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Albanese’s dumb, wrong-headed protectionism is jobs-for-the-blokes
The prime minister’s new manufacturing policy is dumb, unnecessary and reflective of a 20th-century trade union mentality.
Albo is right to want to make things in Australia. He’ll just need a bit more cash
It’s a new era of geopolitical competition out there, where old certainties of ‘free trade’ are ending. Australia needs to pivot — will Albanese’s policy be enough?
It’s time for Kerry Stokes to get out of Seven
The Stokes family is falling out of love with Seven. Is it time to sell?
We don’t yet know the Bondi killer’s motive, but targeting women is a form of terror
The rush to avoid calling the horrific attack terrorism makes clear what we consider extremism in this country.
Presenting schizophrenia as though it satisfies our questions is deeply stigmatising
Implying that the Bondi Junction attacker’s metal health diagnosis alone can explain why he decided to attack and murder multiple people is simplistic, offensive and damaging.
Liz Truss’ revisionism and a rocky start to post-case life for Bruce Lehrmann
We pick through Liz Truss’ new book and note Bruce Lehrmann’s post-defo trial career is off to a bad start.
10 years on, Thomas Piketty’s magnum opus is just as prescient — especially in Australia
Should Jim Chalmers be giving it a read?
YouTube, X, Instagram — social media’s ‘theatre’ of transparency has to end
Social media platforms need to go beyond PR and be proactive about what they’re doing to fix transparency.
Uhlmann joining Sky News is a good thing — unless he adopts a Credlin-like ideology
Sky needs Chris Uhlmann more than he needs it, with the outlet in the market to attract some serious journalistic talent. But what kind impact will the news veteran have?
Dutton, the part-time opposition leader, pulls another vanishing act
Peter Dutton likes to project the image of a tough guy. The reality is he’s the kind of guy who disappears when the going gets tough.
Legal system delivers collateral vindication for Brittany Higgins — at a steep price
The Federal Court may have found that Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins, but her vindication is only the result of a powerful media company becoming involved in the vortex of litigation that resulted from her claims.
The truth defence succeeded in the Lehrmann saga, but journalists’ lies failed us
Every mainstream media outlet has a lesson to learn in this whole sorry affair.
Let’s be thankful for Justice Lee, a judge who wasn’t buying anyone’s narrative
Nobody should be surprised to read that Bruce Lehrmann’s ‘attachment to the truth was a tenuous one’. It was his choice to tell a story that defied rationality.
When O.J. Simpson proved too incendiary for Rupert Murdoch
A look back on News Corp’s sordid history with the late O.J. Simpson.
While neoliberals might dream of market solutions to climate risk, the reality is that most of the cost of adaptation will need to be socialised.
Former Survivor winner and Liberal candidate for the Perth seat of Tangney Mark Wales has written a novel featuring a Chinese invasion of Australia. How will Chinese-Australian voters react?
Bruce McWilliam’s spicy messages, The Tele gets with the times, and Guardian Australia’s mea culpa
This week’s Briefs brings you some of former Seven fixer Bruce McWilliam’s finest work in the DMs, a throwback Tele front page, and a Guardian Australia correction.
It’s time to bring kids into the picture when we talk about family violence
A survivor urges political leaders to do things with them, not for them.
Who is Mar Mari Emmanuel, the bishop stabbed last night?
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was among four people stabbed at Sydney church in Wakeley last night, in what police are calling a ‘terrorist act’.
‘Obscene’: Shame on everyone complicit in Qantas’ bloated paycheque
Today you respond to Crikey’s breakdown of how much taxpayer money Qantas has received, plus weigh in on Gaza and Peter Dutton.
A review of 600 articles shows how conservative media fuels our nuclear ‘debate’
Debate over nuclear power in Australia continues to be stoked by media and ideologues, following a well-worn path that likely leads nowhere.
Proposed media freedom legislation gets ‘very enthusiastic’ response from MPs
Exclusive: A proposal put together by the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom has received a positive reception from government and crossbench MPs.
To get our Bondi reporting right, the media needs to learn these 5 lessons
Our overseas colleagues have more experience reporting on tragedies like the Bondi Junction attack. Australia’s knowledge gap is showing.
In the UK, Murdoch’s losses show his monopoly adventures are winding down
The numbers aren’t looking great for Rupert the ‘Dirty Digger’.
Aid workers’ murders in Gaza did not start with Zomi Frankcom’s death
My fellow health and humanitarian workers are reeling at Zomi Frankcom’s death. But what of our friends and colleagues who’ve already been killed?
Arrests, defections, frozen funds: India’s election will test its slide to electoral autocracy
India’s general election is being touted the largest democratic vote ever held. But what has been a proud record of seven decades of free and fair elections may be ending, experts warn.
There has never been a worse time to invest in solar panel production. But we’re wasting $1b on it
Why is Labor spending $1 billion to encourage solar panel production when there’s already a global glut of the things?
Robotax? More like a robo-beatup that misleads readers and duds taxpayers
The media campaign against ‘robotax’ is about looking after people who haven’t paid their taxes. The comparison with robodebt is offensive.
Sydneysiders, here’s the best way to bring down the cost of cocaine
Demand for cocaine by affluent people is a straightforward economic problem: remove the regulatory constraints on its supply.
Lobby group’s dire predictions turn out to be incorrect, surprising nobody
Remember the Pharmacy Guild president’s tearful warnings about what would happen if consumer-benefitting changes to the PBS went ahead? Shockingly, they never happened.
‘Mourning cannot be an endpoint’: James Bradley on living in an Age of Emergency
‘To bear witness in this way is to make ourselves vulnerable, to open ourselves up to loss and sadness.’
Australia is not equipped to handle the incoming pile of redundant fossil fuel rigs
Radioactive waste, diplomatic tensions and tens of billions of dollars — welcome to the messy world of offshore decommissioning.
