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This week our reporters and contributors brought you news and analysis on everything from Scott Morrison's trip to Israel to John Howard's appearance at a ‘right-wing loser-fest'.

They picked up the digital breadcrumbs leading from a nuclear poster boy to the Liberal Party, let you know which corporations paid little or no tax in the 2021-2022 financial year, and took you inside newsrooms where journalists are debating how the Israel-Hamas war should be covered.

Plus meet the climate activists risking jail time to fight for change.

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Gina Rushton Gina Rushton,
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Murdochs pull out all the stops to kill free speech at News Corp AGM
STEPHEN MAYNE

News Corp's media outlets constantly lecture public figures about subjecting themselves to questions. Yet it works very hard to discourage questions from shareholders at its own AGM.

Rupert Murdoch (Image: PA via AP/Victoria Jones)
 
Traumatised Canadian firefighters may not be able to help Australia this summer
EMMA ELSWORTHY

There aren't enough Australian firefighters to protect us from a possible Black Summer season, but a burnt Canada warns it's exhausted.

A wildfire in Alberta, Canada, in June (Image: AAP/EPA/Alberta Wildfire Handout)
 
All eyes on Danielle Wood as Chalmers brings Productivity Commission to heel
BERNARD KEANE

Labor is looking to nobble the PC by making it acknowledge its industry policy and keep the government more in the loop about its activities.

(Image: Gorkie/Private Media)
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Israel has made Gaza into death’s province where there’s nothing to do but be extinguished
GUY RUNDLE

The dead speak to us through social media, from rubble graves. Before commentary, simply fix on this vast crime.

An artillery unit fires shells near the Gaza border in southern Israel (Image: EPA/Neil Hall)
 
News Corp, climate criminals again top in tax dodging stakes
BERNARD KEANE

Big miners and banks paid billions in tax revenue — but fossil fuel companies and their media supporters continue to pay nothing.

Lachlan Murdoch (Image: AAP/AP/Evan Agostini/Invision)
 
Women and girls should not have to see murder as their lot for living alongside men and boys
MICHAEL BRADLEY

'He was not a monster,' says a male principal about a young man who killed a young woman. Nevertheless, his sense of entitlement was monstrous.

St Andrew’s students lay flowers in memory of Lilie James (Image: AAP/Dean Lewins)
 
‘Trying to remain relevant’: Why Scott Morrison joined Boris Johnson on trip to Israel
ANTON NILSSON

Scott Morrison is seen as a staunch supporter of Israel — but his current trip to the war-torn country has a secondary motive as well.

Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson (Image: AAP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
 
Labor wants to nobble the Productivity Commission on climate policy
BERNARD KEANE

The Productivity Commission doesn't need to be refocused or revamped, as Jim Chalmers wants it to be. We need it calling out bad policy no matter where it is pursued.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)
 
Mushrooms, mould and unsafe wiring: Australian tenants are enduring ‘shit rentals’
BENJAMIN CLARK

While a new High Court ruling in the Northern Territory provides some hope for change, a huge chunk of tenants remain dissatisfied with the state of their rental.

A property featured on the social media account 'Shit Rentals' (Image: Supplied)
 
John Howard shines at global right-wing loser-fest 
MAEVE MCGREGOR

It was embarrassing. It was very naff. But our resident right-wingers reckon they did the country proud.

Former prime minister John Howard (Image: AAP/Private Media)
 
Jail time, climate change, and the philosophy of protest
CHARLIE LEWIS

Crikey spoke to climate protesters around the country about increasingly repressive laws and the ideology behind the work they do.

Climate protester Gerard Mazza being arrested in the Perth CBD in 2021 (Image: Nancye Miles-Tweedie)
 
Australian media decide ethnic cleansing by Israeli colonists isn’t happening
BERNARD KEANE

Israeli colonists in the West Bank, already engaged in a long campaign of violence to drive Palestinians out, have more than doubled their attacks since October 7 — but you won't hear about it in Australia's commercial media.

The aftermath of an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank (Image: AAP/Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
 
Teen poster boy for nuclear energy denies Libs are backing his ‘nonpartisan’ group
CAM WILSON

Will Shackel's Nuclear for Australia says it's 'independent' but many parts of its website trace back to the Liberal Party.

Will Shackel on the Nuclear for Australia website (Image: Nuclear for Australia)
 
ABC fractures over Gaza, the end of a cricketing era, and an IDF non-briefing
DAANYAL SAEED

In this week's Media Briefs, your correspondent is shut out of an IDF briefing, without his favourite cricket highlights channel to pass the time...

A vigil for journalists killed in Gaza outside the ABC Melbourne offices (Image: AAP/Joel Carrett)
 
The media’s incessant stream of racing carnival drivel helps drive gambling addiction
BERNARD KEANE

The racing industry is corrupt, cruel and kills its employees. Moreover, it's reliant on gambling addicts — something media coverage works hard to ignore.

(Image: AAP/Bianca De Marchi)