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A flower memorial near the Masjid Al Noor (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)

The endless multicultural vigil outside the Masjid Al Noor

The solidarity and compassion on display in Christchurch is a hopeful reminder that the fascists won't win easy. 

Brenton Tarrant appearing before the Christchurch District Court for murder.  (Image: AAP/Mark Mitchell)

Not lone wolf nor automaton: the Christchurch terrorist doesn't fit old narratives

It's time to abandon old assumptions to see clearly what’s happened, and what’s coming.

Scott Morrison with Imam Shaykh Yahya Safi and Immigration Minister David Coleman (Image: AAP/Dan Himbrechts)

The call is coming from inside the house

A white supremacist killer has again shown us the violent hatred that lurks inside us. Don’t turn away without acknowledging it.

Across the Tasman and into a land of common sense and kindness

As a Crikey reporter battled a tight stopover in the rush to get to Christchurch, New Zealanders helped her get home to tell their story.

British Prime Minister Theresa May (Image: EPA/UK Parliament)

May and her cabinet should resign immediately

A "backstop" agreement has undone Theresa May's chances of avoiding further chaos. She should now resign.

A Papuan activist with his forehead painted with banned separatist flag the "Morning Star". (Image: AP/Trisnadi)

West Papua is this generation’s Timor-Leste

Will Australia ultimately intervene in West Papua like it did in Timor-Leste? Or will the government turn a blind eye in favour of its recent free trade deal with Indonesia?

Welcome to the new Milibandism

While Bill Shorten's campaign has echoes of Ed Miliband's ill-fated 2015 UK Labour platform, Shorten has a secret weapon: Scott Morrison.

(Image: Unsplash/Daniele Salutari)

Six decades on we are still turning a blind eye to Tibet

As the anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising comes and goes once again, Australia's response to the continuing fallout is a deafening silence.

Life in the Gaza strip (Image: AP/Hatem Moussa)

How Palestine's aid budget fell victim to a curious legal case

A rot has developed in the Palestinian aid debate and it's hurting everyday people.

Michael Cohen leaving Federal court (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Cohen testimony is colourful, but what does it achieve?

People know Trump is a "liar" and a "cheat". That's precisely why they voted for him. They thought he'd lie and cheat on their behalf.