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Food industry’s lite way with labels brings home the plant-based bacon

Consumers need a degree in analysis and a pair of binoculars to understand and read food labels. It's a rort and must stop.

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Morrison fails to read the room as sport shows he’s playing out of his league

After decades of the right using racism to wedge the left, professional sports players have now wedged the right between past and future.

Elaine Stead and Joe Aston (Images: SouthStart; Joe Aston/Twitter)

Joe Aston’s lazy journalism was his downfall. Fair criticism is still valid

Gossip columnists have plenty of scope to dig and flay and insult, but the devil is in getting the details right.

How I tripled my money betting on something I don’t really believe in

Aside from possibly making your fortune, there is a very sensible reason to invest in Bitcoin: it could be a good move when inflation hits.

Thai health workers prepare to disinfect a shrimp market earlier this week (Image: EPA/Narong Sangnak)

Australia’s coronavirus management is the gold standard. Who else succeeds?

Crikey looks at the countries that have handled the pandemic the best, and what they have in common.

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Strides on HomeBuilder, stagnant on homelessness: a decade of rising rental stress

Would the cash allocated for HomeBuilder be better spent on social housing?

Health Department secretary Brendan Murphy (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

Brendan Murphy is a great Australian but should he be Australian of the Year?

Should a public servant receive so high an honour just for doing their job?

Labor leader Anthony Albanese and Labor climate spokesman Mark Butler 
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Labor swings in the breeze on climate as Australia’s time runs out

The NSW Liberals used smart politics to fight internal climate wars, but the ALP hasn't shown that kind of shrewdness.

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‘An additional and fair contribution’: time for a mining super-profits tax

The government has imposed a super profits tax before. It's time for another one — on the iron ore sector.

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. (AP/Esteban Felix

The ins and outs of the ‘swings and roundabouts’ of Australia’s vaccine rollout

Threats to sue from Italy, a bit of argy-bargy between the EU and the UK. The global program isn't going as smoothly as hoped.

Matt Canavan (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)

The Nationals’ manufacturing fantasy: nonsense policy but smart politics

The Nationals reckon we can create 800,000 manufacturing jobs. It's idiocy -- but attractive idiocy for some.

Xi Jinping delivers his speech to the World Economic Forum (Image: EPA/Supplied)

Xi sends a message the world can’t ignore. Here’s how it has been interpreted

In Australia, analysts have focused on Xi Jinping's comments on free trade. But overseas, his remarks are seen as a message for the new US administration.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres (Image: Michael Sohn/Pool via REUTERS and AAP)

UN urges global action on ‘poison’ spread by technologies

With hate crimes on the rise, the UN takes aim at technology's role in normalising and fostering 'a self-reinforcing vortex of violence'.

Elaine Stead and Joe Aston (Images: Supplied)

Aston goes down: AFR told to pay $280,000 in damages, honest defence rejected

With Joe Aston having lost his recent defamation case, we take a look back at some of the other very pointed comments the gossip columnist has published over his career.

Court sketch of Julian Assange from January 4, 2021 (Image: Elizabeth Cook/PA via AP)

With Trump and Pompeo gone, it’s the media’s job to get justice for Julian Assange

A Trump pardon for the WikiLeaks founder was a long shot. But Joe Biden is no fan either. A concerted and global effort from the media is demanded.

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Searching times for small business. Break up, make up or go down?

If Google pulls its search engine from Australia, the consequences could be devastating for small businesses.