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Paul Fletcher’s grand conspiracy theory is the most interesting thing he’s ever said

Paul Fletcher — a nullity of a politician who has occupied Bradfield for 15 years — is panicking over being replaced by a community independent.

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Long COVID is becoming a serious social and economic issue for Australia

Addressing this health challenge is vital to getting many people back participating fully in their lives.

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‘As vicious as anything I had ever seen’: Robert Manne on being News Corp’s target

“According to John Kidd, my ‘intellectual arrogance’ was ‘breathtaking’. According to John McCarthy, it was not The Australian I disliked, it was ‘the Australian people’.”

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Life without Bill Shorten: Labor eyes frontbench reshuffle

Anthony Albanese is considering a new-year cabinet shake-up following the retirement of Bill Shorten, and the housing market appears to finally be losing steam.

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It’s true, the kids are not alright. But they never have been

Was there ever a collection of young people who weren’t described as depressed and doomed?

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Qantas and Virgin pilots only want one thing this Christmas

Who’s playing naughty, and who’s playing nice?

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Australia has passed the teen social media ban. Now, the hard part — making sure it helps, not hurts

The Albanese government’s success in passing the teen social media ban is the start, not the end, of a process that will include a lot of difficult decisions.

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Raygun, Brat, and The Bear: Canberra’s Press Gallery turns to memes amid election season

As the Senate dealt with ‘real’ politics, the water cooler politics of the parliamentary press gallery was also heating up. Crikey was in the hallways for the gossip.

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Labor ends the year with a flurry of legislation good, bad and indifferent

The end-of-year flood of legislation is a mixed bag of good and bad policy, but Labor delivered much of its agenda.

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Why is no one talking about the politicisation of public sector plants!?

After Gina Rinehart made the cogent suggestion that the public sector sell all its pot plants, please enjoy this… sigh… potted history of plant-based controversies.

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Birmingham was a failed moderate who leaves a legacy of rolling over and letting the right win

Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham was a leading moderate, or so we were repeatedly told. But what does he have to show for it?

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No, we shouldn’t abolish the NACC — the problem is with its leader, not the institution itself

The National Anti-Corruption Commission isn’t perfect, but under better management it could be a real threat to the corrupt.

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Yes, we should abolish the NACC — it doesn’t even know what corruption is

The commissioner of the anti-corruption commission does not seem to know — or wilfully attempts to redefine — what corruption actually is.

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Incredible 32-bill day ends parliamentary sitting year

Parliament has adjourned for the year with the final day seeing an astounding 32 bills passed, and opposition Senate leader Simon Birmingham has called time on his political career.

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Pro-Palestine activist alleges The Australian defamed them

The Australian appears set to fight a defamation proceeding brought by a pro-Palestine activist this week.

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Labor’s term began with promise on the environment. It ends with things worse than ever

The harsh lesson of this term of Parliament is that no major-party government can be trusted to take real climate action.

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Driver licence, Digital ID can still be collected by social media companies under amended teen ban bill

The government has made changes to its signature legislation as it attempts to get it turned into law.

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Labor voted against the Libs’ immigration detention phone ban twice. Now it’s pitching a very similar proposal

‘It’s still, in substance, very much the Coalition’s bill from 2017 and 2020,’ the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s Jana Favero told Crikey.

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This is how Joe Rogan helped propel Trump to the White House

In his bid to court the ‘bro vote’, Trump engaged dozens of podcasters and streamers on the political fringe who share a common audience of young, politically disengaged men.

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Election denial rife in Democrats, the most WA of scandals, and when is statue theft not news?

Plus Crikey gets to the bottom of those damn ‘happy junior friYAYYY!’ emails.

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Lidia Thorpe suspended after racism row with Pauline Hanson

The independent senator threw pieces of paper at Hanson after the One Nation leader questioned Fatima Payman’s Senate eligibility, and there are still a least 37 bills the government wants to ram through on the last sitting day.

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Voters know the benefits of migration and want cuts anyway. And they’ll get what they want

Even if Labor had succeeded in curbing migration over the past 12 months, you can bet Peter Dutton would be promising that the Coalition would always be tougher on migration than its opponents

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‘Deeply repulsive’: ABC chair Kim Williams rails against Joe Rogan amid pitch for greater funding

ABC chair Kim Williams faced the National Press Club today, during which he pitched for funding and railed against podcaster Joe Rogan.

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The teen social media ban is incredibly popular. Here are some of the reasons why

No matter how you slice it, the majority of Australians say they want kids off social media. And their reasons are more nuanced than you might expect

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We already know how the social media ban might look in practice. And it involves handing over government ID

The government has intentionally left the details of the teen social media ban to be figured out later. But the behaviour of big tech companies provides some clues as to how it could work.

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