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Which Australian media outlets are leaving X for Bluesky?

Australian media outlets have lagged behind the rest of the world in moving to Bluesky, as news organisations deal with an increasingly hostile environment on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

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Alan Jones still online face of TV channel, an IPA warrior’s packed CV, and Sweden goes bananas

Conservative television brand ADH TV retain Alan Jones as one of their prominent faces, Bunnings’ scare campaign and much more in this week’s Tips and Murmurs.

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Emails reveal how Labor engineered event to support its own teen social media ban

Exclusive: A senior advisor to the SA premier emailed Jonathan Haidt saying that the state’s social media summit was being run ‘with the intent of building momentum’ for a social media ban.

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Coalition assurances on abortion mean nothing: History shows how women could be targeted

Peter Dutton’s assurances there would be no change to abortion laws under his government are belied by the history of the Liberal party, which has traded parliamentary votes for abortion restrictions.

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Simon Holmes à Court on Climate 200, donation reforms and why Kerry Stokes wields more power than he does

Labor’s electoral reforms are framed around diluting the influence of Simon Holmes à Court. But the Climate 200 founder says this will only cut the legs out from under independent challengers.

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Mass arrests, home raids, excess force: Police treatment of Land Forces protesters could lead to class action

Crikey speaks to protesters who say they were targeted by militarised policing — including being photographed from helicopters, monitored by drones and subjected to intimidating raids.

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Future Fund to focus on housing, climate

Australia’s sovereign wealth fund will have a mandate to consider national priorities under a new statement of expectations made by Labor, and UK-made missiles have been fired by Ukraine into Russia.

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Lonelier, unhappier but more welcoming: Younger Australians are a different people altogether

The divide between younger and older Australians is stark on a number of issues — perhaps most of all on how they feel about Australia and who is welcome here.

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Da pacem, Domine: Why Trump is what democracy needs

Alexander the Great is back, only this time he’s wearing a suit and tie.

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The communications minister cited a study in support of a teen social media ban. Its co-author disagrees

University of Oxford professor Andrew Przybylski says the government has ‘misunderstood the purpose and findings of our research’.

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Sydney’s train strikes are Labor’s fault for abolishing wage caps, says former Liberal minister

Andrew Constance said the abolition of NSW’s public sector wage cap has been a ‘disaster’, and urged the train union to sit at the negotiating table.

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Trumpette, Liberal Party VP and expert room reader: Who is Teena McQueen?

From jokes about sexual harassment to being Q+A’s worst-ever panellist, enjoy this recap of the baffling public life of Teena McQueen.

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Peter Dutton wants you to hate foreign students

Peter Dutton has dug into his book of racist smears to launch a campaign of demonisation against foreign students.

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The new misinfo bill has been misunderstood — it won’t censor your conspiracy-loving aunt on Facebook

When you want to regulate a harm online, you first have to define it.

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‘Rights are not handed on a platter’: You can now read 200 history-making speeches by Australian women

Some of the rousing speeches by women in the Madam Speaker archive hit just as hard in 2024 as they did in the 1800s.

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No longer Jonestown? The diminished political power of Alan Jones

The 83-year-old former shock jock still has friends in high places. But his Monday arrest shows just how far the once-mighty has fallen.

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G20 leaders decry ‘not strong enough’ consensus on Russian war in Ukraine

Leaders at the G20 in Brazil are expressing disappointment in the summit’s weak stance on Russia, and Australia is making its pitch as a safe space for investment in renewables.

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To build support, it might be time for the Greens to hang up their movement-style approach to politics

The Greens cannot take for granted that disaffected major party voters, and more specifically disaffected Labor voters, will choose them.

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Documents reveal what the ABC spends on legal fees — but Aunty won’t say how much Lattouf fight has cost

One Sydney barrister estimates the national broadcaster has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting journalist Antoinette Lattouf in court.

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Who’s paying for our trillion-dollar climate transition, and why are there so many oil lobbyists at COP29?

In the shadow of Trump’s reelection, this year’s UN climate conference is all about money — and the sums are truly staggering.

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Australia’s online safety regulator keeps avoiding endorsing the government’s teen social media ban

The government’s proposed teen social media ban has put eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant in an awkward spot.

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Australia’s online safety regulator keeps avoiding endorsing the government’s teen social media ban

The government’s proposed teen social media ban has put eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant in an awkward spot.

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Dutton copies Trump on foreign students as Labor’s migration failure becomes clear

Voters understand that migration is complex and cutting it isn’t a panacea. What a pity politicians don’t seem to get it.

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If you want to see Alan Jones tried fairly, shut up!

As soon as the news of Jones’ arrest broke, social media rained speculation, invective and schadenfreude.

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Albo and Xi patch up the past

Anthony Albanese and Chinese President Xi Jinping met at the G20 summit with both countries committing to stability, and the Coalition has voted against Labor’s cap on international student numbers.

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