Sunak calls a snap election, he’s bloody gone and done it!
Rishi Sunak is taking the UK to an early election. And a Tory rout. If the Tories let him.
Nine refuses to deny imminent redundancies across broadcast division
Exclusive: Rumours are swirling of redundancies in Nine’s broadcast division but the company is remaining tight-lipped.
Media has gone missing in action on Labor’s carbon capture fraud
The media are all over Dutton’s disastrous nuclear proposal. So why are they ignoring Labor’s equally silly scheme?
Coalkeeper 2.0: NSW Labor to make taxpayers prop up lethal coal power
The NSW Labor government is pursuing its own version of Angus Taylor’s Coalkeeper tax — by forcing taxpayers to prop up an unviable coal-fired power station.
Bridget McKenzie wants you to know she has a science degree
She’s not a nuclear expert, but she does have a science degree — which makes the senator a rarity in Parliament.
Secretive review paves the way for PwC partner to sell business
The Department of Finance refuses to release its review, say who conducted it, or even reveal what specifically it looked at or found.
Telstra says slashing almost a tenth of its workforce will help save $350 million. Why is the business under pressure?
The company continues to struggle to reduce costs at a time of what it calls ‘higher-than-expected inflation’ and high energy costs.
Future Gas Strategy will be expensive and inequitable
The strategy would be a more convincing document if it engaged deeply with the many gas substitute technologies.
Coverage of pro-Palestine university protests reflects Australia’s polarised, skewed media
Media coverage of pro-Palestine university protests has seen a collapse of the middle ground, with students painted as violent and racist, and their demands largely ignored and misinterpreted.
News Corp’s ‘Let Them Be Kids’ campaign is a mix of stupidity and hypocrisy
As its history shows, News Corp has never cared about kids.
‘Makes no sense’: There’d be no 6 News if Albanese’s social media ban for under-16s went ahead
To say a 15-year-old is responsible enough to have a part-time job but not an Instagram account is nonsense.
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.
Australian anti-discrimination laws basically say that if a person has been treated less favourably than they would have been if they did not have the relevant attribute, that’s unlawful discrimination.
A major mining company plans to cease using third-party airlines for its fly-in-fly-out requirements — and is poaching Qantas staff.
ScoMo might have no clue who Antoinette Lattouf is, and Transport for London has beef with us
Plus: a twist in the sordid drama of NSW Lands and Property Minister Steve Kamper’s infamous dinner date.
The media’s post-budget polls reveal a broken news machine
Polls should be about consensus, not political combat.
Dutton’s nukes look dead on arrival — but what about Labor’s carbon capture fantasy?
A new CSIRO report on energy is bad news for Peter Dutton — but it also discredits the government’s carbon capture nonsense.
‘My disillusion with Labor is now complete’: Government’s gas plan a bunch of hot air
‘Labor will be punished at the election: no sensible person will listen to the lies and nonsense the party proclaims as good policy.’
Dutton’s nuclear would spike electricity bills when (if) they start in the 2040s
Odd that Peter Dutton hasn’t mentioned the commencement of the latest nuclear reactor in the US — or the big price hike it has caused consumers.
A fight made in Australia: Time to manufacture our own Aussie culture wars!
It’s time to end Australia’s reliance on imported cultural conflict and become a ‘Fight Made In Australia’ culture war superpower.
‘The days of close-ups are over’: Al Jazeera staff tell Crikey of working under Israel’s ban
‘We’ve been physically attacked and verbally abused,’ one journalist said.
From ‘Jimflation’ to ‘Lucky Chalm’: How did the Australian press cover the 2024 budget?
The federal budget offers an insight into the political biases and blind spots among Australia’s major media players.
What does Australia’s vote for Palestine in the UN actually mean?
The vote has caused strong reactions on both sides of the debate.
The right is the main enemy of free speech in Australia — and Gaza got ’em there
They fought 18C, now they’re to criminalise individual words. They can’t beat their opponents with better ideas, so they need the state to ban them.
‘Billions for billionaires’: An educated guess about what Dutton will say in his budget reply tonight
Peter Dutton will deliver his budget reply speech tonight. It’s already possible to guess what he will say.
Chalmers’ profligate, partisan and possibly prescient budget
Labor’s budget sends us deep into deficit — and it’s possible that it might not be enough to prop up the economy.
People with disability have spelled out 6 priorities — now politicians must act
People with disability are too often seen as problems to be solved, rather than the problem-solvers with agency to act.
Tetelestai, ScoMo? How our happy-clappy ex-PM put his faith in pills
‘We pretty much hated Morrison for being utterly different to us. We will never forgive him for being more or less the same.’
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.
‘Paying to be exploited’: Labor has now fully succumbed to the fossil fuel industry
In a massive win for the fossil fuel industry, taxpayers will fund the mapping of gas reserves for companies to exploit in Labor’s own ‘gas-led recovery’.
Whatever your feelings towards Dutton, we need to talk about the Australia we want
Guy Rundle
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Dutton’s too scared of homeowners to REALLY go after migration
Bernard Keane
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I’m picking a fight with the YIMBYs. And suggesting a truce (of sorts)
Guy Rundle
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