‘A lot more intense’: Rise of News Corp tsars triggers apprehension in newsroom
News Corp’s restructure has seen heads roll and personalities rise. Not everyone’s happy about it.
Forget the Frontbench: A new column interrogating the players shaking up Australian politics
A growing force is changing the political landscape as we know it. Rachel Withers profiles the figures upending federal politics.
Facing post-Parliament poverty, multitasking Morrison looks to seafloor for riches
What to do when your taxpayer-funded salary drops from $549k, to $225k, to nothing? Multitask, of course.
Ban? What ban? PwC and ‘Scyne Advisory’ $138m federal bonanza
After one of the biggest corporate scandals in Australian history, PwC and Scyne Advisory still have millions in government contracts.
Australian children’s television production has tanked. Blame Paul Fletcher.
Bluey won’t save us — the latest ACMA report shows the devastating consequences of the Coalition’s decision to remove local content quotas for children’s television in 2021.
Sleight of hand: Australia’s net zero target is being lost in accounting tricks, offsets and more gas
Despite what Madeleine King might say, fossil gas is not a “transition fuel”.
Between stumbling Sunak and ‘socialist’ Starmer, it all means more of the same
The incumbent PM has fast-tracked his reelection bid into damage-control mode, while Keir Starmer’s Labour tries campaigning against itself.
If Bowen sued News Corp over ‘Hamas’ headline, the company would lose
Three defences often raised by clients threatened with defamation are ‘It was a mistake’, ‘But I took it down’ and ‘I didn’t mean it that way’. None matter.
Protester to prime minister: A timeline of Albanese’s public stance on Palestine
Anthony Albanese has criticised student protesters and reprimanded a junior senator for speaking out. But he was once an outspoken advocate too, attending a protest in 2000 where Israeli flags were burned and the US consulate stormed.
‘Outrageous and stupid’: First major redundancies revealed as News Corp swings axe
‘To dump an accomplished woman who’s better at her job than anyone else in this country … is disgusting,’ one News Corp source told Crikey.
Are older people really outspending millennials? Let’s look at the raw numbers
As cost of living pressures bite, Australians are spending less on discretionary items. But is the trend the same across demographics?
Aussies are transferring around $100 billion in inheritances every year — how does that impact concentrated wealth?
Pilots at Qantas subsidiaries, who are being lured by better salary conditions at rival companies, are turning down retention bonuses amid ongoing pay disputes.
Award-winning author Lucashenko claims ABC’s David Marr called her ‘f**king rude’ backstage
Plus a News Corp beat-up on the ABC’s Laura Tingle? Quelle surprise.
News Corp is ailing. How long will the Murdochs care about propping it up?
News Corp’s mish-mash of legacy media assets once made sense, delivering cash flows and political clout. Now they’re just hard work.
Is Australia a racist country? We asked five experts
‘If you are talking about a process in which distinctions between people based on colour, ethnicity, nationality, culture or background are used to allocate resources broadly in society, that’s racism.’
‘The road is much more terrifying’: Crikey readers want huge utes permanently parked
Australia must end its obsession with American-style pick-ups — or at least tax the hell out of them.
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.
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.
We analysed 30 years of Australian media articles — and unearthed some glaring gaps in the coverage
Turns out journalists have consistently allowed their coverage to be dominated by male voices and high and middle income earners.
Not waving, drowning: The fight to keep independent news alive
The Australian news media is in a David and Goliath battle with social media and search engine giants for survival, and it’s going to take more than an inquiry to save small independent players.
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.
‘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.
Money worries? Ask Steve Forrester!
Crikey’s money man Steve Forrester takes your questions about all your goddamn swag. As told to Guy Rundle.
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.
Cannabis companies advertising on social media face backlash from drug watchdog
The Therapeutic Goods Administration alleges advertising cannabis directly to consumers can lead to ‘inappropriate demand for these medicines’.
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.
Is Labor’s carbon capture fantasy even dumber than Dutton’s nuclear dream?
Who will be on the hook if a carbon capture and storage project fails in fifty or a hundred years’ time? Why, taxpayers, of course.
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.
The Laura Tingle fallout shows how the ABC kowtows to News Corp
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