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Guy Rundle  — Correspondent-at-large

Guy Rundle

Correspondent-at-large

Guy Rundle is correspondent-at-large for Crikey. He's a former editor of Arena Magazine and contributes to a variety of publications in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Rundle: the rotten heart of the Apple Isle

With a hung parliament on the table heading into this week's election in Tasmania -- "the most contradictory polity in the Western world" -- the Liberals are dwarfing their competitors' spending. But what's new?

Van Badham addresses a protest against sexual abuse,  Melbourne, 2014.

Is Van Badham running for office?

Could the self-styled anarcho-syndicalist-libertarian-communist take Brunswick against the Greens?

A design of the proposed new building at Federation Square. Supplied: Victorian government.

Rundle: Vic Labor's Apple store shows it's getting desperate for an 'innovation' win

The strange decision to whack an Apple store in the middle of Federation Square is just one of Minister of Innovation Phillip Dalidakis' many missteps in an industry he doesn't understand.

Night of the long butter knives for Victorian Labor

Somyurek v Eren in the Victorian Parliament bar.

Rundle: 'America's Pastor' and the crusade for Australia's eternal soul

Billy Graham, whose "crusade" first reached Australia in the 1950s, had a profound effect on evangelism in Sydney and beyond.

Labor factional proxy wars flare up around the country

The bubbling turmoil in Victorian Labor is starting to boil over.

Interminable right-wing 'influencer' Milo Yiannopoulos.

It's not that Barnaby is a hypocrite. It's that conservatism itself is in crisis.

In their disregard of a child on the way from the Barnaby affair, the right is stepping into the territory of post-Woodstock 1970s era cultural nihilism, which even progressives pulled back from eventually.

Rundle: Shorten shows his disregard for Batman by cosying up to coal

If Bill Shorten didn't want to hand ammunition to Labor's foes in the Batman byelection, he had a funny way of showing it in Townsville this week.

The bonkers plan to turn remote Indigenous Australia into a free-market capitalist economy

With one more ad hoc solution piled on another, it's desperate times for the Mundine-Pearson model of remote-area development.

Protestors against the Adani coal mine rally in 2017.

Rundle: culture warrior Brendan Pearson lobs fizzers at anti-Adani hipsters

How ironic, an ex-coal industry spinner doesn’t know when to stop digging.