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Francesca Albanese on Australian media’s Gaza blind spots and accepting a reporter’s apology
Albanese speaks to Crikey about her experience of the Australian media and leaves a stern message for the government regarding its commitment to international law.
If new migrant rules are considered punishment, Labor’s new law could be vulnerable to challenges
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said on Sunday the government expected to continue to tinker with immigration detention laws, telling Sky News: ‘This is not over.’
Competition reforms are on the way — but how tough will they be?
The government is consulting on moves to strengthen competition laws, with big company mergers and acquisitions in the firing line.
Fake Mecca scam ads show ‘something going wrong’ with Facebook and Instagram ad platform
Australians are being lured to fake retailers’ websites with promises of sales so that scammers can steal their credit card numbers.
Albonomics is delivering for struggling workers. He should keep the party going
The jobs market is buoyant… for now. Australians must hold politicians to their word.
49 women have been killed in 2023 as a result of violence. Are we actually making progress?
While certain statistics show a promising downward trend in domestic violence, there is clearly a long way to go.
PM quiet on if he raised navy incident with China
Labor said the incident had been raised ‘through the appropriate channels’, but has come under fire for keeping things under wraps until after the APEC summit.
Rehumanising the discourse means telling stories of personhood in Gaza, not just horror
There is a narrative behind every horror witnessed in Gaza — one which must be sought out for the person it represents.
The pro-Palestinian movement is a social revolution in a changed Australia
The ethical urgency of Gaza has met a new post-Anglo Australia to produce something extraordinary.
Infrastructure project hit list released as review reveals shambolic spending program
Scott Morrison once proudly boasted of his $120 billion infrastructure investment program. An independent review has found major problems with it, including huge cost blowouts.
Incompetence, culture wars and conservatism dominate our political cycle
Will voters reward an effort to govern well, or will they be keener on following Peter Dutton into culture wars? The opposition leader wants to find out.
What the heck is going on with bitcoin?
The cryptocurrency’s value has doubled this year and shows no signs of an early demise.
When corporate crime takes many years instead of just one…
Sam Bankman-Fried was tried and convicted in a mere 12 months. If he’d been in Australia, he’d still be living the high life, a Crikey reader says.
The language around ‘national interest’ vs ‘national security’ has the Albanese government walking a tightrope.
The rules of war are clear: children and patients in hospital are immune from assault in all circumstances. Israel has no legal cover.
Fabio, Shaq, Merlin Luck and other celebs help us make sense of geopolitics
To honour these insights on the Middle East, we take a look at a glorious history of celebrities telling us what they think. Why we don’t know.
The secrecy that surrounds Australia’s involvement in Israel’s atrocities
Co-belligerency is more than a failure in soft diplomacy, as Australians are being kept in the dark about operations at Pine Gap.
Dutton eager to exploit slaughter and hate 9/11-style — but he’s not alone
In the 9/11 mindset, there’s always an existential crisis and a need for action that overrides protections. Now we’re in it in Canberra and Sydney.
The right is using the fight against anti-Semitism to dehumanise Palestinians and justify slaughter
The right was routinely anti-Semitic for decades. Now it’s anti-Palestinians. The object may change, but the desire to bully and victimise remains.
Optus has had a horrific two weeks, but it still can’t hold a candle to Qantas
Optus and Qantas might both be poor at communication when they stuff up, but the airline’s illegal behaviour is far worse than that of the telecommunications provider.
America’s two-party system is failing voters when it comes to Biden’s approach to the Middle East
Without preferential voting, citizens in the US must either decide the lesser of two evils, or ‘throw their vote away’.
Finally a bump in wages — a one-off, but welcome anyway
Australian workers had real wages growth on average in the September quarter — if only of 0.1%.
Anthony Albanese accuses Peter Dutton of weaponising anti-Semitism
‘That you would attempt to weaponise anti-Semitism in this chamber and make it a partisan issue is, frankly, beyond contempt’.
There is a way to restore Bill Hayden’s vision of universal healthcare in Australia
Resetting the Medicare rebate level and indexing it will breathe new life into Australia’s first truly universal healthcare program.
We see and hear more in the media about the Middle East, but we learn a lot less
There’s so much more going on in the region than the Israel-Hamas war, but it’s not as clicky so it goes under-reported.
Kerry Stokes’ failing Seven can still get a media deal done
Seven West Media has hit a new low on the sharemarket but it’s still climbing on board the latest deal to shrink Australian media diversity.
Sunak makes Cameron foreign secretary, says AUKUS will help UK ‘shape the world’
The nuclear subs pact will allow the UK to be ‘hard-headed’, PM Rishi Sunak says as he brings former PM David Cameron back to cabinet.
The GOP’s terrible, no good, very bad week
We look at a packed week in US politics: Surprising wins for the Dems, Ivanka Trump’s amnesia and leftover Republicans fighting for scraps.
Inexperienced Bullock puts pandering to inflation hawks ahead of Australians
The RBA governor says there’s still a risk of a wage-price spiral, and as many households are doing well more monetary punishment is needed.
Your super is shrinking! Here’s why that matters for the nation
It hurts to see there’s less money in your superannuation account than you expected. But on the bright side, it is helping the economy overall.
Heat death isn’t the only cost of our addiction to fossil fuels
A new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows the cost of the rising frequency of extreme heat events. And that doesn’t include the death toll from coal-fired power.
‘We are being exterminated on TV’: Our Gazan colleagues brace for power to go out across all major hospitals in Gaza
Gaza’s healthcare system has reached an unparalleled point of devastation, with the lives of babies, children and adults hanging in the balance. The world cannot look away.
Clive Palmer sues government over ‘extremist’, ‘anti-coal’ judge in $69bn lawsuit
Palmer’s company Zeph Investments, 100% owners of Waratah Coal, is accusing the government of installing a pro-climate change judge in an attempt to deny new coal projects.
Traumatised Canadian firefighters may not be able to help Australia this summer
There aren’t enough Australian firefighters to protect us from a possible Black Summer season, but a burnt Canada warns it’s exhausted.
Optus has had a horrific two weeks, but it still can’t hold a candle to Qantas
Bernard Keane
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Defence confesses that Hunter-class frigates purchase was a disaster
Bernard Keane
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PwC’s Russian sanctions scandal confirms ‘ethical failure of big business’: Greens senator
Anton Nilsson
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