Chris Kevin Kenny was born on 28 September 1962 and is an Australian conservative political commentator, author and former political adviser.
22 Facts About Chris Kenny
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Chris Kenny is a columnist for The Australian newspaper as well as the host of a weeknight current affairs program, The Kenny Report on Sky News Australia.
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Chris Kenny initially studied wildlife and park management in South Australia and worked for the National Parks and Wildlife Service as a fire-spotter and park assistant, before switching his studies to a BA in journalism in 1984.
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Chris Kenny later worked for the Adelaide newspaper The News, ABC's The 7.30 Report, Channel 10 and Channel 9 in Adelaide.
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Chris Kenny wrote columns for The Advertiser, Sunday Mail and The Adelaide Review.
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In January 2009, Chris Kenny was recruited as chief of staff to then-opposition leader, Malcolm Turnbull.
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Chris Kenny was Turnbull's chief of staff during the Utegate scandal but has written that he had no contact with Turnbull's mole Godwin Grech, resigning when Turnbull subsequently lost the Liberal leadership to Tony Abbott in 2009.
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In 2010 Chris Kenny was appointed General Manager, External Affairs, for transport giant Asciano, but left at the end of the year to return to media work.
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From 2013, Chris Kenny has hosted Viewpoint and Friday Live on Sky News Australia, which are both opinion programs.
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Chris Kenny relinquished his weekly column for Adelaide's Sunday Mail.
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Chris Kenny has hosted afternoon and evening talkback radio on Macquarie Radio filling in for hosts such as Ben Fordham, Steve Price and Ross Greenwood, as well as hosting his own weekly Friday Feedback show until March 2019.
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Chris Kenny is currently a columnist for The Australian newspaper as well as the host of a weeknight current affairs program, The Kenny Report, and formerly, weekly media program, Kenny on Media, on Sky News Australia.
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Chris Kenny has been a vocal critic of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for alleged expansionism and bias.
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Chris Kenny argued in July 2011 that Julia Gillard could not recover as prime minister, that Labor would lose the next general election and that Kevin Rudd could limit the extent of those losses.
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Chris Kenny had been at the Lindt Chocolate Cafe, the scene of the hostage crisis, only minutes before it unfolded.
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In November 2019, it was announced that Chris Kenny would be one of 20 members of the Senior Advisory Group to help co-design the Indigenous voice to government set up by Ken Wyatt, the Minister for Indigenous Australians under the Morrison government.
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Chris Kenny has previously criticised Langton as being "aggressive" towards "perceived ideological enemies".
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Chris Kenny is a harsh critic of global warming alarmism, and climate change and energy policies but has never denied the science of climate change.
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In 2021, after Prime Minister Scott Morrison started aiming for net zero carbon emissions by 2050, and his employer News Corp changed its position on climate change, Chris Kenny wrote that the founder of the Liberal Party, Sir Robert Menzies, would be "turning in his grave", claiming that "expansion of government power" was responsible for News Corp's change in direction.
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Chris Kenny has been criticised by his fan base for his stance, although not by his colleagues at News Corp.
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Nonetheless, sections of the Australian media expressed concern about the ruling, with The Conversations Mark Rolfe arguing that Chris Kenny "took the skit out of its context" and The Guardians David Marr saying that the case "raise[d] serious questions about free speech in Australia".
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Chris Kenny is a keen Australian rules football follower, having played at reserve grade level for SANFL clubs Norwood and West Adelaide.