The truth about Trump's war on fentanyl
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the waters off the Caribbean, the United States military has been blowing small boats out of the ...
Australia’s childcare crisis
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adele Ferguson is an investigative journalist at the ABC. She’s spent more than a year reporti...
The 'jobs for mates' report Labor wanted to hide
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Labor came to power, it promised to clean up politics – to end the “jobs for mates&...
Are we set for major blackouts?
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Australian Energy Market Operator says the electricity grid is unprepared to manage the planned ...
How Australia’s ‘blood oil’ imports are funding Russia’s war
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine almost four years ago, Australian leaders have repeatedly stated ...
How teens are fighting the social media ban
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Right now, Tiktok is awash with videos of how to get around the social media ban for under 16s, whic...
The controversial limb-lengthening surgery set for Australia
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Limb lengthening surgery – where bones in your leg are broken, a rod inserted and extended &nd...
The man who exposed corruption in offshore detention
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At its height, in 2014, there were over a thousand people being held on Nauru, as part of Australia&...
How the internet is about to change for everyone
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australia’s plan to ban teenagers from social media has been called “world‑leading&rdq...
How Labor struck a deal on environment
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Environmental law reform has been sitting in the too-hard basket for years — under successive ...
Barnaby Joyce’s big move
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When we heard news that Barnaby Joyce was quitting The Nationals – we knew we’d cover it...
How long can the AI boom last?
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Companies are betting big on AI – and burning through cash to do it. They’re pouring hun...
David Pocock vs AI
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The year is 1934, and the setting is Scotland. Startling photos have emerged, appearing to capture t...
COP30’s missing words: coal, oil and gas
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Negotiators at this year’s global climate summit in Brazil almost didn’t reach a deal &n...
Putin’s new wartime allies
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Russia, the rules of power are being rewritten. For decades, Vladimir Putin governed through a ne...
Your BYD car is watching you
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A sleek Chinese-made ute is suddenly one of the most popular vehicles on Australian roads. It’...
Sussan Ley's media blitz
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we had Sussan Ley on 7am. But we weren’t alone. Sussan Ley was everywhere, speaking...
Donald Trump’s reversal on the Epstein files
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we saw something almost unprecedented in American politics: a unified Congress, as all bu...
Sussan Ley on ditching net zero
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sussan Ley describes herself as a moderate – a Liberal leader who wants to keep her party in t...
The new One Nation voters
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time in history, almost one in five Australians support One Nation. Their surge in pop...
Why Victoria's youth crime laws won't work
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, the Victorian government stunned even its own MPs – announcing laws that will allow...
What does Albanese stand for?
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Albanese leads a party that no longer argues in public. Labor presents as unified, consisten...
The enabling of neo-Nazis
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last weekend, neo-Nazis gathered outside NSW parliament. Organisers had registered the protest with ...
Sussan Ley and the killing season to come
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the Liberal party officially scrapped net zero – a move widely expected, but ...
How the Catholic church fights abuse survivors
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A year ago, the High Court handed down a decision that was a blow to survivors of child sexual abuse...
Is Albanese pressuring Labor to keep quiet on gambling?
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has reopened the fight over gambling reform. Indep...
The kids being kicked off the NDIS
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the year winds to an end, kids with autism and developmental delay face an uncertain future. Back...
Elon Musk unleashed
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The world’s richest man just got the world’s biggest pay rise, with Tesla shareholders a...
50 years on, could the Dismissal happen again?
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tomorrow marks fifty years since the infamous moment when a clearly nervous spokesperson for the Gov...
Police v protestors
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, more than a dozen people were arrested while protesting at a defence conference in Sydney...
Why scrapping net zero won’t save Sussan Ley
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 2021, the Coalition was united in their support for net zero, with then-prime minister Scott...
The bloody war over Sudan's gold
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The killing in the city of El Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region is so brutal and widespread that...
Trump’s nuclear arms race
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, Donald Trump instructed the Pentagon to “immediately” resume US nuclear weapo...
Chat GPT’s new erotica mode
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, the creators of ChatGPT have made a surprising announcement: erotica is coming to the worl...
The Mum fighting Queensland’s puberty blocker ban
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, trans teenagers in Queensland and their families had a short moment of joy: the supreme c...
