 promises plenty of pitfalls.

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COMMENTARYCommentary

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump claps during a rally in support of Republican incumbent senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue ahead of Senate runoff in Dalton, Georgia on January 4, 2021. - President Donald Trump, still seeking ways to reverse his election defeat, and President-elect Joe Biden converge on Georgia on Monday for dueling rallies on the eve of runoff votes that will decide control of the US Senate. Trump, a day after the release of a bombshell recording in which he pressures Georgia officials to overturn his November 3 election loss in the southern state, is to hold a rally in the northwest city of Dalton in support of Republican incumbent senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Trump knows exactly what he is doing

The US President’s reckless marshalling of powerful community resentment and his preference for bullying over legal processes cannot be tolerated.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA-NCA NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 11 2020.Prime Minister Scott Morrison with state and territory premiers for National Cabinetduring a press conference in Parliament House Canberra. L-R: QLD Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, SA Premier Steven Marshall and WA Premier Mark McGowan.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Our land girt by fear and inanity

To be proud of our nanny-state response to Covid is to be blind to what is happening to our national character.

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Ex Cairns to The Australian, 30.11.2020Chronic ÃOvercrowdingÃ in the Gulf township of Mornington Island Ã PICS by BRIAN CASSEY story Michael McKenna Mother Shaylene Yarrick y with her five children and other kids that sleep inside their two bedroom Mornington Island house that regularly hosts twenty resiidents. Many houses on Mornington Island sleep twenty or more souls . Pic - Brian Cassey

They’re the voice, try to understand it

As a nation, we continue to wear the obvious stain of Indigenous disadvantage. It’s time First Nations people had their say.

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***AUSTRALIA TOP STORIES - YEAR IN REVIEW*** MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 13: A heavy police presence is seen at the Queen Victoria Market on September 13, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Anti-lockdown protesters organised a

The sickly stench of government control

So, it’s immoral to leave behind a carbon footprint for future generations — but unimaginable debt? No worries.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 20: South Australian Premier Steven Marshall announces restrictions being eased in South Australia after a lie given to contact tracers about the Woodville pizza bar sparked South Australia's lockdown at the Daily COVID-19 update media conference on on November 20, 2020 in Adelaide, Australia. South Australian premier Steven Marshall has imposed lockdown restrictions across the state for six days as health authorities work to contain an outbreak of COVID-19 in the community. The new restrictions came into effect at 12:01 on Thursday 19 November, with all South Australians required to stay home for the next six days and only able to leave home for essential purposes. People cannot leave their homes to exercise and only one person per household can visit a supermarket per day. All schools are closed except for children of essential workers and vulnerable children while childcare will be open only to essential workers. Aged care and residential disability care is in lockdown. Takeaway food outlets, restaurants, bars, cafes, pubs and other food venues are closed and non-essential business and industry will shut down while weddings and funerals will be banned for six days. The use of face masks or face coverings outside the home are encouraged but not mandatory. (Photo by Kelly Barnes/Getty Images)

Time to unmask the alarmists and fearmongers

Pandemic talk is wind beneath the wings of hypochondriacs and bedwetters — South Australia has proven that point brilliantly.

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Joel Fitzgibbon and Anthony Albanese during Question Time in the House of Representatives Chamber at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture by kym Smith

Emission impossible: Albo can’t deliver

Labor is tearing itself apart over a climate outcome 30 years away.

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