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What the heck is going on with bitcoin?

The cryptocurrency’s value has doubled this year and shows no signs of an early demise.

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Dutton calls the shots as Labor folds on visa breaches

Labor bowing to opposition demands and rushing through mandatory minimum sentences on bridging visa breaches is condemned as ‘deeply disturbing’ by Labor veteran Kim Carr, and Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin is considering pulling the plug.

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Landmark detention ruling latest in long line of costly asylum seeker legal battles

Are you a government in a bind with an unhelpful court decision? Here’s Crikey’s guide to getting around it.

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The secrecy that surrounds Australia’s involvement in Israel’s atrocities

Co-belligerency is more than a failure in soft diplomacy, as Australians are being kept in the dark about operations at Pine Gap.

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Finally a bump in wages — a one-off, but welcome anyway

Australian workers had real wages growth on average in the September quarter — if only of 0.1%.

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Anthony Albanese accuses Peter Dutton of weaponising anti-Semitism

‘That you would attempt to weaponise anti-Semitism in this chamber and make it a partisan issue is, frankly, beyond contempt’.

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ABC boss slams activist journos, and Barnaby invites News Corp to his big day

In this week’s Media Briefs, ABC journos cop a blast from the boss, News Corp re-Joyces at a country wedding, and spinning a yarn in WA.

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There is a way to restore Bill Hayden’s vision of universal healthcare in Australia

Resetting the Medicare rebate level and indexing it will breathe new life into Australia’s first truly universal healthcare program.

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The right is using the fight against anti-Semitism to dehumanise Palestinians and justify slaughter

The right was routinely anti-Semitic for decades. Now it’s anti-Palestinians. The object may change, but the desire to bully and victimise remains.

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It’s time to talk tough to Israel: UN expert

UN human rights official Francesca Albanese says Australia should be criticising Israel for bombarding Gaza and not doing so is ‘dangerous’, and new legislation will mean released immigration detainees will be jailed if they breach visa conditions.

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PwC’s Russian sanctions scandal confirms ‘ethical failure of big business’: Greens senator

The accounting firm’s Cyprus arm is being investigated for alleged attempts to help its Russian clients evade sanctions.

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Fabio, Shaq, Merlin Luck and other celebs help us make sense of geopolitics

To honour these insights on the Middle East, we take a look at a glorious history of celebrities telling us what they think. Why we don’t know.

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Yet more Vic Lib drama, WA premier’s wasted energy, and the missing robodebt recommendation

In yet another packed week from the bunker: Victorian Libs are the gift that keeps on giving, and ‘Operation Lockatoo’ — man vs bird.

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Instagram user unknowingly debunks own electric vehicle charging claim in viral video

The NRMA’s electric vehicle charging station in the outback is, in fact, fully powered by solar but with a backup diesel generator.

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What does ‘national interest’ mean when it comes to Labor’s China policy?

The language around ‘national interest’ vs ‘national security’ has the Albanese government walking a tightrope.

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When corporate crime takes many years instead of just one…

Sam Bankman-Fried was tried and convicted in a mere 12 months. If he’d been in Australia, he’d still be living the high life, a Crikey reader says.

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Marcia Langton: Indigenous peoples have little in common with Palestinians

Indigenous leader Professor Marcia Langton says the nearly half of Gazans who voted for Hamas helped bring about their own fate in the Israel-Hamas war, and fossil fuel titan Chevron is burying just a third of the carbon pollution it promised to.

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Sunak makes Cameron foreign secretary, says AUKUS will help UK ‘shape the world’

The nuclear subs pact will allow the UK to be ‘hard-headed’, PM Rishi Sunak says as he brings former PM David Cameron back to cabinet.

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Defence confesses that Hunter-class frigates purchase was a disaster

The Coalition-era frigate program is back in the spotlight after Defence admitted the process that led to selecting BAE was profoundly flawed.

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Live animal export is depraved and brutal. Its end can’t come quickly enough

Remember the sickening footage of sheep boiling to death in their own filth in 2017? No-one has been held accountable, or ever will be.

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International law does not allow Israel to kill or harm children and bomb hospitals

The rules of war are clear: children and patients in hospital are immune from assault in all circumstances. Israel has no legal cover.

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Sweaty T-shirts, tampons and other ‘weird shit’ people have sent to politicians

Last week it was a bag of weed sent to Scott Morrison. This week ANU researcher Daniel Casey offers a wild history of props being sent to PMs.

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We see and hear more in the media about the Middle East, but we learn a lot less

There’s so much more going on in the region than the Israel-Hamas war, but it’s not as clicky so it goes under-reported.

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Kerry Stokes’ failing Seven can still get a media deal done

Seven West Media has hit a new low on the sharemarket but it’s still climbing on board the latest deal to shrink Australian media diversity.

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Another AUKUS deal on the table

Australia, the US and the UK would have a military-style free trade zone under the Defence Trade Controls Amendment Bill 2023 introduced quietly last week, and ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott says the Australian dream of home ownership ‘has become the preserve of the rich’.

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