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Dutton panics over ‘Muslim candidates’. But our parliaments are designed to be hung

Power-sharing is a standard part of parliamentary democracy. It’s time the major parties started acting like it.

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From broad church to narrow cult: Peter Dutton’s ‘Hansonisation’ of the Liberal Party

The Liberal Party has fully embraced the divisive right-wing populism past leaders worried would destroy it.

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Why are Cheng Lei’s shades of grey not newsworthy?

Sometimes a good clue to our media’s mindset is not what they tell us, but what they do not.

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Democrat Clooney turns back on Biden

George Clooney is the latest Democrat die-hard to tell Joe Biden to step aside, and Labor MPs have been told to leave the energy debate to the leaders.

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Snapper bouillabaisse doesn’t make up for Qantas’ staffing issues

One Qantas engineer described ‘a dumb short-sighted management decision’ as the airline continues to struggle to keep planes in the air.

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You can kill negative gearing using this one weird trick!

The latest tax office stats are in, and they show landlords making money hand over fist.

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The health and caring boom has given us a two-speed economy. It’s hell for policymakers

Australia’s economy and workforce is running at two speeds: government-funded health and caring, which is going gangbusters, and the rest, which isn’t.

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Jillian Segal is an envoy for Israel, banking misconduct, and not much else

Jillian Segal has criticised ceasefire calls in Gaza and defended bombing hospitals. That, and her record at NAB, makes her a poor choice for a government role.

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Politicians panicking about ‘faith-based’ forces need to look at Australia’s history

Is our magically secular law really under religious threat for the first time? Hardly.

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Crikey readers on Labor and the division caused by the Payman saga

Some view the responses to Fatima Payman quitting Labor as ‘extremely poor and one-sided’. Others ask, ‘What is the issue here?’

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At the heart of the Payman pile-on lies a fundamental failure of imagination

Did Labor force Fatima Payman out as part of some broader political strategy? Or was it just plain old incomprehension and incompetence?

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Register of interest updates, a Shire ‘shit fight’, and the PC’s ‘unconschionable’ behaviour

Some curious register of interests updates, the ‘shit fight’ that is Liberal council preselection, and Crikey starts the great cummerbunds wars of 2024.

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NATO underway amid Biden questions

The NATO summit opens in Washington as Joe Biden’s future is discussed by Democrats, and Australia’s wage growth is some of the worst in the OECD.

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Dutton’s claim that Australia is the only G20 nation not using nuclear power is misleading

Evidence and experts say six G20 countries do not generate any nuclear energy, and three of those don’t consume it either.

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Biden’s moment to go gracefully has long passed — but what would shift Trump voters?

Joe Biden has blown his chance to declare ‘mission accomplished’ with a presidency designed to neuter Donald Trump.

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Peter Dutton’s nuclear push makes sense in the modern Liberal Party

To conservatives and libertarians alike, the ‘moderates’ of the Liberal Party appear to be unprincipled shills virtually indistinguishable from the modern Labor Party.

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Can future Liberals achieve small government?

Peter Dutton’s vision for an Australian nuclear energy industry is incompatible with the idea of small government. But when push comes to shove, politics always trumps ideology.

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Think identity politics is a problem for Labor? Wait ’til you see the Republicans

Identity politics isn’t confined to the left. In fact it’s everywhere, driven by the dominance of market economics.

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How the French republican front pushed the left to surprise victory — and what’s next

The challenge is to find a cause that a majority of French people will vote for, not just one they will unite against.

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No ADF money for missile defence, just subs

Former defence chiefs say we need integrated air and missile defences to protect bases in the north of Australia, and Russia has bombed a Kyiv children’s hospital in a devastating attack.

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‘Pathetic’: Muslim journalists slam ‘rabid’, ‘disgusting’ coverage of Fatima Payman

‘Every time I write or read about Senator Payman, I am inundated with the most Islamophobic shit I have ever seen,’ one journalist told Crikey.

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Shorten teaming up with Hanson on the NDIS tacitly endorses her views of disability

Last week Bill Shorten stood beside the One Nation leader to hammer home the importance of NDIS reform. But what sort of message does this send to disabled people?

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What does The Muslim Vote’s success in the UK mean for Labor here?

Its campaign helped four seats in the UK flip to endorsed independents. A repeat performance in Australia could threaten two Labor ministers.

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Payman triggers a racist upwelling from deep in the political media psyche

Why has Fatima Payman elicited such a ferocious reaction from our mainly white media and political class? The reason points to the lie behind ‘social cohesion’.

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‘The will of the people’: OzBargain users keep hacking KFC for cheap chicken

Crikey takes you inside the cat-and-mouse game between the Colonel and Australia’s hungriest online deal hunters.

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