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What the child abuse royal commission didn’t fix. The ongoing agony of Andrew Coffey
If you assumed the ordeal for child sex abuse victims somehow ended with the royal commission, Andrew Coffey's story will show how far that is from the truth.
Unpacking Albanese: pragmatic policies meet old-school sales pitch
The true 'working-class man' has at last cut through: 'I may not always be the smoothest talker, but I'll always tell it straight.'
I made $42.75 buying crypto. Now I don’t know how to cash it out
I saw green, I saw red — and I saw dollar signs. Unfortunately my windfall is not mine for the taking. Welcome to the first instalment of CryptoCam.
Keeping up with the Jones: Christensen appears on far-right conspiracy theorist’s show
It's another step in the outgoing Queensland MP's plan for building a conspiracy-theorist audience for his post-politics life.
Your Say: More independents, fewer excuses
Crikey readers are adamant independent candidates would be much better for democracy than those who merely toe the party line.
Excuses, excuses — but there’s no justification for this kind of tactic
When do excuses for bad behaviour, criminal or otherwise, become as offensive as the behaviour itself? More and more often, it seems.
Christian Kerr: the living — and now departed — reason why anonymity has power in politics
No one really knows just how many sources this trailblazer had but they gave him the ammunition to shock the bejesus out of Australian politics.
Scott Morrison is a bully. Just ask Bridget Archer and Julia Banks
With a 'close supportive friend' like the prime minister, female Liberal MPs would have to be asking: who needs an enemy?
Dear Leslie, my uncle is a pariah in his family for an innocent act
Should relatives forgive a tragic and horrible accident? Dr Leslie Cannold tackles this and other tricky topics.
When local newspapers die, local democracy dies with them
At the weekend's NSW council elections, it appears voter turnout was down and informal votes were up.
Click nation: how Australians turned to buying online, and stayed there
How popular is ecommerce in Australia? Well we've overtaken even the Americans.
Australia, sorry, but we really need to talk about inheritance tax
With inheritances set to grow in the next two decades, a tax could temper intergenerational equality while generating government revenue, if implemented in the right way.
Guilty until proven innocent: America is finally facing up to injustice
In the last three decades, nearly 3000 prisoners in the US have had their convictions overturned. That may be the tip of the innocence iceberg.
The world is on edge: how panic about Omicron spread like wildfire
The new COVID variant came out of nowhere and a cold sweat broke out right around the globe. But are we worrying for worrying's sake?
Mutant (reporting) on the march: why we are wary of Omicron catastrophising
The Australia media were poised to make the Omicron variant the next viral bogeyman. But two years of pandemic has wised us up.
COVID reveals an amoral world devoid of global governance
As countries scramble to contain and control the Omicron variant, all thoughts of caring and sharing vaccines collapsed in a shameful heap.
Climate lies: countries are trying to dupe the UN on emissions data
A startling new report has shown how many countries are misreporting emissions data and pushing flawed models. What else are big polluters trying to get away with?
Never mind climate plan nonsense — feel the politics. (And the press gallery falls for it)
The media seem to have decided the climate policy is second in importance to whether Scott Morrison can pull off another election win.
Our environmental failures go further than net zero. They begin in our backyard
It's not just our inaction on climate change: our governments' reluctance to listen to the experts or spend much-needed money on conservation has us doing other kinds of environmental damage too.
Labor won the final parliamentary weeks. Does that even matter?
Labor may hold a comfortable lead in the polls, but there's still concern and frustration that the opposition's message lacks cut-through.
A rotten end to a rotten year for a rotten government
No wonder Scott Morrison wants only a handful of sitting days in the first half of next year — he has no legislative agenda to pursue, even if he could be sure his own backbench would support it.
Toxic culture report one day, shouts of ‘get a room’ the next. Is Parliament listening?
People have been bullied into taking their lives. They've been sexually assaulted in their workspaces. And they're afraid of the repercussions of speaking out. What will it take for things to change in Parliament House?
The outing of Hillary Bray
When Christian Kerr exploded on to the scene in the pages Crikey, politics had never seen anything like him. And his old friend Susan Brown believes it never will again.
Fighting trolls or helping media mates? The truth about Morrison’s social media bill
What's in a name? Nothing much as far as the Social Media (Anti-Trolling) Bill goes. It's less about online abuse and more about helping publishers.
Crikey Talks: Guy Rundle on the whys and the hows of Scott Morrison, PM
In the latest Crikey Talks event, correspondent-at-large Guy Rundle gives his shrewd judgment on what makes the prime minister electable.
Sweden used to be a sanctuary for refugees. No longer
In 2015, Swedes took immense pride in the country’s decision to accept 163,000 refugees, most from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. But a lot has changed since then.
Have we already forgotten the lessons of the Ever Given?
The blocking of the Suez Canal is becoming a distant memory as consumers, governments and economies ignore the vital lessons of the debacle.
The real reason Xi didn’t make it to the climate summit
The US criticised Xi Jinping's absence at COP26, but he had his own reason to stay away from Glasgow: consolidating power back home.
Rudd: Morrison should not be attacked for his faith. But he should tell us how it affects his politics
It's not unreasonable or intrusive for Australians to ask how Scott Morrison's religious faith impacts on his political behaviour and decision-making, writes former prime minister Kevin Rudd.
It’s time to call it out: Scott Morrison doesn’t care about secular accountability
In a new series, Crikey asks: what governs Scott Morrison? A dedication to Australia, or a dedication to his own faith — and above all, himself?
The good word: a compendium of Scott Morrison’s godly quotes
The PM has never shied away from making his faith known, but it's the cryptic references — the hidden meanings — that speak volumes about his mentality.
‘Without truth, no democracy can stand’: why we are calling out the prime minister
Today Crikey publishes an uncomfortable but important investigation that exposes the prime minister as a systemic, consistent and unremitting public liar.
A national leader with a readiness to lie and a reflex to do so when under pressure
Scott Morrison lies. A lot. And it's particularly true when he's feeling the political heat.
The truth is precious. Let’s not take it for granted
It’s easy to be cynical about politics and politicians, but we mustn't forget how important the truth is to a functioning democracy.
Seeing Red, feeling Blue: pastiche pop and the power of the persona
New albums by Taylor Swift, a pop-music genius, and Lana Del Rey, a pop-culture project, illustrate two extremes of the musical spectrum.
Modernism is back in architecture. But it’s not all bad — really
If the Australian Institute of Architects Awards are anything to go by, modernism is back, baby. Guy Rundle reviews the good, the bad, and the mildly depressing.
A study of the least interesting man in the world
In The Game, Sean Kelly portrays Scott Morrison as nobody at all, a politician conjured into existence by the settings of new politics.
We must learn to see the corruption that pervades Australian public life, and restructure it
Australians, and especially our governing class, have normalised soft corruption. If we want things to change, we need to bring back the outrage.
How to end corruption? First break down the code of silence allowing it to thrive
The culture of silence that permits the soft corruption and alleged abuse witnessed in Parliament cannot be allowed to endure.
Solutions to corruption: a voters’ strike to end political donations?
Refusing to vote? Maybe. But there are other ways to clean up Australian politics.
