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Crikey readers on why they pay for independent journalism

‘Crikey tells me the facts. In a country dominated by the Murdoch press, that’s rare.’

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Judge denies request for new trial in high-profile murder case

This content discusses a juror's allegation of tampering in a high-profile trial, exploring the judge's decision and the challenges of obtaining a new tria...

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How the Outrage Right uses January 26 as a weapon of division

Increasingly, Invasion Day is used as a deliberate tool of division by the right, in which the performance of jingoism is made compulsory.

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Kim Williams is more than just a former Murdoch boss, but his new role does not make it his ABC

The public broadcaster is under siege. Williams must focus on bringing staff and management together again

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(C)old friends: How Lachlan is leading Murdoch media back to a triumphant Trump

Trump has forced the Murdochs to choose between money and power — and Lachlan has chosen the money.

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Don’t Fall For Peter Dutton’s Grift: People Fighting Over Culture Wars Is What He Wants

Peter Dutton started a culture war about Woolworths' Australia Day catalogue. Here's why we need to be weary of outrage media.

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There is a reason Starmer is under fire for his record as a lawyer – and a good reason he should defend it

The scrutiny is inevitable given he has used his past to political benefit. But he should stand up for the system he was part of, says author and legal affairs specialist Robert Kerkaik

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News Corp leads the right from ‘No to division’ to ‘no to diversity’

News Corp’s pivot following the Voice defeat says a great deal about where the company will go in the future under Lachlan Murdoch.

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The curious case of Seven’s voice artwork, ABC licks wounds after defamation loss

The work created for SBS voice portal used during 7Plus referendum coverage. Plus: Courier Mail goes rosy over newsreader’s wedding proposal

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Don’t just blame politicians and the media for the Voice loss: voters took the No road

Yes, misinformation was presented with little or no scrutiny. But Crikey readers say it was Aussies who booted the referendum into the bin.

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I mourn the loss of Australia’s Indigenous voice vote – and won’t forgive the media’s mendacity

The polls had been favourable until a brutal press campaign kicked in against this kindly, long-overdue change, says novelist Thomas Keneally

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First Nations journalists brace for voice referendum coverage they can’t tap out of

Indigenous staff at the ABC say they’re proud of their work at the reporting unit but it continues to take a huge toll. Plus: The Australian wins big at News Corp’s in-house awards

The Guardian - AU

‘It was electrifying’: the inside story of Labour’s 1997 election landslide

Paranoia, relentless activity, infighting – the people who saw it all look back on the dizzying days that made political history

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The Voice promises more efficient government, but try telling the No camp that

Why don’t conservative No supporters want a less powerful, more efficient government? Because that’s not what government is about for them anymore.

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King of the fossil-fuel industry

Resources Minister Madeleine King says cutting Australia’s gas supply would ‘worsen poverty and inequality’ and lead to ‘shortages … and high prices’, and independent Senator Lidia Thorpe says Dan Andrews quitting six days after announcing his plan to raze and redevelop 44 public housing towers was a ‘dog act’.

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Britain is still blighted by the class system

One thousand years after William the Conqueror introduced the feudal system, we still define ourselves in terms of social divisions

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Dally M awards 2023 red carpet – as it happened

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Morning Mail: the fight to succeed Daniel Andrews, Football Australia’s secret privatisation plan, Albanese’s voice hopes

Prime minister tells Guardian Australia he’s still fighting for a positive vote, while Labor MPs contemplate the end of the Andrews era

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So long and thanks for all the biffs: Murdoch press may miss the man they called Dictator Dan

He was fodder for the headline writers – but Daniel Andrews was also the target of attacks from News Corp

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It’s past time for voices to be raised against dissent, racism and hate

The Yes camp has tried the quiet truth approach, Crikey readers say. Now is the time to go hard.

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OPINION - The Standard View: An explosive look at the Murdoch empire

Money. Power. Self-preservation. From today, the Evening Standard launches its serialisation of The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire, by Michael Wolff, author of the Donald Trump blockbuster Fire and Fury.

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Labor urged to include news outlets in social media crackdown to curb ‘dangerous’ misinformation

Exclusive: Greens and independents say the exemption in disinformation bill will allow falsehoods to spread

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Ivani’s genetic disease is worsening as she ages. Her mother hopes Australia’s new biobank will help

Exclusive: National Muscle Disease Bio-databank will store blood test and skin biopsy samples from children with diseases such as muscular dystrophy

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The Murdoch media embraced ‘shareholder value’. Now it’s coming back to bite them

Fox is facing yet another lawsuit over its amplification of Donald Trump’s 2020 election lie, with the plaintiff’s accusing the Murdochs of sinning against that most holy writ of neoliberalism: the primacy of shareholder value.

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Does Rupert Murdoch still matter? The question UK politicians don’t want to test

Rupert Murdoch’s UK media may be a shadow of its former self, but that doesn’t mean party leaders aren’t deparate for dad’s approval.

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