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A new book offers a forensic unmasking of Bruce Pascoe's work and suggests he is devaluing the true history of Indigenous Australia. Can the issue be investigated without becoming mired in the culture wars?

Even before questions surrounding Bruce Pascoe's scholarship were raised, it's hard to ignore that Dark Emu has become big business — not least for the companies that support him.

Lawyer and Indigenous rights activist Michael Mansell has found that trying to raise criticism of Bruce Pascoe leads to being lumped in with right-wing reactionaries like Mark Latham.

Australia's cultural institutions were quick to embrace Dark Emu, but now some say they bought into a 'myth' that desperately needs to be revised.

Pascoe always fuelled the narrative that the academic world would seek to quash his renegade scholarship. And it's exactly what happened.

Bruce Pascoe's claims of Indigenous heritage have made a credible and compelling platform for the rise of Dark Emu, but many Aboriginal elders and experts have called them into question — if not rejected them outright.

Today Crikey publishes an uncomfortable but important investigation that exposes the prime minister as a systemic, consistent and unremitting public liar.

Scott Morrison lies. A lot. And it's particularly true when he's feeling the political heat.

It’s easy to be cynical about politics and politicians, but we mustn't forget how important the truth is to a functioning democracy.

It’s one thing to prove that what Morrison said was untrue, incorrect or exaggerated. But there are several possible explanations for that, only one of which is that he deliberately lied.

While Scott Morrison lacks the theatricality of counterpart liars Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, he shares the same hollowness, a lack of substance covered by incessant deception.

Outright lies are only the half of it. A linguistic analysis reveals how other aspects of the PM’s methods — bluster, bullying, evasion, feigned ignorance — all serve to damage political culture.

As lockdown strikes again, we present the diary of a recently single extrovert trying to stop the existential dread from setting in.

While Australians' mental health has been negatively impacted by the pandemic, research shows some people with prior mental health issues fared better than expected.

The failure of the NSW government to get on top of the Sydney outbreak is threatening Australia's economic growth beyond the September quarter, further complicating with policy and political challenge of 'living with COVID'.

Despite Labor moving its 'anti-rorting bill' and Alan Tudge back in the spotlight about the $660 million car parks slush fund, the government is confident it won’t face any real consequences for pork-barrelling.

Labor's cash-for-vaccination plan suggests the party is losing the most basic ability to think through political challenges from within its own social democratic traditions — and the Coalition will benefit.

The Morrison government's war on charities rages unabated and proposed legislation gives it more firepower. But what's really behind its wrath?

YouTube's decision to take down pandemic misinformation spread by Sky News illustrates how News Corp is not merely dangerous to democracies, but a threat to health and safety.

The National Party might be good at getting sound-bites out there, but their hold on both the ground and on the media is starting to deteriorate.

A peak at the metrics confirms that Alan Jones doesn't need The Daily Telegraph to reach an increasingly global — and increasingly fringe-dwelling — audience

Australians, and especially our governing class, have normalised soft corruption. If we want things to change, we need to bring back the outrage.

The culture of silence that permits the soft corruption and alleged abuse witnessed in Parliament cannot be allowed to endure.

Refusing to vote? Maybe. But there are other ways to clean up Australian politics.

There appears to be consensus among Crikey readers: donations to political parties are a serious flaw in our democracy.

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?

It's one of the longest-standing and most pervasive forms of soft corruption in Australian politics: local, state and federal.