The Latest Breaking News from Crikey

Internal chat logs show how Defence staff crafted the perfect fake monster picture to share on social media this Halloween.

Brittany Higgins received a settlement of $2.4 million from the Commonwealth with no admission of liability, contrary to what she told the Federal Court in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation suit, and broadcaster Alan Jones says he will sue over Nine newspapers’ allegations he indecently assaulted young men.

Both sides of politics seem more interested in using universities to deliver policy agendas rather than guarantee academic freedom.

Court documents show Donald Day Jr, who interacted with Gareth, Stacey and Nathaniel Train on YouTube, allegedly made violent threats online after the trio were killed by police.

Populate and perish, say Crikey readers. Spare us conservative attacks on ‘coercive feminists’ and consider being child-free a blessing not a curse.

An ex-Seven reporter has told Crikey that they ‘feel ashamed to have worked for Seven’, as the blowout from Lehrmann’s rent scandal continues.

Bruce Lehrmann raked in more than half a million dollars from media organisations, and Simon Birmingham, opposition foreign affairs spokesman, will lead a group of cross-party MPs to Israel next week.

‘If people are really, really hungry, and there’s no food. You know what quenches food craving? Chewing tobacco and smoking.’

Genuinely anti-Semitic manifestations need to be investigated and prosecuted. But these must reach a high and explicit standard of targeting as we enter a new era of redefinition.