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Age verification won’t work, but idiot verification is doing fine in the male violence debate

Imposing age verification in an effort to block kids’ access to pornography will just send Australians to the darker and more sinister parts of the internet.

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Let’s get this right and avoid knee-jerk decisions on misogyny and men’s violence against women

The reality is that many young people access adult content on social media sites, rather than dedicated pornography sites.

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It’s algorithms, targeting and ads: The worst online harms stem from the systems that feed content

Content can harm, but not all harms come from content. Our underlying digital systems must be the focus — and we can’t rely on the industry to fix them.

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Rent, debt, food, petrol: The mighty task of tackling cost of living, by the numbers

Across rent, education, food and petrol, Crikey breaks down the surging cost of living crisis ahead of Jim Chalmers’ third Labor budget.

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WA premier’s teen defamation danger

Two teenagers have accused the WA premier of defaming them, a 15-year-old charged with planning a terrorist act allegedly wanted to ‘attack Jews’, and the salaries of university heads have bloated even as the institutions post deficits.

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Gaza is the worst of it, but across the world, journalism is under unprecedented assault.

If we criminalise, dismiss or sideline journalism that tells inconvenient truths, we will destroy our capacity for sensible public debate.

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National security bureaucrats extend their grip deeper into the economy

For years we’ve been treating foreign investment as more and more about national security. Now the government has gone even further.

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University Gaza protests ‘spread like wildfire’ despite lashing rain

Crikey visited the activist encampment at Sydney University, where students are pitching tents to protest Israel’s war in Gaza.

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Albo’s changing tune, and are you accidentally running for president of Iceland?

Plus: a New Zealand arts spokesman once saw a musical!

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Foxtel’s Hubbl burst by security breach in ‘credential stuffing’ attack

Foxtel’s streaming services have been struck by a security incident less than two months after the launch of streaming box Hubbl.

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Spies from the fascist Modi government upset a trite national security narrative

India’s ‘nest of spies’ were in Australia doing exactly what Chinese spies are regularly accused of. When it’s China, the media goes nuts — quite the contrast to yesterday’s revelations.

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The Bonza fiasco shows action must be taken on Qantas’ market monopoly

If we’re cracking down on market monopolies, our next target must be Qantas, which holds undue power in the aviation sector.

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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.’

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ASIO boss alleges Indian ‘nest of spies’

ASIO boss Mike Burgess says a group of spies kicked out of Australia in 2020 were Indian nationals, Nicolle Flint’s political comeback, and Linda Reynolds refuses to settle her Higgins defamation case.

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Culture, media and male violence: It starts at the top, with Seven and News Corp

If you’re looking for a cultural component to male violence, look no further than Seven and News Corp and their recent treatment of women.

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Something feels different: Are we finally at a tipping point on men’s violence against women?

I have been writing about men’s violence against women as a journalist in Australia for nearly ten years. In many ways, I have seen this show before. But this feels different…

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Could the chaos in Scotland help decide the coming UK election?

Scotland’s youngest ever first minister has resigned after the collapse of a power sharing arrangement with the country’s Greens, and UK Labour will be looking to take advantage later this year.

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Climate change will displace millions of people. Australia’s asylum seeker policy must be ready

Australia’s cruel immigration policy is in desperate need of an overhaul — particularly given the huge influx of climate refugees we can expect in the coming years.

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These numbers show just how concentrated Australia’s media market is

While Australian media companies face commercial non-viability, big tech is powering ahead with truly colossal revenues.

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Labor reduces transparency to the quantum level in deal with US firm

The deal to invest $940 million in a Californian quantum computer company is marked by plenty of secrecy and no clarity on the case for the spending.

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It is time to cut off anti-journalism at its source

Now that most of social media is cutting off distribution from the anti-journalism factories maybe we should shut up the workshops.

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America just banned non-compete clauses. Australia should follow suit

‘If lousy businesses can’t retain staff with subpar wages and conditions, they deserve to suffer the consequences. Let’s let employees vote with their feet.’

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Men killing women on the rise

The number of men killing women is rising even when the overall homicide rate drops, a Victorian MP has been booted from the Labor Party, and the government is putting nearly a billion dollars into a tech start-up.

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‘It wasn’t about him’: Anti-domestic violence activist says PM should apologise

The organiser of an anti-domestic violence rally in Canberra on Sunday burst into tears after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took the mic. Sarah Williams says the PM owes her an apology.

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Governments can change the culture of male violence — by locking up more men

Governments shouldn’t wait for cultural change on violence against women — they can achieve it with greater enforcement and punishment.

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