Mark Kenny (journalist)

Mark Kenny is an Australian journalist. He is the national affairs editor for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Kenny is a correspondent for Fairfax Media, and formerly worked for ABC and for the Advertiser as the national political editor. He is director of Canberra's National Press Club, and regular commentator on the ABC's Insiders program. Kenny is the cousin of political commentator and Sky News Live presenter Chris Kenny.

Kenny worked for the Labor Party in South Australia. He is a republican, who describes CHOGM meetings as "quaint". He advocates for gay marriage.

Kenny describes the period of Australian political history prior to Malcolm Turnbull becoming prime minister as a period of "infantile political inwardness". He characterises Tony Abbott's national security responses to Islamic extremism as "vilifying" Muslims. He describes Turnbull as "the Coalition's best electoral asset".

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