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Scott Morrison’s incoherent speech reveals the confused nature of his core ideology
The prime minister's personal ideology is so self-contradictory that it leads nowhere and anywhere he feels like rambling.
Decoding ScoMo: the hidden story and messages in his Pentecostal mashup
Crikey has decoded what the prime minister said at the Australian Christian Churches conference. It reveals a mashup of Pentecostal stories, grand prophecies and more.
Sick as it seems, conspiracy, far-right and gun groups continue to promote Port Arthur denialism online
Conspiracy theories that someone else was responsible for or helped carry out the Port Arthur massacre attract thousands of Australians thanks to social media.
How to spin the public, reward your donors and control the politics: a guide to Morrison’s climate scams
Carbon capture and storage is Scott Morrison's greatest con, with the greatest amount of fossil-fuel industry money behind it.
PM pins Australia’s climate future to small, not-yet-ready hydrogen company
Star Scientific has only a handful of employees and is decades away from having a commercially viable product. Yet it's the Coalition's energy hero.
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.
Money talks, and political donors know they’ll be heard loud and clear
There appears to be consensus among Crikey readers: donations to political parties are a serious flaw in our democracy.
Campaign finance is a big problem — here’s how we could go about fixing it
Reforms could help quell the dark impact of money in Australian politics — but even if we could we get them done, would our elected officials want to?
Zones of corruption: how property development inherently challenges democracy
It's one of the longest-standing and most pervasive forms of soft corruption in Australian politics: local, state and federal.
The political is personal
It’s clear now that the political arena — where we look for solutions — is part of the problem.
It’s time for the Coalition’s competition to put a woman in charge
Women at the helm could be just what the rival political parties need to stand out from the rest.
No one thinks they need sexual harassment education, so how do we make it work?
Government-funded sexual harassment training is the easy part – making men receptive to it is much harder.
All the latest from our inquiry journalism unit.
‘Deep-rooted and systemic’: domestic violence is to Australia what gun violence is to the US
The US justice system has its faults, but it does take domestic violence seriously. Until Australia does the same, women will continue to die horrific, preventable deaths.
Morrison magics up technology to blind media opinion on climate — and it worked like a charm for a journalistic nanosecond
Too much media reporting misses what the PM is really up to...
Satanic verses: by calling social media the home of the Devil, the PM is breaching the church-state divide
Until now, Scott Morrison has toed a narrow line, promising that his government’s policies will not be driven by his religious faith. He may just have crossed it.
Where are we from, Australia? And where are we going? One of the answers, it seems, is Brisbane
Recent population data illustrates just how much Australia has changed over time. And not too surprisingly, the pandemic has had a huge impact.
How India’s government let the COVID-19 apocalypse happen
Despite quick action at the start of the pandemic, authorities stumbled with a small aid package. And then the people stopped worrying.
Farewell to a Facebook page that was one of Australia’s major sources of conspiracy theories
RIP Craig Kelly’s Facebook page, a source of bullshit that was taken far too late.
Inside India’s terrifying second wave of COVID-19. How did it get so bad, so quick?
As families beg for help on social media, the government plays politics.
One person in the Australia Post saga is still missing: where is Tony Nutt?
The Australia Post board member is notably absent from the Senate hearing into Christine Holgate's departure as CEO.
Morrison outs himself as our most religious prime minister — in a nation where non-belief is a growing faith
As church attendance in Australia drops off, its God-bothering prime minister declares he's there to do God's work.
Scott Morrison and the Seven Mountains mandate: how the PM is changing Australia in God’s name
Morrison's latest address to the ACC is yet more proof of the outsize influence of Pentecostal Christianity on the Australian Government.
As the SMH celebrates a birthday in the Nine stable, a Fairfax remembers Fairfax values and history
190 years on, the Herald remains to 'tell stories, break news and act as an investigative watchdog'.
The Chaser’s war on News Corp has cost the media giant hundreds of thousands of dollars
The satirical publication's unsubscribe campaign is going great guns — and now it's set itself an ambitious new target.
No means no: when billionaires come to play, that’s when the fun disappears
What Europe has seen this week with the football Super League furore echoes Australian sport codes' private ownership tensions. And it's never pretty.
