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Talkfest overpowered by stench from the rotting corpse of neoliberalism

Politicians show they don't get it as talkfest doesn't solve our problems.

McCain’s frozen peace: why the media swooned for a Republican’s cliched US exceptionalism

McCain's rhetoric leant heavily on the idea of the "bully". “Bullying” has come, rather craftily, to signify anything one doesn’t like, from the stuff I write in Crikey to the PRC’s economic growth, writes Helen Razer.

The Australian Financial Review is offensively wrong on indigenous Australians

The Australian Financial review has illustrated just how ignorant white Australians are about the real state of indigenous outcomes.

Former ASIO director-general Duncan Lewis (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

How the right turned on ASIO

All of a sudden Australia's right wing seems to have fallen out of love with our chief spy agency.

EXCLUSIVE: <b>Helen Razer</b> has the inside scoop on Jack Nicholson's latest feature project in which the two-time best actor Oscar-winner plays Tasmanian Senator Eric Abetz.

Huge if True, episode 4: Eric Abetz gets the star treatment

EXCLUSIVE: Helen Razer has the inside scoop on Jack Nicholson's latest feature project in which the two-time best actor Oscar-winner plays Tasmanian Senator Eric Abetz.

EXCLUSIVE: detailed account of Schapelle's movements since returning to Oz

SPOILER ALERT: at 8.24am, Schapelle put bread in a toaster.

Razer: how the fogies sold Millennials a lie, then sold them out

Last week, Helen Razer accepted an invitation to a Millennial Marketing conference in Melbourne’s Federation Square and, no, she doesn’t know how her name got on their list, either.

Noble gatekeepers of tradition and good morals suit up for (culture) war in Senate estimates

Eric Abetz has some questions for those lefty head honchos at the ABC and SBS. Crikey journalists Josh Taylor and Emily Watkins report.

Victims of the Lindt cafe siege deserve better than 'lessons learned'

There remains a need for a proper independent inquiry into the Lindt cafe siege. What we've had so far is insufficient and fails victims.

News Corp and 'acceptable homosexuals' throw radical queers under the pride bus

News Corp columnist Shannon Molloy recently got into a bit of a tussle with a couple of "unacceptable homosexuals". The upshot of this stoush for queer politics is significant.