Crikey

01/03/2025

The Climate Change Authority provides independent advice on climate impacts. But the Coalition doesn't like its advice... so here come the threats, writes Bernard Keane.

The Coalition says it will target the Climate Change Authority for revealing what nuclear power would do to our carbon emissions. It's the same type of intimidation tactics we're seeing out of Trump and Musk in the US.

28/02/2025

The knee-jerk negativity brings to mind one of the Coalition’s biggest policy fumbles in the communications space: the last-minute switch to the rollout of the National Broadband Network.

The Coalition has slammed the government's proposal for solving mobile blackspots as 'rushed'. But will it go so far as to block it?

28/02/2025

If the energy sector produces comparatively more emissions under the nuclear scenario, it shifts the burden of emissions reduction to meet Australia’s Paris targets onto other sectors.

Read it here: https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/25/peter-dutton-nuclear-power-carbon-emissions/

28/02/2025

The Coalition is happy to roast Labor for going slow on the news bargaining incentive. Just don’t ask them about Trump...

The Coalition is happy to roast Labor for going slow on the news bargaining incentive. Just don't ask about Trump.

28/02/2025

There were no questions about the AFP’s investigation into the agency, although Tourism Australia's Phillipa Harrison answered “yes” when a senator suggested the investigation was still ongoing.

The managing director of the government agency acknowledged its failings, but also defended its 'stringent procurement policy'.

28/02/2025

From hobbling environmental agencies to sending counterterrorism cops after climate protestors, the real rulers of WA won't change no matter what happens on March 8.

Neither prospective steward of Australia's petro-state hermit kingdom is proposing any meaningful change to how power works in Western Australia.

28/02/2025

Hundreds of thousands of Australians' chest X-rays were used to train harrison.ai's AI models before $32 million was poured into the company.

The fund has said it will 'review' its investment, including whether its board knew about the privacy commissioner's inquiries into why hundreds of thousands of chest X-rays belonging to Australian patients were given to harrison.ai without patients' knowledge or consent.

28/02/2025

Trump is not the isolationist he once was. He's set on MAGAfying the rest of the world, using tariffs to dictate policies to other governments. Bernard Keane wants to know: Do our leaders have a plan?

Donald Trump 2.0 is a very different beast. What are our leaders going to do about it?

28/02/2025

“We’ve always had a fairly stringent procurement policy,” Tourism Australia's Phillipa Harrison told Senate estimates.

The managing director of the government agency acknowledged its failings, but also defended its 'stringent procurement policy'.

28/02/2025

Opinion | University Australia's backing of a new definition of antisemitism will be devastating to the principles on which all universities are supposed to be built. Among them, equality.

Of all the panicked silencing measures executed by Australian institutions in defence of Israel over the past year, this is the worst. Yet.

28/02/2025

At the only leaders debate ahead of the WA state election there was bipartisan silence on the environment. Here's why.

Neither prospective steward of Australia's petro-state hermit kingdom is proposing any meaningful change to how power works in Western Australia.

28/02/2025

The federal government has poured $32 million into controversial Australian AI company harrison.ai through its investment fund, and now it's under the microscope.

The fund has said it will 'review' its investment, including whether its board knew about the privacy commissioner's inquiries into why hundreds of thousands of chest X-rays belonging to Australian patients were given to harrison.ai without patients' knowledge or consent.

28/02/2025

The United States is now a huge threat to Western countries, writes Bernard Keane, with Donald Trump seeking to impose his MAGA policies on the rest of the world.

Donald Trump 2.0 is a very different beast. What are our leaders going to do about it?

27/02/2025

Opinion | "Of all the panicked silencing measures executed by Australian institutions in defence of Israel over the past year, this is the worst. Yet." Michael Bradley on University Australia's definition of antisemitism.

Of all the panicked silencing measures executed by Australian institutions in defence of Israel over the past year, this is the worst. Yet.

27/02/2025

Qantas and Virgin will continue to do as they please in the domestic market, underpinning the Limping Roo’s profits and executive bonuses for the foreseeable future.

Qantas is raking in massive profits. But don't expect that to redound to the benefit of its employees — or its passengers.

27/02/2025

Opinion | There's nothing to see in the stories about Peter Dutton's property portfolio. Well, nothing to see except Labor desperation, writes Bernard Keane.

Labor trying to invent a scandal about Peter Dutton's property investments is a pathetic testimony to how ineffective the party has been at calling out his many, actual flaws.

27/02/2025

Dirt units are in the spotlight after a big week of mudslinging in Parliament, and UK PM Keir Starmer has met with Donald Trump.

27/02/2025

While the Coalition was happy to slam the proposal for being “rushed”, its communications spokesperson declined to comment on what could be a much bigger, Elon Musk-shaped problem...

The Coalition has slammed the government's proposal for solving mobile blackspots as 'rushed'. But will it go so far as to block it?