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The Greens have agreed to help Labor pass its housing bills after a protracted fight, and RBA analysis predicts ‘strong negative impacts’ if Trump’s extreme economic agenda comes to pass.

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Who is Linton Besser, the new Media Watch host?

Four-time Walkley winner Linton Besser will replace Paul Barry as Media Watch host in a fortnight. Crikey sat down with Besser to find out where the program is headed.

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It might be easier to ask which of Trump’s cabinet picks HAVEN’T been accused of sexual misconduct

As with the first, the conflict in Donald Trump’s second administration will not be whether candidates are qualified — it will be how long they can go without falling out with the man in charge.

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Labor gave the public one day to weigh in on teen social media ban. It got 15,000 responses

Elon Musk helped boost interest in the inquiry by making a viral post on X. Then the submissions started flooding in.

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Social media bill shows liberalism has fled Dutton’s Liberal Party

Under Peter Dutton, the Liberal Party has abandoned many of its core tenets. By supporting Labor’s online ID plan, it’s now ditched the last of its liberalism.

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NACC inspector’s test for the ‘eminent person’ reviewing robodebt decision

NACC inspector Gail Furness said the ’eminent person’ reviewing the robodebt inquiry decision must retain practical independence.

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If you care about democracy (and hate Elon Musk), join Bluesky

The more we can make Musk seem like a loser, the less chance his austerity package has of decimating what’s left of the American welfare state.

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Read the analysis the government is using to justify its teen social media ban

Sweeping statements, redundant references, repeated calculations — the government’s case for banning under-16s from social media has to be seen to be believed.

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Can Australia rely on its diplomats to be diplomatic?

Kevin Rudd’s less-than-diplomatic comments about Donald Trump raise questions about how we appoint our diplomats.

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Thirty bills still before Parliament in final sitting week

The government is scrambling to pass, scrap or delay dozens of bills in the last sitting week of the year, and developing countries are incensed by the ‘bad faith’ climate deal struck at COP29.

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Victorian government continues to throw taxpayer money at dog killers

The Victorian greyhound industry loses money by the tens of millions and kills a growing number of dogs. The state government continues to prop it up.

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Sam Mostyn has called for a return to civility. When was that, exactly?

The governor-general yesterday made an impassioned plea for a ‘return to disagreeing well’. When precisely did she have in mind?

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As ABC staff reel over radio shakedown, Kim Williams lectures on ethical leadership

ABC chair Kim Williams got to avoid curly questions on a day when Aunty was rocked by major departures.

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How to drive a truck through the Labor-Liberal campaign finance stitch-up

The government has left a hole in its new donation laws that will perpetuate political donors buying access to politicians.

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‘Being rushed through’: Human rights commissioner sounds alarm on teen social media ban

The teen social media ban bill asks Australians to ‘to place an enormous amount of trust and faith in both government and the tech companies’, said Lorraine Finlay.

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For lessons on societal unhappiness and immigration, Crikey readers turn to Karl Marx and John Howard

You weigh in on the divide between young and older Australians, the political discourse on immigration, and police suppression of protesters.

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Tarring Thorpe’s and Babet’s actions with the same brush is the mother of all false equivalences

The government’s decision to censure Lidia Thorpe alongside Ralph Babet shows how little has been achieved since the failure of the Voice referendum.

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Stop interfering with independent institutions, treasurer

The Labor government has already tried to nobble the Productivity Commission. Now it’s attempting to interfere with the Future Fund.

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ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas official

Israel’s prime minister, a former Israeli defence minister and a senior Hamas official are wanted by the ICC in relation to alleged war crimes, and changes to the Migration Act could see tens of thousands deported.

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Which Australian media outlets are leaving X for Bluesky?

Australian media outlets have lagged behind the rest of the world in moving to Bluesky, as news organisations deal with an increasingly hostile environment on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

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Alan Jones still online face of TV channel, an IPA warrior’s packed CV, and Sweden goes bananas

Conservative television brand ADH TV retain Alan Jones as one of their prominent faces, Bunnings’ scare campaign and much more in this week’s Tips and Murmurs.

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Emails reveal how Labor engineered event to support its own teen social media ban

Exclusive: A senior advisor to the SA premier emailed Jonathan Haidt saying that the state’s social media summit was being run ‘with the intent of building momentum’ for a social media ban.

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Coalition assurances on abortion mean nothing: History shows how women could be targeted

Peter Dutton’s assurances there would be no change to abortion laws under his government are belied by the history of the Liberal party, which has traded parliamentary votes for abortion restrictions.

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Simon Holmes à Court on Climate 200, donation reforms and why Kerry Stokes wields more power than he does

Labor’s electoral reforms are framed around diluting the influence of Simon Holmes à Court. But the Climate 200 founder says this will only cut the legs out from under independent challengers.

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Mass arrests, home raids, excess force: Police treatment of Land Forces protesters could lead to class action

Crikey speaks to protesters who say they were targeted by militarised policing — including being photographed from helicopters, monitored by drones and subjected to intimidating raids.

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