What’s a leak? What’s a drop? Australia’s scoop doyenne Sam Maiden weighs in ahead of the budget
‘Journalists who don’t break stories think everything is a drop.’
Home Affairs is a disaster. It needs an urgent and radical overhaul
Home Affairs was so inept in its regulation of migration agents it simply allowed people it knew were accused of criminality to keep plying their trade.
Waleed Aly fails to understand men’s violence against women and prevention
Waleed Aly is right to point to shame as an underlying cause. But his argument recycles strawman arguments and logical fallacies.
A Sydney council has banned books with same-sex parents from its libraries. But since when did councils ban books?
Australia has a long and complicated history with censorship and book banning.
Insecure and overworked: It’s getting harder to pursue an academic career
Academic careers are getting harder to maintain. What does this mean for the future of Australian universities?
‘Exhausting nightmare’: No shortage of Qantas qualms for Crikey readers
‘Bonuses are usually paid to employees for their performance enhancing a company’s image, not for bringing their employer to the verge of destruction.’
Reserve Bank starts to realise how much damage it has inflicted on ordinary people
The Reserve Bank has belatedly acknowledged that its punitive rate rises have inflicted more harm on households than it expected.
Media treatment of Chinese Australians a useful study in ‘social cohesion’ debate
Persistent media narratives about Chinese Australians — as well as alarmist talk about war with China — has only served to alienate the community.
Everyone loves manufacturing — but no-one has the workers
Emmanual Macron is dead keen to restore French manufacturing. But there’s a big impediment in the way: there aren’t enough workers. And things aren’t any better here at home.
Is Sky News Australia’s influence dying?
Sky News Australia once dominated social media platforms, peaking in 2020. Now, it’s a shadow of its former self.
Greens and Nats unlikely allies when it comes to cracking down on Coles and Woolies
The Nats have said they’re for divestiture powers, putting them at odds with their Coalition partner.
‘Man vs bear’ debate is emblematic of the paradoxical choices women face every day
One of the latest viral trends on male violence against women poses the question ‘would you rather be stuck in the woods alone with a man or a bear?’ Hannah Robertson isn’t surprised women are choosing the bear.
Can we prevent the darkness that AI will bring?
Artificial intelligence is ubiquitous, global and increasingly hard to regulate. Would an AI Commission help?
Crunching the numbers on the environment since Labor took office
Australia needs to annually reduce emissions by 17 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent to meet its 2030 goal. In 2022-23, we increased emissions by 4 million tonnes.
The airline’s management has refused to take proper accountability for its misdeeds.
I have been writing about men’s violence against women as a journalist in Australia for nearly ten years. In many ways, I have seen this show before. But this feels different…
ScoMo finally grilled, media power couple are expecting, and some curious flight logs
‘Why are they being aggressive-y?’ Scott Morrison faced some tough questions during his appearance on the Kyle and Jackie O show.
Coal vs coral: A boat trip to the Barrier Reef shows our climate cultural cringe on full display
Australia is both coal and coral. They are not enemies, but rather part of a larger story of people and communities.
A lobbying future made in Australia — by Labor and its mates
While partisan lobbying firms play a role in government decisions, the opposition is right to be sceptical.
Climate change will displace millions of people. Australia’s asylum seeker policy must be ready
Australia’s cruel immigration policy is in desperate need of an overhaul — particularly given the huge influx of climate refugees we can expect in the coming years.
Will Solomon Islands’ new leader stay close to China?
Ordinary Solomon Islanders have more pressing issues to worry about than diplomatic tussles between global powers.
Will Albanese’s initiatives to stop violence against women actually help?
Crikey breaks down Labor’s announcements and asks the experts which proposals will actually have an impact.
Age verification won’t work, but idiot verification is doing fine in the male violence debate
Imposing age verification in an effort to block kids’ access to pornography will just send Australians to the darker and more sinister parts of the internet.
Gaza is the worst of it, but across the world, journalism is under unprecedented assault.
If we criminalise, dismiss or sideline journalism that tells inconvenient truths, we will destroy our capacity for sensible public debate.
Peters’ ‘Chinese puppet’ dig at Bob Carr a bad look for Luxon’s fumbling government
Australia’s former foreign affairs minister Bob Carr joins a growing coterie of lawyered-up foreigners looking to sue New Zealand’s deputy prime minister.
University Gaza protests ‘spread like wildfire’ despite lashing rain
Crikey visited the activist encampment at Sydney University, where students are pitching tents to protest Israel’s war in Gaza.
How often does Jim Chalmers mention his surplus? (And other important budget numbers)
We break down the global trends that will inform Labor’s next budget, to be handed down next month.
There is an alternative to neoliberalism, but Australia’s media class won’t tell you that
The climate emergency is forcing journalists and columnists into something more honest.
Many suicides are related to gambling. How can we tackle this problem?
While gambling itself comes with a degree of risk, individual vulnerabilities can place certain people at even greater risk of harm.
Presenting schizophrenia as though it satisfies our questions is deeply stigmatising
Implying that the Bondi Junction attacker’s mental health diagnosis alone can explain why he decided to attack and murder multiple people is simplistic, offensive and damaging.
Why is it taking so long to fix our crap environment laws — and why aren’t people ‘chill’ about it?
Interrogating the delay to address our inadequate environment laws, what was originally promised, and why the government seems to be dragging its feet.
Australia’s long-sought stronger environmental laws just got indefinitely deferred. It’s back to business as usual
Labor was elected promising to fix Australia’s broken environmental protection laws. But this week the government walked back its commitments.
Social cohesion is impossible when the national business model is division
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The liars at Qantas lied to customers over ghost flights, then lied about their lies
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‘Paying to be exploited’: Labor has now fully succumbed to the fossil fuel industry
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