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‘Mr Dutton is right’: News Corp papers grant nuclear power glowing coverage

News Corp has done a climate turnaround, spruiking the Coalition’s new nuclear policy at every opportunity. But how much Kool-Aid have its reporters drunk?

Crikey

Scott Morrison maintains his God delusion to the last

It’s all about human dignity, says Scott Morrison as he leaves Parliament. If only he’d ever had a chance to practise that.

Crikey

How the Coalition collaborated with ‘friendly media’ to silence robodebt victims

Alan Tudge’s office planned to use sympathetic outlets such as News Corp to counter reporting on scheme, royal commission report reveals

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A short history of AFP scandals and who they’ve benefited

The AFP are having a rough time of it. Crikey looks back on years of scandal, all seeming to benefit a certain type of person.

Crikey

Morrison’s a hypocrite on secrecy, but attacks on him undermine transparency

Criticising the former prime minister for revealing cabinet information only reinforces the sort of obsessive secrecy he used to protect himself.

Crikey

Cruelty, pettiness and real estate: in Confidence Man, Maggie Haberman wields eye popping anecdotes to plumb the Trump phenomenon

Donald Trump has been colonising the world’s attention for years, via television, on social media and in books. Ironically, given Trump likes books about as much as he does germs, more than 100 books about him are listed on Wikipedia, ranging from biographies and exposés to paeans of praise (think…

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News Corp again scoops the pool at News Awards as Walkleys reveal nominations

Story nominated for News gong branded ‘national disgrace’ by Indigenous reporters. Plus: SMH all wrapped up in The Everest

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Scott Morrison lost Australia’s trust. Why then should we trust his secret $170bn submarine deal?

The former PM, apparently acting alone and in secret, gave impetus to a deal that blindsided France and ambushed his Labor opposition.

Crikey

In Plagued, journalists have traded their independence for access, resulting in a kind of political pornography

The publication of Plagued, by Simon Benson and Geoff Chambers, is destined to become a classic study of the perils for journalists in writing books about current political events.

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The Australian’s buried scoop on Morrison raises the question: who knew what, when?

Oz journalists criticised for sitting on dynamite revelations of grab for power for two years. Plus: journalism’s gender gap

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Building hype, acting ethically or eyes wide shut? News Corp on Morrison’s ‘chaos chronicles’

The ex-PM’s phantom ministries is shaping up as the biggest Australian political story in recent history. So why was the media slow to run with it?

Crikey

The horror, the horror — Morrison’s quiet coup unleashes square-ups and hypocrisy on a grand scale

In the wake of the Morrison portfolio revelations, those in the blast zone are either saying a whole lot… or staying noticeably silent.

Crikey

View from The Hill: Morrison reverts to type in an unconvincing defence

One of the more bizarre things Scott Morrison said in his hour-long, sometimes combative, Wednesday news conference was that he’d had a “wonderful” conversation with Josh Frydenberg on Tuesday.

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View from The Hill: Morrison's passion for control trashed conventions and accountability

The only credible explanation for Scott Morrison personally installing himself, as an undisclosed ministerial partner, in several portfolios is the former prime minister’s passion for control.

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'Better than the blue tick': All the Canberrans on Russia's banned list

There are an estimated 44 Canberrans banned from Russia.

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