Keane and Brandis aboard the lunchtime freedom ride. What budget crisis? Public broadcaster bigwigs head to Cannes. Questions over Twiggy’s job numbers. New York Times slashes jobs. Murdoch’s retirement plans. What the Hun got wrong about the Fairfax-ABC-Crikey tax axis. Turnbull’s unlikely ally. Melbourne’s cleaners go on strike. How taxpayers prop up the Oz. And Helen Razer on the hipsterfication of porn.
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Meet the ABC’s terrifying grammar Nazis. Vic election primer. Napthine’s dire economic record. Gillard dodges gay marriage question. Rupert’s pay cut. The Hun on a terror rampage. How the big banks stiff the Tax Office for billions. Voters support detention without charge. SBS outsources broadcast depts. Annabel Crabb on why we all need a good wife. And football in your undies? Lingerie league booted off TV.
Julia’s burn book: we read My Story and plucked out the best insults. How News Corp’s terror scoop made life harder for journalists. When Abbott stalked the Malaysian PM. Public servants under armed guard. Terror hysteria distracts from rising workplace fatalities. Numbers key to Morrison’s Cambodia deal. Electoral fraud in Indi? No, Brandis hasn’t reversed the onus of proof. ABC staff rally to save Lateline. And Crikey's guide to vigilante justice for iPhone-owning hipsters.
Can ASIO now monitor the whole internet? Err … not quite. Vic Labor’s sex abuse witch-hunt. Whose fault is the budget outcome? Hockey fingers Swan. Morrison mixes with despised despots. We speak to the tabloids' favourite 'firebrand convert'. Top polluters back carbon price. Quiggin: stop chasing AAA ratings. The numbers behind Abbott’s war-time bounce. King’s Tribune calls it a day. Tassie’s forest wars reignite. And mistaken ‘terror teen’ to sue Fairfax?
EXCLUSIVE: The rival firm gunning for ABC broadcast rights. Pyne and Sandilands take out gong for most sexist. How hating Jacqui Lambie is like hating Islamic State. Why you can’t get a damn taxi. The real risk of Muslim alienation. News Corp and Daily Mail agree to a truce -- but both claim victory. Devine wrong on Gillard and the bargain bin. Landcare's ties to the fossil fuel industry? And Harold Holt lives!
Syria strikes turn the terror dial to 11 -- so where to now? Shorten hangs out while Gillard grilled. Keane: Harper review a political shit sandwich. Clive Palmer’s unlikely bestie. Reviewing Australia’s meagre contribution to the UN climate summit. Can Socialists manage an economy? We crunch the French numbers. How Melbourne’s terror attack hit the front pages. Reserve Bank warns of housing pain. And Gillard out-rated by Home and Away.
Keane: Abbott’s speech takes us to a very dark place. Will Mark Scott make ABC cuts as politically damaging as possible? Use the internet, Turnbull tells young TV hopefuls. Andrew Bolt’s barking mad conspiracy. Essential: voters back Iraq push, but think it makes them less safe. Napthine’s political gamble. Questions over Murdoch VC suspension. Muslims hate terrorists, too. Essendon counts its losses. Razer on Brilliant Creatures and why we loathe expats. And ABC drama out-rates Howard
Keane: Brandis concedes some ground on security laws. The heavy-hitters behind Sydney’s anti-bike lanes campaign. Federal police gagged on terror threat. Vic MP in sexting mishap. How John Key could become NZ’s Richard Nixon. The lying rodent is back? Holes all through Howard’s WMD argument. Where Scotland is inspiring separatism. Councils sitting on piles of cash after carbon tax repeal. And Crikey kids interpret Paul Kelly’s favourite political refrain: check out the top entries in our Escalator of Decline competition.
Keane: why yesterday’s terror raids need closer scrutiny. Scotland on a knife-edge but unionism pulling ahead. Eminem threatens to sue as New Zealand’s bizarre election campaign comes to a head. Rundle reviews Garner’s This House of Grief. ‘No negotiation possible’: what next for IS. GetUp’s ice cream for climate activists. Frumpygate: the Tele’s Annette Sharp goes Samantha Armytage … again. News Corp accuses Google of piracy. And is the NFL still worth $1bn to Nine?
