Crown Casino, it’s the ultimate Rorschach test, isn’t it?

For many, it’s a place to while away a Friday night (or lose a fortune). For others, a place to land a plum board position. For many more, including many of our readers, it’s a place that symbolises everything wrong with how power works in this country.

All week we’ve kept our gaze on the saga unfolding between Southbank and Canberra. Elsewhere, we turn the lens on ourselves. The INQ team’s series this week, Media Roadkill, digs into who makes money when a media storm rains down.

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CHRIS WOODS 4 minute read

Positive spin, false statements and delays — Australia's emissions-data must run a gauntlet before the public is allowed to see it, and the media is happy to help.

WILLIAM BOWE 3 minute read

The pollster has placed the Coalition soundly ahead in its first analysis since the shock federal election result. But without an explanation of how its methods have changed since the election, will anybody believe it?

KISHOR NAPIER-RAMAN 4 minute read

From Australia's 'watergate' scandal to becoming a meme, 2019 has been a horror year for Energy Minister Angus Taylor.

GUY RUNDLE 5 minute read

Nothing is more likely to rule off the '60s liberation ideologues more decisively than the 'gender question'.

CHARLIE LEWIS 4 minute read

Following Tupac and Biggie's deaths, scores of suspects and witnesses were killed and rumours immediately billowed out like smoke. Why do these conspiracy theories hold so much sway?

KISHOR NAPIER-RAMAN 4 minute read

After angling for a federal anti-corruption watchdog last year, the Morrison government has gone silent on the topic.

NATALIE CROMB 3 minute read

Our waterways are running dry and we're on the precipice of complete environmental destruction.

BERNARD KEANE 4 minute read

As platforms like Google and Facebook grow bigger by buying up their competition, we need to decide what we should do about monopolies.

JENNINE KHALIK 3 minute read

Zero women have been elected to the executive of a peak young conservative group for 2019, adding to a long string of gender-based controversies.

MICHAEL BRADLEY 4 minute read

In terms of justice, truth, morality or social relevance, Shayna Jack's controversy contributes nothing at all.

CHLOE KOFFMAN 4 minute read

The battle for women's reproductive rights doesn't stop at legalised abortion.