Sean Kelly on the Australian soul
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Sean Kelly on the Australian soul
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A columnist’s job is to process deeper currents in news, politics, and culture – all in 800 words.
Who are we as a nation and a people, and what’s going on for us beneath the daily headlines of the 24/7 media cycle?
Few of us stop long enough to wonder – but if we ever wanted to find out, a good place to start would be Sean Kelly’s writing in The Sydney Morning Herald.
Sean Kelly is a former political staffer in the Rudd and Gillard governments, who now writes a weekly column on politics for The Sydney Morning Herald. He’s also the author of the book The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison.
Sean has a front row seat to what’s going on for us as a nation and combines that perspective with an insider’s view of how politics works. In this interview with Life & Faith he considers what it might mean to be considered a chronicler of the national soul.
Explore
Sean Kelly’s column on how “kindness” won Anthony Albanese the 2025 Federal election.
His column about what might be called “the Albanese effect”: the move towards the centre, and the adoption of a less divisive tone, in the new leadership of the Greens and Liberal Party.
His book The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison