NSW picks up the pieces after devastating floods
Residents of the NSW Mid North Coast are picking up the pieces after devastating floods ripped through the region, and Russia has carried out its largest air raid against Ukraine since the war started.
Across Australia, governments are implementing harsher youth bail laws in the name of ‘community safety’. They trample children’s rights and abandon the presumption of innocence.
The Reserve Bank is worried about Trump’s trade war. But another threat may prove every bit as damaging and worse.
‘Carbon neutral’ is dead. Here’s what the next greenwashing battleground will look like
The EnergyAustralia case is globally significant, partly because the company said the quiet part out loud, releasing a surprisingly strong statement against carbon offsetting.
‘Taylor Swift has many breakup songs, some of them have happy endings, some of them do not. I hope this will have a happy ending,’ Michael McCormack told Crikey.
Nationals MP Michael McCormack claimed solar panels ‘can’t be recycled’. But several Australia-based companies can recycle up to 90% of the materials.
Electioncast: How the Coalition split affects you
Plus politics editor Bernard Keane reflects on his journalistic process.
With friends like these, huh?
Those hoping the Coalition split could lead to a moderate Liberal renewal seem to have forgotten one crucial thing: the Liberals themselves.
The Liberals now have to grapple with the same issue Anthony Albanese successfully addressed: how to appeal to voters who hate the economic and political system.
Tesla chair Robyn Denholm’s uphill battle with local council over beach lift
Denholm is one of Australia’s most accomplished business figures and Elon Musk’s boss. But she’s finally met her match in a Sydney local council planning committee.
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DFAT prepared lines on Trump’s Gaza ‘relocation’ proposal. Albanese never uttered them
Documents obtained by Crikey reveal how the department rushed to prepare ‘talking points’ for Anthony Albanese in response to Trump’s comments on February 5. But the PM took a more ambiguous line.
Inside the Facebook group lobbying for a Tasmanian stadium at any cost
This weekend, 75,000 will vote in Tasmania’s upper house elections. A group of 23,000 footy fans are trying to influence the result.
Donations are nosediving and staff fleeing. But GetUp!’s chair is feeling optimistic — and wants to take risks
GetUp! is searching for a new CEO after its previous leader left suddenly ahead of a notably quiet election campaign for the once-feared progressive campaigning group.
Governments are addicted to gambling revenue, with pokies Australia’s greatest weakness
Despite the harm posed by gambling — particularly pokies — governments remain addicted to the revenue.
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Do law and order campaigns win votes in Australia?
Stoking public fear over crime was effective for Donald Trump in securing the US presidency in both 2016 and 2024. In Australia, that approach has been less potent.
End of the Coalition is a win-win for Sussan Ley and the Nationals
In a move that benefits both the Liberals and the Nationals, there will be no coalition between the parties — allowing them to recover from defeat in their own separate ways.
The Global South has long been suppressed by the United States’ political and economic interventions. Donald Trump’s actions may finally allow for a new world order.
Donald Trump thought he could command international financial markets. But with Moody’s removing the last triple-A credit rating on US debt, they’re increasingly commanding him.
Tasmanian taxpayers spend millions propping up dying greyhound ‘industry’
History shows Coalition split a trial separation, not a divorce
Boele, she wrote: The Bradfield independent appears to have claimed blue-ribbon Liberal seat
Political reporting often misses context, history and any presence in time. It’s why the coverage of Labor’s recent ministerial dumpings are marred in personality politics.
Sorry, rusted-ons. Victoria’s debt addiction is coming with a heavy cost, including for the rest of us
A productivity assessment of our productivity debate would conclude that, well, we’re not productive
Tony Abbott’s position in Orbán’s Hungary is untenable
The odds were stacked against independent candidate Verity Cooper in Sturt, but she still managed to come fourth. A member of her team explains how grassroots campaigns cut through the duopoly jungle.
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Leadership squabbles, public swipes at their Liberal colleagues, and the Barnaby of it all — the Nationals have been drama queens for a long time.
Labor has tried to walk a fine line on Israel’s actions in Gaza. The ramping up of genocide and ethnic cleansing has made that strategy unviable.
Former BuzzFeed politics editor Alice Workman will return to News Corp as Daily Telegraph chief of staff. Elsewhere, David Crowe’s replacement as the Herald’s head political wonk has been named.
Plus: Peggy Sue rides again!
Sakellarios Bairamis believes in ‘stronger measures to tackle crime’. He’s also faced criminal court proceedings on five matters over the past six years.
A report into the largest public health crisis in Australia, sexual violence, was supposed to delve deep into how victims are failed by justice. But it needs to be thrown out entirely.
2025 should have been a triumph for the Greens, as 2010 proved to be. Instead, Adam Bandt led his party to disaster.
The Maugean skate has lived in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour for thousands of years. That doesn’t seem to matter now the area is a swing seat.
Donald Trump has caved in to China on tariffs, dropping most of his punitive taxes to stave off empty shelves, a stockmarket crash and stagflation. Even he can’t stay in denial forever.
A strange thing has been happening in Australia’s export market, quietly.
Qatar’s deal with Boeing, worth about $150 billion, could spell big trouble for the national carrier.
The prosecution of Macquarie Securities for hundreds of millions of breaches of short selling laws is yet another moment of misconduct within Australia’s business elite.
How did the MAGA Right go from triumph to defeat so rapidly? While they can make excuses, their basic problem is they have no interest in governing well, only governing for themselves.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has changed Europe’s power dynamics, with a striking shift in soft power. Finland’s growing presence proves it’s no longer Sweden’s ‘little brother’.