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Josh Taylor — Journalist

Josh Taylor

Journalist

Josh is Crikey’s general reporter covering politics, immigration, technology, the environment and, well, just about everything. Josh joined Crikey in 2015 after being lured away from his role as an award-winning technology journalist for ZDNet.

Village toys with Lego Movie block

Village Roadshow has launched legal action to block the website SolarMovie.

Can the FBI hack your iPhone?

The US government pinkie swears it is only going to use a backdoor to Apple products this one time. But Apple's having none of it.

NBN sell-off wouldn't even pay for construction

Has everyone forgot what happened when we privatised Telstra?

'Weaponised' anti-discrimination laws go to the dogs (and cats)

The Australian Christian Lobby's case that anti-discrimination laws need to be suspended is based entirely on one case that is still being investigated.

AFP rejects claims it is spying on journos

Last week, in response to Guardian Australia journalist Paul Farrell’s report detailing over 200 pages of AFP files related to tracking down sources of his for a single story on border protection policy, the journalists’ union, the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance said the AFP would “trawl the metadata of journalists”. CEO Paul Murphy said this was […]

Freedom Boy flying the coop?

Freedom Boy, coming to save an electorate near you! (If you live in Melbourne's south-east.)

Remember Julie Bishop's "Googly, Facebooky" beanbag chairs? We have found out why they cost $600 each. And why they can only fit one public servant each.

Why are Julie Bishop's Facebooky, Googly beanbags so freaking expensive?

Remember Julie Bishop's "Googly, Facebooky" beanbag chairs? We have found out why they cost $600 each. And why they can only fit one public servant each.

Foxtel could launch piracy court case this week

Foxtel is set to test the limits of the site-blocking law it lobbied so hard for.

Dare to download: Dallas Buyers Club case over for good

Australians who illegally downloaded Dallas Buyers Club are safe from the long arm of the law, with the company giving up its legal action.