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Another “right-wing GetUp”? Join the crowd.

A new conservative group promises to take the fight to progressive activists GetUp. The only problem: it's been tried, over and over and over.


Why rights-holder Wide World of Sports buried Tennis Australia story

An online editor at Nine's Wide World of Sport has told his staff to steer clear of a major business story.

Is this the end for the great wheeler-dealer Harold Mitchell?

Harold Mitchell's power in Australian media and culture is staggering. What will ASIC's recent charges mean for the prominent businessman?

Matthew Guy is listening to the needs of all Victorians (he hasn’t already blocked)

The Victorian Liberal leader has a bad reputation of blocking people on social media. It may be satisfying at the time, but it raises some important broader questions.

The useless apologies of the banking royal commission

As the "sorry" pageant rolls on, we have to remember the physical impossibility of apology in the mind of something not living.

Competition policy is the new, and weird, front line of neoliberalism

With widespread agreement that corporations have grown too powerful, is divestment the best way to curb that power? It's a debate many others are having outside Australia.

Numbers, screw-up, or money? Let’s trace the origins of this embassy mess

We all accepted at face value that the Israel embassy pitch was tied to Wentworth. So why exactly is this damn thing still hanging around?

Fairfax and Nine journos team up a day after takeover vote

Journalists at Nine and Fairfax seem to be already embracing their looming marriage, following a scoop in Fairfax papers.

There are no easy answers to the questions of Bourke Street attack

Crikey readers respond to the question of why the Bourke Street killer was on bail, power struggles in rural Australia and Steve Bannon's Australian appearances.

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Government goes all out to hide the trial of K and Collaery from public

The government is trying dirty tricks in its efforts to prevent the public from knowing about its persecution of Witness K and Bernard Collaery.

The AFR’s neoliberal remake of The Usual Suspects

Once again, a tiny pack of interest-rate hawks at the Australian Financial Review are demanding the economy be crunched in the name of neoliberal orthodoxy.

Scott Morrison ramps up Trumpian rhetoric against journalists

Scott Morrison's suggestion that an ABC reporter was a Labor partisan is just one the ways he's been channelling Trumpism.

FYI & Side View
No pain, no grain: quinoa's hidden history

No pain, no grain: quinoa's hidden history

Welcome to For Your Information. This week, Helen Razer examines South America's alleged superfood, quinoa.

Up in Armistice

Up in Armistice

Welcome to Side View — a curated guide to new and overlooked content on politics, policy, and public affairs. This week: a history-packed Side View looks at the Armistice, 80 years since Kristallnacht, and Orwell's lurid personal life.

Why losing the House could actually help Trump in 2020

If the Democrats go into the 2020 elections complaining about the conduct of the 2016 elections, they don't stand a chance against Trump's populist appeal.


Blue wave or big victory? How the media covered the midterms.

The results have been used as evidence of America's "cold civil war", with either side able to interpret them as they wish. To an extent, that division has been imported to Australia.


US midterms confirm America is deeply (and dangerously) divided

Though the Democrats seized the House, the results suggest Donald Trump's populist movement retains much of its potency.

When a majority ain’t a majority: the rocky road ahead for US Democrats

It's good news overall for the Democrats, but the thorny issue of intra-party conflict remains a pressing concern.

Scott Morrison announces $3 billion Pacific package

Good morning, early birds. Scott Morrison has announced a $3 billion Pacific infrastructure funding package, the Democrats have scored a victory in the US midterms, and Victorian Labor plan 50% renewables by 2030. It's the news you need to know, with Chris Woods.

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Confused, contradictory, incompetent: Morrison and Co just aren’t up to it

The Morrison government is stuffing up everything it touches, domestically and diplomatically.

Time to bust some myths about the “property crash”

Contrary to the clickbait peddlers, there's no property crash. If anything, our financial sector, and the surrounding economy, have become more resilient in recent years.

Foxtel posts Christmas party invites, redundancy notices on same day

Foxtel gives the Christmas gift of redundancy, Chris Smith is set to rejoin Nine Entertainment, and the Nine-Fairfax merger is less valuable than ever.


Holy Wars

How The Australian targets and attacks its enemies


Morrison announces plan to cut migrant intake

PM Scott Morrison has announced a plan to reduce Australia’s migration cap, China has been revealed as the perpetrator of a number of cyber thefts in Australia, and a new scheme will give domestic violence victims early access to their super. It’s the news you need to know, with Chris Woods.

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Steve Bannon is back on the ABC

Far-right nationalist and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has once again been given a platform to promote his message by the ABC.


Canary in the coalmine: inside the Latrobe Valley’s ongoing power battle

Nationally, the war over climate change may have frozen, but in the Valley it runs hot. This is one to watch at the Victorian election.


Government’s contempt for a free press on display with Assange

The Australian government continues to do and say nothing on Assange, but this is just one of many ongoing attacks on press freedom.

Why was the Bourke Street killer at large? Andrews and Pakula have questions to answer

Finding the answer to why Hassan Khalif Shire Ali was allowed to walk the streets — despite having his passport cancelled and refusing to face court — will be impossible given our useless system of intelligence oversight.

A timeline of the sexual harassment scandal tearing the Greens apart

Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham has this week lost the confidence of Richard Di Natale and other senior figures, but this fight has been on for the past six months.

Prying Eyes

How personal surveillance invades our lives 24/7


Catalano’s last-minute bid fails to stop Fairfax voting for Nine takeover

The merger is officially on — despite a notable appeal from the former Domain CEO. So, what happens now?


Facebook in crisis: when a digital giant struggles for analogue solutions

As fallout from fake news and data privacy scandals continue to wear on Facebook, the company is finding that its challenges seem more like a feature than a bug in its business model.


Seven AGM promises a sunny outlook, but cuts will hurt

Chair Kerry Stokes and CEO Tim Worner were optimistic at Seven's annual general meeting. But staff and shareholders won't have much to smile about.

Fairfax closes local paper office, staff to work remotely

In a story on its website, the paper said the change was at least in part because of changes in technology.

And the Wankley goes to…

...Sydney radio station 2GB for bringing back the "Fake Sheikh".

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