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‘Best thing I’ve ever done in my life’: Meet the people who demanded freedom for Assange

For years, ‘Assangeavists’ have given their time, money and energy to campaigning for Julian Assange’s freedom. What will they do next?

Trump immune to interference charges

Trump immune to interference charges

The former US president will not be charged for allegedly interfering in the 2020 election, and Fatima Payman is considering a new ‘teal-style’ political organisation.

‘Fuck Mike Sneesby’: Nine staff incensed at mass job cuts

‘Fuck Mike Sneesby’: Nine staff incensed at mass job cuts

Sources telling Crikey that staff anger is ‘white hot’.

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Former Nationals staffer and oil-for-wheat scandal figure leads anti-wind farm pushback

Before campaigning against a WA offshore wind farm, Darryl Hockey was denying his knowing involvement in the Australian Wheat Board’s disgrace.

Sacre bleu! Crikey’s French is horrifiqué!

Our beloved readers scream bloody merde and won’t put up with our shit. Excuse the French.

The Nightly set to avoid pain of $100m Seven West job cuts

Kerry Stokes’ new digital newspaper darling reportedly won’t be affected by looming job losses at Seven West Media.

Piss-based hijinks at News Corp, Tucker Carlson’s victory lap, and how to bake a pie chart

When a tipster told us what used to go on at Holt St at the turn of the century, we thought they must have been taking the piss.

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Australia’s archive of the internet is being filled up with AI-generated spam

Australia’s archive of the internet is being filled up with AI-generated spam

The National Library of Australia is collecting thousands of snapshots of pages featuring language like ‘as a AI language model’ and ‘as of my last knowledge update’.

Hey, you! Crikey is hiring a Readers’ Editor

Hey, you! Crikey is hiring a Readers’ Editor

Crikey is currently recruiting for an exciting new role we hope will further engage and involve our readers.

Kean’s climate coup

Kean’s climate coup

Matt Kean’s appointment as chair of the Climate Change Authority has pissed off his Coalition co-workers, and UNESCO warns Australia to do more to protect the Great Barrier Reef.

AI-generated news is unhuman slop. Crikey is banning it

AI-generated news is unhuman slop. Crikey is banning it

Until artificial intelligence can generate a headline as incisive or beautiful as ‘Pissing in the Sink’, we will never use it to write our articles.

Groceries Are 39% More Expensive For Communities In Remote Areas & The Govt Needs To Do Something

“Your current crisis is what we’re used to. In community, it’s now three times that.”

Dutton’s energy plan to cost $97 billion as we wait for nukes to lumber into action

Dutton’s energy plan to cost $97 billion as we wait for nukes to lumber into action

Australia is facing a $97 billion bill for Peter Dutton’s energy policy — on generous assumptions, that is.

World Bank warns that Palestinian economy on the verge of collapse in the wake of Gaza war

World Bank warns that Palestinian economy on the verge of collapse in the wake of Gaza war

The Palestinian economy is currently losing about $20 million every day due to the complete cessation of production in the Gaza Strip and disruption in the West Bank.

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Australia’s plan to curb plastic pollution has failed miserably

The industry wants to blame consumers for its problems, one environmentalist told Crikey.

Tourism Australia drops immunity claim as federal police begins investigating the agency

Exclusive: Just a day after the corruption watchdog announced it wouldn’t investigate Tourism Australia, Crikey can reveal the Australian Federal Police has now been called in.

Axes still swinging at News Corp, some wacky OAMs, and a stupid white bastard trademark bid

Plus: real estate agent seeks donations from tenants to help the homeless!

NACC confirms it’s scrapping its Tourism Australia investigation. Now the agency is out of excuses

Exclusive: The National Anti-Corruption Commission has revealed it won’t look into Tourism Australia’s private holiday scandal, just a week after the existence of such an investigation was used to prevent the Senate from asking questions.

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Taxpayers spent $77.5m to educate new teachers. Only a few hundred remain in schools

Many teachers trained through Teach for Australia now work at elite schools instead of the disadvantaged ones where they placed. Critics wonder if the effort is worth the money.

‘She has no choice’: NACC called in to investigate Tourism Australia after holiday expenses scandal

After Crikey revealed three staff went on private holidays using $137k of taxpayer funds, Tourism Australia has now confirmed the NACC is involved.

Gerard Henderson provides comment a dog could dine out on

Plus: the Liberals are turning on themselves!

Privatisation is ruining Australia’s aviation sector

Qantas pilots say rampant cost-cutting at Perth Airport has led to nothing working like it should.

How do ScoMo’s book sales compare to literally any other political memoir?

Crikey has obtained Morrison’s book sales data to date, and compared them with the first-month figures for some of his closest friends.

Australian children’s television production has tanked. Blame Paul Fletcher.

Bluey won’t save us — the latest ACMA report shows the devastating consequences of the Coalition’s decision to remove local content quotas for children’s television in 2021.

‘Too little, too late’: Qantas begs pilots to stay with retention payments worth $18,000 a year

Pilots at Qantas subsidiaries, who are being lured by better salary conditions at rival companies, are turning down retention bonuses amid ongoing pay disputes.

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