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Please stop taking the social media engagement bait
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Australia’s self-centred media misses the real politics of the climate crisis
The traditional media is acting as a cheerleader for the fossil fuel industry while painting climate protesters as extremists. Has it misread the room?
Rental crisis: desperate students turn to Chinese brokers and pay the price
Thousands of Chinese students are arriving in Australian cities amid a rental crisis, and many are turning to unreliable Chinese-based brokers to find a home.
Energy profiteering not quite as detached from the main economy as we’re told
The RBA says wages are a threat to inflation, but not energy sector profits. Construction materials giant Boral’s results tell a different story.
The right’s No campaign harbours a dangerous, hidden agenda
The rise of conspiracies without theories isn’t just civic vandalism — it’s a threat to our democracy and the future of the country.
The murder of Reza Barati — a dress rehearsal for later, bigger lies by Morrison
The Iranian asylum seeker was murdered while in Australia’s care, but our ex-PM misled us about what happened — a familiar theme in his career.
News Corp’s lips are sealed over no Newspoll in lead-up to Voice referendum
Speculation among poll watchers went into overdrive on Sunday evening after four weeks passed without a fresh poll.
The architecture of the UK’s brutal new refugee policy is literally and figuratively Australian
Turns out it’s not just the intellectual architecture of the UK’s ‘stop the boats’ rhetoric that comes from Australia, but the logistics as well.
Rent applications are increasingly dodgy. It’s time politicians stuck up for renters
It’s good to know renters’ rights will be a priority at national cabinet on Wednesday, but any legislation must be watertight and policed.
Foreign student numbers an important economic trend to watch in a housing crisis
Tourism and international student numbers vary from season to season, and so do the chances of Australians trying to find a place to live.
Labor’s defence of American empire, Israel and a shrinking nation
Australia has devolved into a US client state — and it seems the Albanese government has little interest in reversing this trend.
What’s the future of the Australian film industry?
With the bulk of government funding going to Marvel movies and Disney franchises, what does the pipeline look like for emerging local filmmakers?
Climate activists cop harassment but heavy hands of the law won’t deter them
Crikey readers absorbed a recent story about WA police going after climate activists ‘with a growing feeling of dread’.
Will Education Minister Jason Clare be able to find the money to improve access and equity in Australian universities?
The public is entitled to have little faith in anyone connected with the whole saga when they all appear to have an agenda.
A First Nations model of education in a single image
The pictorial framework for the MK Turner report lays out the knowledge areas children ‘need to gather and learn’ to become a strong Aboriginal person.
On Brittany Higgins and the weaponisation of leaked personal data
Plus: why a small regional Queensland town trended on TikTok over the weekend.
Is social media turning us into prudes?
How big tech is helping to fuel a puritanical social movement. Plus the nightmare scenario for being caught in a privacy breach.
People are making TikToks exposing Facebook car sales fraud
A new Service NSW tool is helping people turn odometer fraud into content. Plus what can we learn from one of the most prevalent forms of online fraud?
My Woodside merch haul: trinkets from the Anthropocene
The annual FeNaClNG festival near WA’s North West Shelf gas project celebrates iron ore, salt and gas. Sadly the boiling planet doesn’t rate a showbag.
As more light shines on PwC’s $3bn tax practice, it’s clear it shouldn’t audit again
PwC claimed legal professional privilege so often over the past decade it lost count. And it helped it make billions from aggressive tax advice.
Climate criminal Woodside gets value for money from its political donations
Via millions of donated dollars, Woodside ensures the political class stands ready to defend it when its huge role in global heating is targeted.
Katy Gallagher can find billions in savings — if she gets her department to crack the whip
What if bureaucrats could report dodgy procurement deals to the Department of Finance? The savings could be in the billions.
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Sportsbet unleashes record spend as Canberra weighs gambling advertising ban
As discussion heats up around reform on gambling advertising, lobbying has kicked into gear. But who would a ban actually affect?
Hanson wrong to say MPs would have to consult the Voice to Parliament
The solicitor-general and other constitutional law experts say neither Parliament nor the government would be under any obligation to consult the new body — despite what the One Nation leader claims.
Heston Russell shills on Instagram, Elon Musk changes his tune, and Crikey crops up in Canberra
Summing up the 21st century in a piece of sponsored content, Musk’s inconsistent views on hiring and firing — and more from the Crikey bunker.
The wily old Fox agenda trumps all challengers
Try as they might, broadcasters just cannot out-right-wing the Murdoch model. The ABC should keep that in mind.
Trump watch: 7 years later, is his Watergate finally here?
With this latest indictment, Donald Trump’s Watergate moment may have finally, truly arrived. And it’s an appropriate one.
Donald Trump indicted after investigation into 2020 election
The four-count indictment alleges Trump conspired to defraud the US by preventing Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory
Think today’s labour markets are tight? Wait a decade, Phil
Health and care are our biggest sources of employment and of jobs growth, spelling trouble for economists who think in traditional terms.
Key driver of inflation is falling, but that may not be enough for the RBA
Housing construction costs are coming off the boil after an intense year fuelled by demand. But other sources of inflation lurk.
‘I’m not an anti-vaxxer’: how the TGA tried to persuade an LNP senator about vaccine safety
Documents obtained by Crikey show how much time the medical regulator’s staff spent responding to Gerard Rennick.
‘Intertwined with government’: PwC helped revamp NSW Health then raked in $30m
Exclusive: PwC has taken tens of millions from NSW local health districts, reflecting how ‘intertwined with government’ the big four consulting firms are, critics say.
Dollars but no sense: many will make millions from the destruction of the planet
As the planet boils, Crikey readers become more and more disillusioned with in inaction of governments.
We want politicians to think of young people, not themselves, over climate crises
Anjali Sharma, a young climate activist, says it’s the health and well-being of current and future generations that should be front and centre.
The right’s No campaign harbours a dangerous, hidden agenda
Maeve McGregor
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Labor’s defence of American empire, Israel and a shrinking nation
Maeve McGregor
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Bombshell report details the biggest rort of all — one right across the public service
Bernard Keane
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Labor’s mixed signals on mates don’t augur well for a reset from the Morrison years
Bernard Keane
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The architecture of the UK’s brutal new refugee policy is literally and figuratively Australian
Charlie Lewis
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