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Potential tech giant tax welcomed by news outlets, despite lingering questions

A joint select committee has called for the creation of a new ‘Digital Affairs Ministry’ and suggested a big tech tax. Crikey asked media industry figures how they felt about the proposal.

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Queensland LNP’s ‘fresh start’ for youth detention is just a cruel repackaging of failed punitive policies

‘Beneath all of the fancy footwork and buzzwords, it’s just another punitive approach that punishes children for the failures of the state.’

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Trump invokes Hitler (again). Democrats invoke The West Wing (again). Vote counters invoke snipers

If anything, it all just keeps getting worse.

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The rise of Paladin, KPMG’s cameo, and what the NACC isn’t telling us

Just a week after being sent the tender for the Manus contract, Paladin submitted its bid. Its initial quote to provide the services was $152m. After negotiations, Paladin was awarded a revised contract… of $229.5m.

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The campaign by out-of-touch elites to ban abortion is now a federal election issue

Peter Dutton needs to find a way to reassure voters he won’t be changing abortion laws while satisfying extremists in his own ranks who want to end women’s right to choose.

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Elbit: The Israeli killing machine that has been given billions by Australian taxpayers

Elbit Systems, Israel’s biggest defence manufacturer, is at the heart of one of the Australian Defence’s most bizarre moments in recent years.

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Why we’re no longer publishing Guy Rundle

‘At Crikey we regularly criticise other outlets for not being open about their internal machinations, so for both these reasons we wanted to explain (as much as we can) what led to the decision.’

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Australia will soon have second highest global inflation rate: IMF

The International Monetary Fund says Australia’s rate of inflation will soon exceed that of almost all advanced economies, and David Crisafulli finally gives a straight answer on abortion.

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Donald Trump and Peter Dutton have both embraced populism. Are working-class voters buying it?

Changing conditions have given Republicans and Liberals a free hand to make big business — never a popular entity — into a target of populist campaigns.

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Coalition claims to care about ‘productivity’. How many health and care jobs does it think should be cut?

The ‘productivity debate’ is marked by bad faith and wilful misinterpretation by people hostile to workers and ordinary households.

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A $532m security contract and the NACC’s corrosive secrecy

The only thing the NACC’s report into Paladin has revealed is how damaging the commission’s lack of transparency is both for the public and potentially the people investigated.

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Qantas sackings, dodgy banks, gouging companies. Any wonder we hate big business?

Business should stop complaining about being publicly attacked until they’ve cleaned up their act on price gouging, misleading customers, illegally sacking workers and mistreating staff.

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Lidia Thorpe did not yell at Charles Windsor. He is not in the country. It was all AI

Despite media claims to the contrary, Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe did not yell at visiting British billionaire Charles Windsor in Canberra yesterday. There was no such event; Windsor is not even in Australia.

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‘Nowhere near high enough’: Qantas pilots bristle at airline’s $200m fine

‘The general view amongst the pilots is about fucking time’, one Qantas pilot told Crikey. ‘Qantas has gotten away with murder and needs to be held accountable.’

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‘Nowhere near high enough’: Qantas pilots bristle at airline’s $100m+ fine

‘The general view amongst the pilots is about fucking time’, one Qantas pilot told Crikey. ‘Qantas has gotten away with murder and needs to be held accountable.’

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Three reasons America’s democracy is under threat

As the election draws closer, a scandal-plagued candidate may be returned to the presidency. Why is the race still so close?

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Trump is keeping his coup options open. Why isn’t the media paying attention?

The Republican nominee and his billionaire backers are planning, in broad daylight, to steal the 2024 election. And the media doesn’t seem to care.

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Thorpe’s royal protest divides the room

Lidia Thorpe’s protest of the king and queen’s visit has divided opinions, and Qantas could be in line for fines of over $100m.

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Foreign affairs won’t say how many Australians have been killed in Gaza, Lebanon and Israel

DFAT won’t answer Crikey’s questions on the fighting in Israel, Gaza and Lebanon, nor explain on the record why it chooses to remain silent.

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Privacy watchdog targets businesses using AI as it releases best practice guide

Australia’s privacy commissioner has warned she’s ready to take action against businesses that use AI without making privacy a top priority.

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Two out of three Chinatowns in New York are leaning Trump. Here’s why

‘We have traditional family values like Trump. We liked the sound of Trump’s position on law and order and his intention to be tough on crime and supportive of the police.’

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Flipping the bird aside, as Dutton trashes the Liberal brand, teals look even more appealing

Where to for affluent voters who want smaller government and climate action? Certainly not the Liberals, weekend election results suggest.

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Introducing SMOS Watch: Special Minister of State Don Farrell is patient… oh so patient

Don Farrell is special minister of state. Or, at least, that’s what his website says. But it’s strangely lacking in any evidence for it.

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Australians barely have the right to strike thanks to the Labor Party

It used to be completely illegal to strike. But in a cruel irony, legalising industrial action made things much worse.

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Charles and Camilla’s big day out

The royals are continuing their tour Down Under with a visit to Parliament House, and Peter Dutton has announced a new housing policy.

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