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Labor’s frozen ham, Lehrmann lawyer’s weird tweets, and the AFR spits in our faces again

From the bunker this week: Murray Watt endorses ham caps, the sporadic and strange tweets of Steve Whybrow, and Sussan Ley’s grand delusion.

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Turnbull’s a friend in deed for Macron

Former PM Malcolm Turnbull has been building bridges over the troubled waters of Australia and France’s Scott Morrison-shipwrecked relationship, and the News Corp campaign to unseat Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk continues unabated.

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Zen and the very mindful art of Newspoll maintenance

Patience is a virtue and PM Anthony Albanese is doing his best to instill it into the hearts and lives of Australians.

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Australians need to better understand the reality of detainees’ lives

There’s a reason our constitution leaves it to judges, not politicians, to put people in jail for crimes — they aren’t driven by external pressures such as media commentary, populism or political gamesmanship.

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Amazon’s smash-and-grab on cricket is likely to be a sign of things to come

Australians will have to pay to watch the next cricket World Cup after Amazon grabbed the rights to international cricket events until 2027.

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When general store management fails, remote Indigenous communities pay the price

Remote general store managers are stretched out, stressed and under-resourced. As a result, communities are hungry, traumatised and cut-off.

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Hyping the carbon capture con, big consulting firms infest COP28

The Big Six know an opportunity when they see one — and the fossil-fuel industry representatives at COP28 offer a lucrative one.

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Australian newsrooms make different calls on journalists taking Middle East trips

Media companies have come under scrutiny for editorial positions on covering the Israel-Hamas war — but what are their actual policies?

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Journalists’ ‘learnings’ tell the real story of these junkets. If only I’d said yes to some of them

Given the fun senior media figures appear to have had on organised tours of Israel, veteran journalist Mike Carlton imagines how things might have been had he taken up similar offers — to Moscow, for example.

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John Howard’s legacy thwarts progress on voluntary assisted dying

The former PM very deliberately introduced legislation to make it a federal crime to help someone commit suicide.

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The crisis hits home and the proverbial hits the fan for renters and buyers

It’s an open house for Crikey readers on the ‘mess’ the housing industry is in and what needs to be done to fix it.

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Our suburbs are no longer safe from bushfires. Here’s what you can do

It’s a myth that you’re safe from bushfires in the suburbs. If you’re near any type of wild vegetation, your property may be at risk.

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David Van, call me ‘senator sixpack’

David Van, former Liberal now independent ‘senator sixpack’, chatted up women on his official Instagram account using terms such as ‘babe’, ‘hon’ and ‘darling’, and leading No campaigner Jacinta Nampijinpa Price knocked back requests for interviews from the ABC at least 52 times.

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Anti-offshore wind farm fishing group is chaired by a former Liberal MP

The Australian Fishing Trade Association says it’s non-partisan after a Greenpeace investigation found links to the Liberal Party.

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No power, no backup, no store, no food. Business as usual for a remote general store

When systems fail in a remote general store, the closest fix is 452km away. Until help comes, it’s on the store manager to come up with a solution.

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Strategic partnerships, donations and prosecutions: Is Austal a good investment?

Would you invest your super in an arms company? Labor would like you to do just that, it says.

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A 500g tin of Nescafe Blend 43 = $40. Meet the companies feeding remote communities

General stores in remote communities control the quality, quantity, range and cost of what’s on the shelves. As the only shop in town, they wield a lot of power over Indigenous lives.

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Lifting the productivity of health workers and economists — a comparative study

How do you measure the productivity of economists? At least in healthcare, we know one guaranteed way of improving performance.

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Vote now for Crikey’s prestigious Arsehat of the Year

At the end of every year, we summon the last of our energy to ask ‘why is it like this?’ Vote now for your culprit in Crikey’s Arsehat of the Year award.

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Hope springs eternal for Sussan Ley

Sussan Ley says Australians have moved on from the Scott Morrison era and the Libs plan to win back every teal seat they lost, and undercover police officers were left out in the cold by the AFP, putting their lives at risk.

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As the media lends legitimacy to a radicalised right, immigrants are under attack

Around the world, fringe political views — especially on migration — are going mainstream, and the once unsayable is becoming commonplace.

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‘Overreach from the start’: Security monitor drops a bomb on secrecy act

An independent review has savaged the legislation used to attempt to cover up the trial of Bernard Collaery and called for significant amendments.

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Yes, Kissinger was a monster — but only one of a succession of them

Henry Kissinger’s death at 100 provides an opportunity to assess his record: he was a monster who murdered people on an industrial scale.

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China’s moves in the shadow of the Middle East

China has a strong trade relationship with Israel but is also pushing its pro-Muslim credentials as the Gaza conflict continues.

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