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Please stop taking the social media engagement bait

X users want to make you mad. They’re making money off it. Don’t let them.

Australia’s self-centred media misses the real politics of the climate crisis

The traditional media is acting as a cheerleader for the fossil fuel industry while painting climate protesters as extremists. Has it misread the room?

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Rental crisis: desperate students turn to Chinese brokers and pay the price

Thousands of Chinese students are arriving in Australian cities amid a rental crisis, and many are turning to unreliable Chinese-based brokers to find a home.

Energy profiteering not quite as detached from the main economy as we’re told

The RBA says wages are a threat to inflation, but not energy sector profits. Construction materials giant Boral’s results tell a different story.

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The right’s No campaign harbours a dangerous, hidden agenda 

The rise of conspiracies without theories isn’t just civic vandalism — it’s a threat to our democracy and the future of the country.

The murder of Reza Barati — a dress rehearsal for later, bigger lies by Morrison

The Iranian asylum seeker was murdered while in Australia’s care, but our ex-PM misled us about what happened — a familiar theme in his career.

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News Corp’s lips are sealed over no Newspoll in lead-up to Voice referendum

Speculation among poll watchers went into overdrive on Sunday evening after four weeks passed without a fresh poll.

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The architecture of the UK’s brutal new refugee policy is literally and figuratively Australian

Turns out it’s not just the intellectual architecture of the UK’s ‘stop the boats’ rhetoric that comes from Australia, but the logistics as well.

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Labor’s defence of American empire, Israel and a shrinking nation

Australia has devolved into a US client state — and it seems the Albanese government has little interest in reversing this trend.

Baz Luhrmann arrives for the 2021 AACTA Awards in Sydney (Image: AAP/Bianca De Marchi)

What’s the future of the Australian film industry?

With the bulk of government funding going to Marvel movies and Disney franchises, what does the pipeline look like for emerging local filmmakers?

Climate activist Joana Partyka spray-paints a Frederick McCubbin painting (Image: Disrupt Burrup Hub/Private Media)

Climate activists cop harassment but heavy hands of the law won’t deter them

Crikey readers absorbed a recent story about WA police going after climate activists ‘with a growing feeling of dread’.

Former Liberal Party staffer Brittany Higgins (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

On Brittany Higgins and the weaponisation of leaked personal data

Plus: why a small regional Queensland town trended on TikTok over the weekend.

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Is social media turning us into prudes?

How big tech is helping to fuel a puritanical social movement. Plus the nightmare scenario for being caught in a privacy breach.

A TikTok video comparing a car's odometer reading history against its Facebook Marketplace listing (Image: TikTok/@matty.rio)

People are making TikToks exposing Facebook car sales fraud

A new Service NSW tool is helping people turn odometer fraud into content. Plus what can we learn from one of the most prevalent forms of online fraud?

Woodside merch from the 2023 FeNaClNG festival (Image: Supplied)

My Woodside merch haul: trinkets from the Anthropocene

The annual FeNaClNG festival near WA’s North West Shelf gas project celebrates iron ore, salt and gas. Sadly the boiling planet doesn’t rate a showbag.

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As more light shines on PwC’s $3bn tax practice, it’s clear it shouldn’t audit again

PwC claimed legal professional privilege so often over the past decade it lost count. And it helped it make billions from aggressive tax advice.

Woodside Energy CEO Meg O'Neill (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

Climate criminal Woodside gets value for money from its political donations

Via millions of donated dollars, Woodside ensures the political class stands ready to defend it when its huge role in global heating is targeted.

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Sportsbet unleashes record spend as Canberra weighs gambling advertising ban

As discussion heats up around reform on gambling advertising, lobbying has kicked into gear. But who would a ban actually affect?

One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

Hanson wrong to say MPs would have to consult the Voice to Parliament

The solicitor-general and other constitutional law experts say neither Parliament nor the government would be under any obligation to consult the new body — despite what the One Nation leader claims.

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Heston Russell shills on Instagram, Elon Musk changes his tune, and Crikey crops up in Canberra

Summing up the 21st century in a piece of sponsored content, Musk’s inconsistent views on hiring and firing — and more from the Crikey bunker.

Rupert Murdoch (Image: AP/Josh Reynolds)

The wily old Fox agenda trumps all challengers

Try as they might, broadcasters just cannot out-right-wing the Murdoch model. The ABC should keep that in mind.

Donald Trump (Image: DPA/Bernd von Jutrczenka)

Trump watch: 7 years later, is his Watergate finally here?

With this latest indictment, Donald Trump’s Watergate moment may have finally, truly arrived. And it’s an appropriate one.

Former US president Donald Trump (Image: AP/Gerald Herbert)

Donald Trump indicted after investigation into 2020 election

The four-count indictment alleges Trump conspired to defraud the US by preventing Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory

RBA Governor Philip Lowe (Image: AAP/Darren England)

Think today’s labour markets are tight? Wait a decade, Phil

Health and care are our biggest sources of employment and of jobs growth, spelling trouble for economists who think in traditional terms.

Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

Key driver of inflation is falling, but that may not be enough for the RBA

Housing construction costs are coming off the boil after an intense year fuelled by demand. But other sources of inflation lurk.

Liberal Senator Gerard Rennick in 2020 (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)

‘I’m not an anti-vaxxer’: how the TGA tried to persuade an LNP senator about vaccine safety

Documents obtained by Crikey show how much time the medical regulator’s staff spent responding to Gerard Rennick.

The PwC Australia offices in Melbourne (Image: AAP/Joel Carrett)

‘Intertwined with government’: PwC helped revamp NSW Health then raked in $30m

Exclusive: PwC has taken tens of millions from NSW local health districts, reflecting how ‘intertwined with government’ the big four consulting firms are, critics say.  

Flooding on the outskirts of Beijing which has had its heaviest rainfall in 140 years (Image: AP/Private Media)

Dollars but no sense: many will make millions from the destruction of the planet

As the planet boils, Crikey readers become more and more disillusioned with in inaction of governments.

Anjali Sharma and independent Senator David Pocock's press conference on Monday (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)

We want politicians to think of young people, not themselves, over climate crises

Anjali Sharma, a young climate activist, says it’s the health and well-being of current and future generations that should be front and centre.

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