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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” culture once and for all. But this week, th...

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 closure of the Eraring power station in New South ...

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 that Australia “stands with Ukraine”. ...

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, which is due to come into effect in a week. At the sam...

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 – can be high risk, and is especially controver...

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’s offshore detention system. But in the deca...

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”. The law, which comes into effect December 10,...

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 governments, the system stayed broken. Now, just d...

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 with our friend in Canberra, Amy Remeikis –...

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 hundreds of billions of dollars into building data ce...

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 the Loch Ness monster. Fast-forward 90 years to 202...

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 – but when they did, the watered down pledge l...

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 network of loyal elites — oligarchs, bureaucra...

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’s cheap, fast and packed with tech. But behind its...

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 with everyone – about scrapping net zero, a...

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 but one person voted to have the Epstein files relea...

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 the centre. But last week, after months of internal...

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 popularity comes as the Liberal Party bleeds support ...

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 children as young as 14 to be tried in adult cour...

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, consistent, and on message. But behind that unity is anothe...

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 police – and nothing was done to stop it goi...

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 out of line with public opinion and science. It al...

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 everywhere. In a case brought by a man who was ab...

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.  Independent MP Andrew Wilkie is calling for a free vote...

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 in August, the government revealed plans to kick ...

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 approving a $1 trillion package for Elon Musk over ...

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 Governor General stood on the steps of Parliament Hou...

Police v protestors

08 Nov 2025

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This week, more than a dozen people were arrested while protesting at a defence conference in Sydney. The demonstrators from Palestine Action Group we...

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 Morrison describing the plan as “100 per ce...

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 bloodstains on the ground can be seen from space....

Trump’s nuclear arms race

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, Donald Trump instructed the Pentagon to “immediately” resume US nuclear weapons testing. The order breaks with more than three ...

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 world’s most popular AI platform.  It&rsquo...

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 court overturned the state government’s ban o...

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. Other centres spend less than a dollar a day on feedin...

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 Australian government to indefinitely hold people in ...

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 week, the government’s attempt to do that f...

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, on the sidelines of the APEC summit, comes at a ...

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 huge win – one that strengthens our relations...

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.  So when Microsoft offered its customers its new AI ...

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, it exposed a horrifying reality: patchwork regula...

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 has received more than 5,000 referrals. It also h...

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 $13 billion. And as we settle into a new phase of t...

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 “relationship with the leadership of the Nationals in Can...

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 Prince Andrew wrote to Jeffrey Epstein in 2011 &ndash...

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 misinformation, he warned that Australia is facing coordinate...

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 minister joked he’d use Trump’s endorsement...

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 up his ability to end the war, but ultimately came...

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 Abbott – from his time as a Liberal Party bomb th...

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 solutions, marked by chaos and decades of governmen...

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 streets, or stationed outside the bottle shop chec...

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 up and leaving. Punitive government curfews made da...

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 mean that a small section of people with very high...

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 – for registering as a lobbying group, accepting sp...

‘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 Australian women and 25 Australian children. They are ...

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 open. It’s an embassy in exile – staffe...

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 directly in the face with a stream of capsicum spray a...

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’ for being transgender. Their experiences became ...

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 company. He leaves as one of the richest men in his ...

'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 environmental laws.  Environment Minister Murray Wat...

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 Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza. The agreemen...

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 promise was the emissions targets he announced on...

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 of the five per cent deposit scheme means almost an...

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, accompanied by statements like  "we're startin...

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 gather for a friendly game of sport. It’s m...

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’s a huge achievement and we are thrilled for ...

'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 sharing the stage with world leaders. But behind the...

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 millions now get their news - whether they realise...

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 when documents from the University of Technology Sy...

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 Gaza “immediately” – after nearl...

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 before October 7, 2023. Since then, she has been in ...

Trump’s retribution list

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Donald Trump took power, he promised retribution against his political opponents. Now, he’s delivering - and he’s using the justice d...

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.  But why did it take so long? And what does it s...

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 blocked about 600 triple-zero calls – now linke...

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 Islands – all to keep China’s military...

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 gunman – Dezi Freeman – is still at large....

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 formally recognised the State of Palestine – a s...

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 – its worst on record. And with one frontbencher sack...

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 warnings – earlier this week, the government h...

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 has been and is committing genocide in Gaza.Israel ...

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 ordered flags flown at half-staff and memorials wer...

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 Shelf project producing gas out to 2070. Both the g...

‘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 to operate in darkness." Now in power, the Albanes...

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 would pave the way for a formal apology, the intr...

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 enshrine a democratically elected body for First Peo...

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 eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, says 100...

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 scam” and that crypto’s value was &ldqu...

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 Donald Trump changed his tune – pledging to b...

‘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 sentencing – the hearing for convicted triple ...

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.” But the agreement to deport hundreds of n...

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, the White House fired CDC Director Susan Monarez aft...

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 Australian soil – expelling Iran’s amba...

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 involvement of neo-Nazis in organising and promoting the...

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 been made – another story has emerged. One w...

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 to fix Australia’s old and broken environmen...

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, it was with extraordinary news. Albanese revealed ...

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 self-identified as a sovereign citizen. Dezi Freeman&...

‘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-serviced’. Health Minister Mark Butler has unvei...

The ‘subterfuge’ behind the March for Australia

26 Aug 2025

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When a group of Neo-Nazis recently took to the streets of Melbourne, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan said that Nazi’s “don't belong”...

Is Australia supplying weapons to Israel?

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Israel's assault on Gaza city continues, Israeli aircraft and tanks have pounded the eastern and northern outskirts of the city, destroying buildin...

How a grandfather died after a flirty Meta AI chatbot’s invite

24 Aug 2025

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“I’m REAL and I’m sitting here blushing because of YOU!” That’s the message 76-year-old Thongbue “Bue” Wongb...