Two cheers for a ‘made in Australia’ policy: let’s make more actual stuff here
We should make more of the things of our life, and know that we are doing so. We are a physical, social, cooperative species, not the airy avatars of economic models, point particles of labour and desire.
An array of countries, led by China, will decide BHP’s Anglo American buy
BHP’s bid for Anglo American doesn’t rely merely on investors. It also needs the goodwill of any array of governments around the world.
Australia’s student debt crisis will linger if education is seen as a private benefit, not public good
It’s clear governments don’t want to pay for higher education, with expansion of the university sector paid for by students and their families.
Meloni snubs Albanese as Italy prepares to host G7
Australia is so far not one of the countries invited to be a guest at Italy’s G7 summit, hosted by populist prime minister Giorgia Meloni.
Seven settles, an Insta-famous pooch in defamation hot water, and complaints are the way to go
This week in Media Briefs: Seven settles a defamation case, and a cavoodle returns to court.
Here we go again: ‘Terror’ hysteria brings out the worst in the political-media class
Australia is in the middle of a new rounds of demands for curbing of basic liberties, this time prompted by a single failed knifing.
Germany’s distortion of memory culture holds warnings for Australia
Nothing could have prepared me for the censorship, repression and anti-Palestine propaganda I’ve witnessed.
Why is it taking so long to fix our crap environment laws — and why aren’t people ‘chill’ about it?
Interrogating the delay to address our inadequate environment laws, what was originally promised, and why the government seems to be dragging its feet.
Labor’s deal with Star Casino is looking grubbier and grubbier
Why is Star Casino in Sydney so arrogant and contemptuous of regulation? Because it has a political party and a major union on its side.
Like many Aboriginal kids we’ve lost too soon, this child was loved by his family, not by the state
No words can express the devastating suicide of a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy held in the custody of the state and denied the care of his family.
Anzac Day culture war flops, Sky falls for furry hoax (again), and WA Libs scout colourful character
What if they held a culture war and no one showed up? Plus the Liberals eyeing up some prime real estate in Western Australia.
Of course the footage has news value but that has never been the test for whether something is fit for publication.
Until now, resource exports have largely shielded Australia from China’s economic problems. No longer.
SBS ‘unhinged’, PVO’s new gig, and turmoil at Seven
This week’s Briefs brings you the mood at the national multicultural broadcaster, while Seven faces the music and van Onselen finds a plum new job.
Faraz Tahir, Bondi Junction and what religious persecution actually looks like
Next time someone fulminates about religious freedoms and persecution in Australia, remember their silence on Bondi Junction victim Faraz Tahir.
A nuclear solution for Dutton: You get a reactor! And YOU get a reactor! Everyone gets a reactor!
Rather than bribing a few voters to have a large nuclear reactor next to them, why not put small modular reactors in every single electorate? It’s only fair.
Australia could capitalise off manufacturing — but we’re behind the eight ball
‘Australians have, decade following decade, proven themselves capable of design and innovation to the equal or better of any nation across a multitude of products.’
There is an alternative to neoliberalism, but Australia’s media class won’t tell you that
The climate emergency is forcing journalists and columnists into something more honest.
NACC unlikely to fault government over Brittany Higgins’ compo claim, ex-judge says
A former judge who reportedly argued for the anti-corruption body to investigate the payout says his words were ‘misunderstood’.
Hugh Grant and the glorious history of UK tabloids
The Sun’s publisher insist that their ‘enormous’ settlement with Hugh Grant is not an admission of any impropriety. And with this history, who’d doubt them?
Peter van Onselen named new Daily Mail Australia political editor
Former Liberal staffer and Sky News Australia host Peter van Onselen is the new political editor of Daily Mail Australia, a surprise move that generated chortles across the media industry.
Labor’s finally getting the message on Gaza. Muslim community candidates is the next step
Labor has taken its non-Anglo base for granted. Community candidates and supporting Greens in key seats will take the revolt further.
‘Obscene’: Shame on everyone complicit in Qantas’ bloated paycheque
Today you respond to Crikey’s breakdown of how much taxpayer money Qantas has received, plus weigh in on Gaza and Peter Dutton.
Albo is right to want to make things in Australia. He’ll just need a bit more cash
It’s a new era of geopolitical competition out there, where old certainties of ‘free trade’ are ending. Australia needs to pivot — will Albanese’s policy be enough?
Labor’s supermarket code of conduct will likely inflate grocery prices
Improving incomes for supermarket suppliers comes with a cost for consumers. But we’re already used to it in some areas.
Presenting schizophrenia as though it satisfies our questions is deeply stigmatising
Implying that the Bondi Junction attacker’s mental health diagnosis alone can explain why he decided to attack and murder multiple people is simplistic, offensive and damaging.
Birth trauma inquiry reveals just one of the ways NSW is failing on mental health
The lack of mental health support for people who have experienced birth trauma is emblematic of a wider crisis facing the state’s mental health care system.
Are we really prepared for the climate crisis when it comes to infrastructure?
While neoliberals might dream of market solutions to climate risk, the reality is that most of the cost of adaptation will need to be socialised.
It’s time to change how we talk about the climate
Crikey readers have a few tips for journalists — and politicians — on how to talk about the risks of a warming planet.
People want better lives, not a PM on a podium in front of a submarine
Guy Rundle
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Everyone hates social media, right? But stop pretending you’re better than it
Bernard Keane
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Social cohesion? Too late! We need to distinguish robust speech from violence
Guy Rundle
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