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Sliding doors on a flight to Washington: Swan’s budget turnaround

Wayne Swan went to America in April 2008 poised to slash and burn in his first budget. He returned with a very different focus, one that impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of Australians.

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Mehreen Faruqi’s case against Pauline Hanson is about racial discrimination, not defamation. There’s a big difference

‘If you’ve never felt the sting of racist abuse, you might think it’s no different from being defamed.’

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Indigenous group misrepresented on gas

An Aboriginal corporation accuses the government of misrepresenting its anti-gas stance, the Greens want Israel’s ambassador expelled, and a look at the highest-paid public servants.

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What’s a leak? What’s a drop? Australia’s scoop doyenne Sam Maiden weighs in ahead of the budget

‘Journalists who don’t break stories think everything is a drop.’

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Home Affairs is a disaster. It needs an urgent and radical overhaul

Home Affairs was so inept in its regulation of migration agents it simply allowed people it knew were accused of criminality to keep plying their trade.

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Is gas a ‘fraud’ or the ‘future’? It depends on whether Labor is in opposition or government

From calling Morrison’s gas-fired recovery plan a ‘fraud’ to spelling out its own gas-led future plan, Labor’s statements on the resource can be dizzying.

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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.

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‘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’.

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A Sydney council has banned books with same-sex parents from its libraries. But since when did councils ban books?

Australia has a long and complicated history with censorship and book banning.

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‘Exhausting nightmare’: No shortage of Qantas qualms for Crikey readers

‘Bonuses are usually paid to employees for their performance enhancing a company’s image, not for bringing their employer to the verge of destruction.’

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Insecure and overworked: It’s getting harder to pursue an academic career

Academic careers are getting harder to maintain. What does this mean for the future of Australian universities?

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Albo commits to gas past 2050

Labor says we’ll be using gas well past 2050, Jason Clare backtracks on his Palestine chant statement, and Greg Hunt goes after the COVID-era premiers for their ‘unilateral’ decision making.

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Everyone loves manufacturing — but no-one has the workers

Emmanual Macron is dead keen to restore French manufacturing. But there’s a big impediment in the way: there aren’t enough workers. And things aren’t any better here at home.

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Is Sky News Australia’s influence dying?

Sky News Australia once dominated social media platforms, peaking in 2020. Now, it’s a shadow of its former self.

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Greens and Nats unlikely allies when it comes to cracking down on Coles and Woolies

The Nats have said they’re for divestiture powers, putting them at odds with their Coalition partner.

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Reserve Bank starts to realise how much damage it has inflicted on ordinary people

The Reserve Bank has belatedly acknowledged that its punitive rate rises have inflicted more harm on households than it expected.

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Can we prevent the darkness that AI will bring?

Artificial intelligence is ubiquitous, global and increasingly hard to regulate. Would an AI Commission help?

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‘Man vs bear’ debate is emblematic of the paradoxical choices women face every day

One of the latest viral trends on male violence against women poses the question ‘would you rather be stuck in the woods alone with a man or a bear?’ Hannah Robertson isn’t surprised women are choosing the bear.

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Media treatment of Chinese Australians a useful study in ‘social cohesion’ debate

Persistent media narratives about Chinese Australians — as well as alarmist talk about war with China — has only served to alienate the community.

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ScoMo finally grilled, media power couple are expecting, and some curious flight logs

‘Why are they being aggressive-y?’ Scott Morrison faced some tough questions during his appearance on the Kyle and Jackie O show.

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Is ‘from the river to the sea’ violent?

Albanese and Frydenberg’s discussion on the controversial chant, no road charges for EV users, and a Western Sydney council has banned same-sex parenting books.

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A lobbying future made in Australia — by Labor and its mates

While partisan lobbying firms play a role in government decisions, the opposition is right to be sceptical.

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What’s in the budget? Here’s what we know so far

Jim Chalmers hopes for a second surplus, but says there’s no need to fear ‘scorched earth austerity’.

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Qantas ‘ghost flights’ saga speaks to a bigger problem

The airline’s management has refused to take proper accountability for its misdeeds.

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‘Pretending to care’: Walkley Awards face renewed boycott after doubling down on fossil fuel sponsors

The Walkley Foundation is forcing journalists to pick between industry recognition and self-respect.

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