The woman who exposed the childcare industry
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some childcare centres in Australia are so understaffed that children are left alone for hours. Othe...
Australia’s definitely-not-secret deal with Nauru has begun
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 2023, Australia’s top court made a landmark ruling: it was against the law for the Aus...
The secret ‘jobs for mates’ report Labor won’t release
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Murray Watt has talked a big game about fixing our environment laws by the end of the year. But this...
When Donald Trump met Xi Jinping
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have met face-to-face for the first time in six years. The meeting...
The cost of Trump's critical minerals ‘deal’
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Albanese’s $13 billion critical minerals deal with Donald Trump has been touted as a h...
Why the ACCC is suing Microsoft
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tech giants have invested billions into AI – and are looking for ways to get a return. S...
How profit beats safety in childcare
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Joshua Brown was arrested for allegedly abusing children at childcare centers across Melbourne,...
The NACC has a trust problem
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The National Anti-Corruption Commission has over 200 employees, an annual budget of $60 million, and...
How China took over the world’s critical minerals
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Anthony Albanese met with Donald Trump, the two leaders cut a deal on critical minerals worth $...
Is Barnaby at home in One Nation?
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Barnaby Joyce has announced he would not recontest his seat of New England, saying his “relati...
Prince Andrew, Epstein and the emails
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We are in this together… we’ll play some more soon.” That’s what Pri...
The ‘playbook’ lobbyists use to delay climate action
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Professor Christian Downie appeared before a Senate inquiry into climate and energy misinformat...
Trump and Albanese’s new friendship
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Albanese was so chuffed with his meeting with US President Donald Trump that the prime minis...
Russia can be beaten
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Donald Trump met Vladimir Putin in Alaska back in August, he rolled out the red carpet, talked ...
The world according to Tony Abbott
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Lewis writes about politics for Crikey. He’s been a close observer of Tony Abbot...
This is Alice Springs: Children of the Intervention
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From afar, Alice Springs is a whirlpool of myth and truth. A town with competing interests and few s...
This is Alice Springs: The coppers
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Police are everywhere in Alice Springs. You see them driving pursuit vehicles and caged vans on the ...
This is Alice Springs: Mparntwe
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alice Springs is littered with “For Sale” signs as those who can afford it are packing u...
Why Chalmers backtracked on big super balances
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the federal government dramatically re-wrote its signature tax policy. The changes ...
Why David Pocock was booted from parliament's sports club
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Australian Parliament Sports Club has been attracting a lot of unwanted attention lately –...
‘ISIS brides’ and the Aussie kids stuck in Syria
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a desert camp in northeast Syria, behind razor wire, with thousands of other people, live 12 Aust...
The embassy run by exiles
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the Taliban retook Afghanistan in August 2021, the country’s embassy in Canberra stayed o...
Why protests are getting more dangerous
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Melbourne photojournalist Alex Zucco was cleaning her camera lens when a police officer hit her dire...
The outdated trans study still doing damage
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1970s, eight children in Perth were sent to a psychiatric hospital to be ‘treated&rsquo...
Spotify and the AI arms race
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, Spotify’s founder, Daniel Ek, announced he’s stepping back from running the co...
'ISIS brides' and broken environment laws
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Labor is trying to land one of its toughest reforms – an overhaul of Australia’s environ...
Why Israel and Hamas agreed to Trump’s peace deal
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Almost two years to the day since October 7, Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of Dona...
How Albanese killed the climate wars
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Albanese was first elected on a pledge to fix the climate wars. The most recent test of that...
Why Albanese won't solve the housing crisis
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The government says it wants to make it easier for Australians to buy a home. Its latest expansion o...
Is another Coalition spill brewing?
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It started with a series of posts on social media. Nostalgic images of Australia from decades ago, a...
How the gambling lobby infiltrated social sports at Parliament House
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every Wednesday morning during sitting weeks, politicians, staffers, public servants and journalists...
The woman who exposed Robodebt
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Rick Morton won the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for his book Mean Streak. It&r...
'What happens if the US goes batshit crazy?'
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Albanese recently returned from a major overseas trip, rubbing shoulders with royalty and sh...
