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The media’s drive for traffic has hit a dead end. What now?

The mythical mass audience is done being pushed and pulled across increasingly marginal viral offerings dressed up as news.

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More professional dog-abusers losing taxpayer money

Greyhound Racing NSW is riddled with scandals, but none get a mention in its most recent annual report. Nor does it mention hundreds of dogs killed due to racing.

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Kash Patel will do a heck of a job at the FBI

Donald Trump’s preferred head of the FBI wants to target journalists. Meanwhile the bureau’s actual job will go by the wayside.

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Albanese government gets an ‘F’ from voters on housing, wages

New polling shows voters are scathing of the government’s attempts to address the cost of housing and wage growth, and a new register will be set up requiring telcos to recognise and block scam texts.

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New exhibition searches for optimistic visions of a future emerging from industrial ruins

Though it fails to adequately tackle how yesteryear’s dystopia became today’s reality, ACMI’s new exhibition tries something arguably riskier.

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Is Labor fated to be a one-term wonder? Crikey readers on a long year in Parliament

Plus what you thought of Simon Birmingham’s legacy…

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Over a year on, how is Capital Brief going?

Capital Brief was once described as ‘if the AFR was written for people without grey hairs’. Is that a sustainable business model, one year on?

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NSW right-wingers call for Malcolm Turnbull’s expulsion from the Liberal Party for the… fifth time

None of the efforts have so far been successful — but insiders say there are other reasons conservatives would keep pushing for the ex-PM to be kicked out of the party.

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Voters are disillusioned — and parliamentary game-playing just makes it worse

Why did it take the use of a guillotine motion in the final sitting week of Parliament to progress legislation that had stalled in the Senate for months?

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Paul Fletcher’s grand conspiracy theory is the most interesting thing he’s ever said

Paul Fletcher — a nullity of a politician who has occupied Bradfield for 15 years — is panicking over being replaced by a community independent.

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Long COVID is becoming a serious social and economic issue for Australia

Addressing this health challenge is vital to getting many people back participating fully in their lives.

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‘As vicious as anything I had ever seen’: Robert Manne on being News Corp’s target

“According to John Kidd, my ‘intellectual arrogance’ was ‘breathtaking’. According to John McCarthy, it was not The Australian I disliked, it was ‘the Australian people’.”

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Life without Bill Shorten: Labor eyes frontbench reshuffle

Anthony Albanese is considering a new-year cabinet shake-up following the retirement of Bill Shorten, and the housing market appears to finally be losing steam.

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It’s true, the kids are not alright. But they never have been

Was there ever a collection of young people who weren’t described as depressed and doomed?

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Qantas and Virgin pilots only want one thing this Christmas

Who’s playing naughty, and who’s playing nice?

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Australia has passed the teen social media ban. Now, the hard part — making sure it helps, not hurts

The Albanese government’s success in passing the teen social media ban is the start, not the end, of a process that will include a lot of difficult decisions.

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Raygun, Brat, and The Bear: Canberra’s Press Gallery turns to memes amid election season

As the Senate dealt with ‘real’ politics, the water cooler politics of the parliamentary press gallery was also heating up. Crikey was in the hallways for the gossip.

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Labor ends the year with a flurry of legislation good, bad and indifferent

The end-of-year flood of legislation is a mixed bag of good and bad policy, but Labor delivered much of its agenda.

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Why is no one talking about the politicisation of public sector plants!?

After Gina Rinehart made the cogent suggestion that the public sector sell all its pot plants, please enjoy this… sigh… potted history of plant-based controversies.

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Birmingham was a failed moderate who leaves a legacy of rolling over and letting the right win

Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham was a leading moderate, or so we were repeatedly told. But what does he have to show for it?

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No, we shouldn’t abolish the NACC — the problem is with its leader, not the institution itself

The National Anti-Corruption Commission isn’t perfect, but under better management it could be a real threat to the corrupt.

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Yes, we should abolish the NACC — it doesn’t even know what corruption is

The commissioner of the anti-corruption commission does not seem to know — or wilfully attempts to redefine — what corruption actually is.

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Incredible 32-bill day ends parliamentary sitting year

Parliament has adjourned for the year with the final day seeing an astounding 32 bills passed, and opposition Senate leader Simon Birmingham has called time on his political career.

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Pro-Palestine activist alleges The Australian defamed them

The Australian appears set to fight a defamation proceeding brought by a pro-Palestine activist this week.

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Labor’s term began with promise on the environment. It ends with things worse than ever

The harsh lesson of this term of Parliament is that no major-party government can be trusted to take real climate action.

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