In which Crikey becomes one about 10 people to have seen the first lady's new vanity project. The post Sitting through the Hoyts Highpoint screening of ‘Melania’, staring into the
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From Bernard Collaery to David McBride, the evidence shows Australia’s whistleblower framework punishes disclosure while shielding executive power. read now...
Jim Chalmers talks a lot about tax reform, but this is a government so timid the chances of it doing anything meaningful are small. Instead, it prefers to hand out
There are a lot of people who comfort themselves by thinking that the Commonwealth government’s $1 trillion of debt is not that large a proportion of GDP, especially when compared to some of the more indebted nations such as the US, Japan, and several other European nations.
But then you add in the roughly $600 billion of debt held by the states and ...
For much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, an extraordinary variety of publications served as arenas of managed disagreement across the West. They were rarely neutral and often partisan, but they were nonetheless intellectually pluralist. Editors assumed that educated readers could tolerate internal contradiction and that truth emerged through ...
All that and more in this week's politics news. The post On Notice: Parliament’s back, RBA reveals rates, and Albo in Indo appeared first on Crikey.
Most readers will be familiar with the now disused practices of stocks, pillories, public flogging, tarring and feathering, and other public corporal punishments and shaming.
These practices have ancient origins but persisted until the late 1800s in the Anglosphere. Even today, local equivalents continue in other parts of the world. The commonly used ...
The numbers show Andrew Hastie is far better placed to start winning back lost Liberal voters than Angus Taylor, who might briefly lead the Liberals but can't fix their problems.
An anarcho-communist from Ballarat suddenly developed a keen interest in Philippine flood recovery corruption. In fact, it's part of an AI-powered troll farm. The post Fake ‘Australian’ social media army
Outside of mortgage repayments, motor vehicle rego charges, and council rates, politics is like an annoying blowfly that interrupts the lives of most battler families.
With the Albanese Labor government’s free-for-all spending spree finally butting up against the irrefutable laws of economics, however, it’s all about to come crashing down on battlers’ ...
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
Show of Sovereign Strength on Gadigal for Invasion Day 2026
This year’s demonstration may have been the biggest ever, despite the ongoing threat of a protest ban.
Click here to read the article
The Public Safety Order Regime in New South Wales
Police imposed public safety ...
It's getting hotter, but politicians — and crucially, the press that pushed them — don't seem to care. It's all the result of the slow but steady collapse of global
In which Crikey becomes one about 10 people to have seen the first lady's new vanity project. The post Sitting through the Hoyts Highpoint screening of ‘Melania’, staring into the
From Bernard Collaery to David McBride, the evidence shows Australia’s whistleblower framework punishes disclosure while shielding executive power. read now...
Jim Chalmers talks a lot about tax reform, but this is a government so timid the chances of it doing anything meaningful are small. Instead, it prefers to hand out
There are a lot of people who comfort themselves by thinking that the Commonwealth government’s $1 trillion of debt is not that large a proportion of GDP, especially when compared to some of the more indebted nations such as the US, Japan, and several other European nations.
But then you add in the roughly $600 billion of debt held by the states and ...
For much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, an extraordinary variety of publications served as arenas of managed disagreement across the West. They were rarely neutral and often partisan, but they were nonetheless intellectually pluralist. Editors assumed that educated readers could tolerate internal contradiction and that truth emerged through ...
All that and more in this week's politics news. The post On Notice: Parliament’s back, RBA reveals rates, and Albo in Indo appeared first on Crikey.
Most readers will be familiar with the now disused practices of stocks, pillories, public flogging, tarring and feathering, and other public corporal punishments and shaming.
These practices have ancient origins but persisted until the late 1800s in the Anglosphere. Even today, local equivalents continue in other parts of the world. The commonly used ...
The numbers show Andrew Hastie is far better placed to start winning back lost Liberal voters than Angus Taylor, who might briefly lead the Liberals but can't fix their problems.
An anarcho-communist from Ballarat suddenly developed a keen interest in Philippine flood recovery corruption. In fact, it's part of an AI-powered troll farm. The post Fake ‘Australian’ social media army
Outside of mortgage repayments, motor vehicle rego charges, and council rates, politics is like an annoying blowfly that interrupts the lives of most battler families.
With the Albanese Labor government’s free-for-all spending spree finally butting up against the irrefutable laws of economics, however, it’s all about to come crashing down on battlers’ ...
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
Show of Sovereign Strength on Gadigal for Invasion Day 2026
This year’s demonstration may have been the biggest ever, despite the ongoing threat of a protest ban.
Click here to read the article
The Public Safety Order Regime in New South Wales
Police imposed public safety ...
It's getting hotter, but politicians — and crucially, the press that pushed them — don't seem to care. It's all the result of the slow but steady collapse of global