The MAGA billionaires taking over TikTok
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
TikTok is the most influential media platform for Australians under the age of 25. It’s where ...
Rick Morton and the spreadsheet of secrets
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rick Morton was writing about the restructures happening at several universities earlier this year w...
Trump's ‘peace’ plan for Gaza
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have unveiled a 20-point proposal they say could end the war in ...
What is left of Gaza’s hospitals?
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Rachel Coghlan is a palliative care doctor based in Melbourne, who worked with doctors in Gaza be...
Trump’s retribution list
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Donald Trump took power, he promised retribution against his political opponents. Now, he&rsquo...
Albo v Trump: Oct 20. Let’s goooooo.
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Albanese has finally managed to get a meeting with Donald Trump, after months of trying.&nbs...
Labor's guilt in the Optus failure
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The communications watchdog has opened a formal investigation into Optus after a 13-hour failure blo...
Australia's China contradiction: AUKUS vs the Pacific
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Albanese government has been on an unprecedented campaign of diplomatic activism in the Pacific ...
Dezi Freeman: from family photographer to alleged cop killer
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Almost a month after two police officers were shot and killed in regional Victoria, the accused gunm...
Washington's warning to Australia over Palestine
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in New York for the UN General Assembly, where Australia has form...
The Coalition is in crisis (again)
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Coalition is again in crisis. The latest Newspoll puts its primary vote at 27 per cent – i...
How the government’s climate targets stack up
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Having released the National Climate Risk Assessment – a report full of apocalyptic climate wa...
Israel rejects a genocide finding and widens its war
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The UN Commission of Inquiry has delivered its starkest assessment yet – finding that Israel h...
How Trump is weaponising the assassination of Charlie Kirk
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the days since the assassination of prominent right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, the White House o...
How one fossil-fuel giant captured Australia
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, the federal environment minister approved Woodside’s plans to keep its North West S...
‘An assault on transparent government’: Albanese’s plan to make secrecy easier
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In opposition, Anthony Albanese said Scott Morrison was running "A shadow government that preferred ...
Part 1: Victoria’s historic treaty
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan introduced the state's treaty bill into parliament, she said it...
Part 2: The politics and pushback
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Indigenous leaders across the country have welcomed Victoria’s treaty. The legislation will en...
How AI is being abused to create child sexual abuse material
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Images of child sexual abuse generated by artificial intelligence are on the rise. Australia’s...
Part 1: How Trump is shaping the financial industry in crypto’s favour
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US President Donald Trump was once skeptical of digital assets, saying Bitcoin “seems like a s...
Part 2: How Trump built a crypto empire out of ‘thin air’
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After saying that the value of cryptocurrencies were ‘based on thin air’, US President D...
‘You inflicted untold suffering’: the Erin Patterson sentence
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time ever, the Supreme Court of Victoria allowed a television camera to broadcast a se...
Australia’s definitely-not-secret deal with Nauru
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the government’s deal with Nauru was “hardly secret...
The political takeover of America’s public health
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Insiders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the agency is in chaos. Last week, th...
Kylie Moore-Gilbert on what Iran’s Revolutionary Guard thinks of Australia
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australia acted against Iran after ASIO found Tehran orchestrated two antisemitic arson attacks on A...
How a mainstream protest gave cover to neo-Nazi violence
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the lead-up to the so-called ‘March for Australia’, many people downplayed the involv...
When religious doctors refuse healthcare
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As hard-fought gains in reproductive medicine, voluntary assisted dying and LGBTQI health care have ...
Murray Watt on our broken environmental laws and saying 'yes' to Woodside
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Murray Watt has a big job: as federal environment minister, he’s been hand-picked by Albanese ...
Who was involved in Australia’s decision to expel the Iranian ambassador?
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese fronted the media this week alongside ASIO chief Mike Burgess, ...
The 'sovereign citizen' ideology behind Australia's most wanted man
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The man alleged to have killed two police officers in the Victorian town of Porepunkah this week sel...
‘Thriving Kids’ and the plan to shrink the NDIS
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The federal government says too many children are on the NDIS, and many of them are ‘over-serv...
The ‘subterfuge’ behind the March for Australia
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a group of Neo-Nazis recently took to the streets of Melbourne, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan...