Peter Dutton Inside the campaign to unseat Duttoncrikey.com.au - Hilary Whiteman Grassroots campaign group GetUp has its sights on seven seats this election — and Peter Dutton’s marginal seat of Dickson is the priority target.The …
Australian News This could be Australia’s stupidest election evercrikey.com.au - Ben Pobjie It's been a stupid election campaign so far and all signs point to it getting stupider.The post This could be Australia’s stupidest election ever …
Flirting Zali Steggall at the business end of Warringahcrikey.com.au - Charlie Lewis What do the locals make of Abbott's competition? They quite like her. Or at least they want to like her.The post Zali Steggall at the business end of …
Western Australia One Nation fans hit up GetUp in Western Australiacrikey.com.au - Crikey It was a battle of the orange t-shirts in Perth this week.The post One Nation fans hit up GetUp in Western Australia appeared first on Crikey.
List-Worthy The Footy Show drops a sitter and plunges from the top 100.crikey.com.au - Charlie Lewis I have been describing Nine’s AFL Footy Show as DOA for weeks as its ratings collapsed to ever lower record lows. But even I did not think that they …
Australian News Labor targets Indigenous health priorities, but where’s the workforce?crikey.com.au - Bernard Keane Labor has unveiled a boost to Indigenous health, recognising the need for Indigenous communities to be central to program development and …
Methane This is Labor heartland policy and I thank them for itcrikey.com.au - Crikey Is Labor focussing too much on health? Crikey readers debate Bernard Keane's recent piece.The post This is Labor heartland policy and I thank them for …
Julian Assange Assange’s ‘hacking’ indictment the crime of protecting a whistleblowercrikey.com.au - Bernard Keane Julian Assange did what any good journalist should do: minimise his source's chances of being found out.The post Assange’s ‘hacking’ indictment the …
Reserve Bank of Australia Is a great wave going to swamp Australia’s housing market?crikey.com.au - Jason Murphy With a small but growing percentage of homeowners owing banks sums greater than the value of their homes, what are the looming risks to the …
Hate Speech Can social media algorithms automatically delete hate speech?crikey.com.au - RMIT ABC Fact Check unit Scott Morrison claims algorithms can do all the heavy lifting on this front. Is he right?The post Can social media algorithms automatically delete …
Josh Frydenberg Labor to announce Indigenous health packagecrikey.com.au - Chris Woods LABOR FOCUSES ON INDIGENOUS HEALTH Bill Shorten will today announce a $115 million, four-year Indigenous health package aimed at closing the ten-year …
Chomsky The Thirst World Warcrikey.com.au - Bernard Keane This week: looooooong-hand multiplication, the coming war with Iran, and Ellsberg and Chomsky on Assange.The post The Thirst World War appeared first …
News Corp News Corp boss lashes NYT ‘hatchet job’, ignoring his own papers’ scandalscrikey.com.au - Glenn Dyer News Corp CEO Robert Thomson attacked the New York Times and social media platforms in making the annual Keith Murdoch oration in Melbourne on …
Julian Assange Q&A, Julian Assange, and angry white mencrikey.com.au - Crikey Crikey readers discuss Julian Assange, politicians avoiding Q&A, and the election of people like Mark Latham.The post Q&A, Julian Assange, and angry …
East Timor All about the oil: a history of Australia’s relationship with Timor-Lestecrikey.com.au - Kishor Napier-Raman Australia views itself as Timor-Leste's liberator. But the reality is that Timor-Leste has suffered for decades because of Australia's pursuit of oil …
Permafrost Don’t underestimate the climatic danger of ice-melt watercrikey.com.au - Chris Woods Crikey speaks to climate change experts about last year's IPCC report, the gaps it contained, and the real picture of things to come.The post Don’t …
Bill Shorten Labor’s health obsession too much of a good thingcrikey.com.au - Bernard Keane Labor is talking about nothing but health, which is a positive for Bill Shorten but serves voters poorly when there are more critical issues to be …
Iggy Pop Punk, Iggy Pop, and bringing down the Housecrikey.com.au - David James Young Iggy Pop may be known as the godfather of punk, but he's returned to Sydney at a time where punk is one of the hardest things to be.The post Punk, …
Joko Widodo Indonesia’s hopeful young democracy is now under threatcrikey.com.au - Michael Sainsbury The hope promised by the incumbent president five years ago has subsided, and the nation’s darker undercurrents of intolerance have bubbled to the …
Gothic Notre Dame and the disruption of our links to a living pastcrikey.com.au - Bernard Keane The immolation of Notre Dame de Paris rips at the threads that link us to our ancestors and to our descendants, regardless of whether we're religious …
Notre-Dame Fire Higher breakfast TV viewership following Notre Dame firecrikey.com.au - Glenn Dyer With the top three morning shows collectively pulling in over 1.15 million viewers, it's a reminder that it is a very important news slot.The post …
Notre Dame Cathedral Millions pledged to aid restoration of Notre Damecrikey.com.au - Chris Woods Good morning, early birds. Millions of euros have already been pledged in the wake of yesterday's Notre Dame cathedral fire, and the Coalition's …
Yellow Vests Movement The slow burn of the gilets jaunescrikey.com.au - Guy Rundle Our correspondent-at-large reports on the simmering tensions in Paris amid the yellow vest movement.The post The slow burn of the gilets jaunes …
Scott Morrison Which major party politicians are avoiding Q&A?crikey.com.au - Emily Watkins We take a look at the stats: who's on high rotation at the national broadcaster, and who is steering clear completely?The post Which major party …
How many candidates will we lose between now and election day?crikey.com.au - Alana Schetzer With the political body count already rising, surely it's time for change to our parties' broken vetting processes.The post How many candidates will …
David Leyonhjelm The right’s fragmentation problem is causing crackscrikey.com.au - William Bowe Divided votes and increased competition — David Leyonhjelm's recent failure may be a bellwether for things to come on May 18.The post The right’s …
Climate change debate and the empty chaircrikey.com.au - Charlie Lewis As the campaign proper gears up, climate change is being pushed as a front and centre issue by almost every candidate. But where's Tony?The post …
Pauline Hanson The political business model of angry white mencrikey.com.au - Bernard Keane There is now a small but lucrative niche on our politics for angry white men to attack women. And One Nation is effectively exploiting it.The post …
Disability Rights How Morrison squandered his high ground on disability rightscrikey.com.au - Shakira Hussein Disability advocates are calling for the royal commissioners to step aside, the Medicare levy to be reinstated and yes, to stop being used a …
Julian Assange I don’t think Assange has done journalism any favourscrikey.com.au - Crikey Crikey readers discuss Julian Assange's arrest, election gaffes and Tony Abbott.The post I don’t think Assange has done journalism any favours …
