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Local news websites accused of using AI to rip off other outlets’ articles

Articles from Queensland local news sites are strikingly similar to content from the ABC, the government and even from a US-based newspaper for a city that shares a name with an Australian town.

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The office commute: The journalists that went to the dark side

Katharine Murphy’s departure from Guardian Australia ruffled feathers, but she’s not alone in crossing over to politics from the media.

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Book bannings the canary in the coal mine — and Australia could be next

The restriction of reading material — particularly books that deal with topics like race and sexuality — has become a major culture war issue in North America. And one author is ‘certain’ it could happen in Australia.

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‘World’s most controversial company’ Clearview AI still being used to solve Australian police cases

A Crikey investigation reveals that the Australian Federal Police has provided case materials that were then analysed using Clearview AI’s technology that the agency can’t use.

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Media banned as Fitzgibbon and Sinodinos hit the road to ‘unleash’ the power of AUKUS

The ex-ministers are criss-crossing the country to promote a business group focused on AUKUS, but media is not allowed at any events.

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MP blames unspecified ‘error’ for Sri Lanka trip disclosure published several months too late

Opposition multicultural affairs spokesman Jason Wood went on a trip to Sri Lanka paid for by the government in Colombo in July. Voters weren’t made aware until December.

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Wong bound for Israel

Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong will fly to the Middle East today where she will meet victims of Israeli and Hamas violence, and the Victorian government bailed out Tennis Australia to the tune of $63 million.

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Gina Rinehart tried to censor Crikey articles using ‘ridiculous’ trademark request to tech companies

A Hancock spokesperson denied that the company had tried to censor Crikey’s reporting, instead blaming a third party who “inadvertently” filed takedown requests on their behalf.

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Schwartz Media sells The Politics to former Junkee boss

The Monthly’s popular daily column will be spun off by Piers Grove, whose last publishing venture saw a mass exodus of staff.

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Renewable projects, not fossil fuels, are being vetoed under Australia’s crap environmental laws

The Albanese government’s decision to block Victoria’s wind farm plant wasn’t a bad one. But it’s not a consistent one either.

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On statelessness: What does it actually mean to be a citizen?

Statelessness is already a difficult concept to determine — and Australia’s way of defining it only muddies the waters further.

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No byline, no right of reply: Inside News Corp’s Bluey genocide beat-up

Omar Sakr’s poem ‘Bluey in the genocide’ sparked predictably insidious coverage from the right-wing outrage machine.

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‘Vulnerable and frightened’: Rising anti-Semitism in Australia requires a sensitive media

Reporting on misinformation is important, but we must not lose sight of the pressing reality of rising anti-Semitism in Australia.

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Partying like it’s 1978: Inflation and its discontents dominated 2023

Falling inflation around the world has shown just how out of touch the Reserve Bank and many commentators are with how modern economies function.

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‘Torn up and cancelled’: Mardi Gras abandons agreement with police

Mardi Gras members have voted overwhelmingly for a motion that called for ‘the removal of drug dogs, the condemnation of so-called decency checks, and a stance towards police abolition in solidarity with worldwide justice movements’.

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New Zealand’s PM has expressed interest in joining AUKUS pillar two. What would it mean?

There are risks and opportunities involved in New Zealand’s pivot towards sharing military tech under AUKUS pillar two.

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Australia looks ‘weak’ if it can’t solve ‘hostage crisis’ of man jailed in Iraq

On January 2, Robert Pether will mark 1,000 days in an Iraqi cell. His lawyer says the federal government has to ‘up its game’.

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War criminals, surgeons, Murdoch: What a wild defamation year we had in 2023

Defamation law had a 2023 to remember, with some of the biggest cases in Australian history coming before the courts.

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Dan Andrews for federal Parliament? Rumours fly as Dunkley reels from death of MP Peta Murphy

It’s difficult to say who might be preselected to defend the Labor seat — but the Victorian ex-premier has been mentioned as a contender.

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Women left feeling ‘betrayed’ and ‘devastated’ by NDIS review

‘What is the point of having a national strategy for gender equality, a national strategy to eliminate violence against women, and then this review comes out and there’s nothing.’

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US and UK nuclear waste coming here

A ‘low-level radioactive waste management’ facility is planned for near Perth and US and UK nuclear waste could be stored here as early as 2027, and the latest Newspoll has Labor leading the Coalition 52% to 48% two-party-preferred.

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‘Thought they could do what they want’: How PwC went from ‘untouchable’ to pariah

The fall from grace of accounting giant PwC was one of the defining stories of 2023, with the saga forever having shaped the public’s understanding of the billions spent on consultancy.

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The race is on to transform Australia’s environmental protection laws

Despite talking a big talk on addressing global warming, the laws intended to protect our vital natural habitats do not bind the government to consider climate change.

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The most cooked morsels of 2023 politics

Crikey is going to make you earn your break this year, with another rundown of the dumbest moments in the politics of 2023.

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‘Labor’s lost interest in transparency’: Another year of a broken FOI scheme

Some gains but many losses in freedom of information requests from Labor as calls for transparency become words used only in opposition.

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