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MYEFO to condemn Labor to deficit

Australia is set to roll back into deficit when the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook is released tomorrow, and the government has handed the ABC a $40m funding increase.

We sure love paying the rotting heart of America’s opioid crisis for health advice

We sure love paying the rotting heart of America’s opioid crisis for health advice

Why are governments continuing to hire McKinsey, the most rotten consulting firm on the planet?

Introducing Crikey’s 2024 Shitstirrer Index

Introducing Crikey’s 2024 Shitstirrer Index

Crikey honours those who made trouble, spoke truths and punched up in 2024.

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A radio host, a columnist, a group of protesters: Revealing the first luminaries of Crikey’s Shitstirrers Index

After parsing more than 1,000 nominations, Crikey presents our first few inaugural shitstirrers.

Meme-aganda: 2024 as told through 10 godawful ALP posts

It sure was meme-y under Albanese.

What’s your favourite journalist’s favourite piece of journalism?

From Paul Barry to Alan Kohler to Sally Neighbour, we asked 200 of the nation’s most influential media figures about the best pieces of journalism they’ve read lately.

Dutton’s nuclear promises billions for fossil fuels and a smaller economy for the rest of us

John Howard once warned climate action would lead to a smaller economy. Now Peter Dutton promises a smaller economy with no action.

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Albanese squares up to Zuckerberg… but capitulates to Murdoch

Albanese squares up to Zuckerberg… but capitulates to Murdoch

Once again, Australian media policy seems to have conformed to the golden rule: ‘what News Corp wants, News Corp gets’.

Remaining Bali Nine members return to Australia after 19 years

Remaining Bali Nine members return to Australia after 19 years

Australia and Indonesia struck a deal to return home the final remaining members of the Bali Nine drug trafficking group, and the mid-year fiscal update is showing bad news for Jim Chalmers.

Moira Deeming’s defamation win shows nobody can play fast and loose with language — not even politicians

Moira Deeming’s defamation win shows nobody can play fast and loose with language — not even politicians

It is incumbent on all speakers in the public sphere to be very clear in their language. If not, the law will provide a remedy.

‘Sounds like it’s pretty damning’: Tourism Australia staff brace for audit report

‘Sounds like it’s pretty damning’: Tourism Australia staff brace for audit report

Australia’s national auditor has been looking into Tourism Australia for months. Its report will be released on Monday.

Dutton’s nuclear plan: An energy grid powered by endless spin

Dutton’s nuclear plan: An energy grid powered by endless spin

The commercial media have dutifully queued up to accept Peter Dutton’s carefully planned ‘taking out the rubbish’ announcement on nuclear power.

Is sexual assault and harassment on the decline in mining? The evidence is ‘mixed’

Is sexual assault and harassment on the decline in mining? The evidence is ‘mixed’

For years the stories, then the surveys, then the reports, emerged about the mistreatment of women in the mining industry. But little has changed.

Australia’s media movers and shakers on who survives in Australian journalism

Australia’s media movers and shakers on who survives in Australian journalism

From Jordan Baker to Justin Stevens, we asked 200 of the nation’s most influential media figures who will survive in this media climate and what they have to do to tough it out.

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Why is Rex Airlines being sued? And why is the government still bailing it out?

Despite ASIC investigating Rex over ‘serious governance failures’, the government is still propping it up. Now what?

Forget migration ‘benefits’. Convince people that restrictions harm everyone

Migration restrictions always serve dual purposes: to exclude and repel some, while ensuring the unequal inclusion of the vast majority.

Hopes dwindle of rates cut

The opposition leader will announce the costings behind his nuclear plans today after months of stalling, and brief hopes of a February rate cut have already faded.

Jonathan Haidt lobbied politicians by accusing teen social media ban critics of ‘burying’ evidence

Best-selling author Jonathan Haidt publicly thanks his sceptics for their part in academic debate. In private, he alleges they ‘consistently’ bury evidence.

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Anxious Generation’s Jonathan Haidt privately told politician that researchers hid teen social media harm effects

Best-selling author Jonathan Haidt publicly thanks his sceptics for their part in academic debate. In private, he alleges they ‘consistently’ bury evidence.

Jonathan Haidt lobbied politicians by accusing teen social media ban critics of ‘burying’ evidence

Best-selling author Jonathan Haidt publicly thanks his sceptics for their part in academic debate. In private, he alleges they ‘consistently’ bury evidence.

Labor elevates early childhood education as Coalition tells regions: less childcare for you

This issue represents the rare intersection of good policy and good politics. Surely even Labor couldn’t stuff it up?

Kimberly Guilfoyle’s character gets written out of the Trump sitcom

As Donald Trump makes international appointments based on his eldest son’s dating life, his nominees edge closer to confirmation.

Nicolette Boele ‘gave up’ on politics over Labor’s climate inaction. Now she wants to win a Liberal seat

Outgoing Bradfield MP Paul Fletcher has called the teals a ‘Green left con job’. Independent candidate Nicolette Boele says it shows the Liberals have learnt nothing from 2022.

Law and order crackdown won’t make Jews safer

Jewish communities deserve real protection — not a false sense of security purchased at the expense of other marginalised groups.

Law and order crackdown won’t make Jewish community safer

Jewish communities deserve real protection — not a false sense of security purchased at the expense of other marginalised groups.

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