Charlie Lewis

3 days ago | crikey.com.au | Charlie Lewis

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken time out from his busy schedule of telling Richard Marles what to do and preparing to be fired to order the US Navy to strip the name of prominent gay rights activist and navy veteran Harvey Milk from a ship. Keep in mind this intervention has landed in June — traditionallyrecognised as Pride month since the late ’90s. Until now, at least.

4 days ago | crikey.com.au | Charlie Lewis

That was then, this is now: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and other senior Labor figures on Senator Fatima Payman after she defected from Labor to the crossbench in July 2024:Answering questions about her defection, Albanese said it was ‘very clear’ West Australians wanted to elect Labor to the Senate seat, rather than her specifically. ‘Fatima Payman received around about 1,600 votes in the WA [federal] election, the ALP box above the line received 511,000 votes,’ he said.

5 days ago | crikey.com.au | Charlie Lewis

I learned a new phrase in the days after April 13: trauma porn. Elizabeth Young, mother of victim Jade YoungElizabeth Young’s daughter Jade was one of the six people murdered at Bondi Junction shopping centre in April last year. In a statement to the inquest into the attack, in which 10 further people were stabbed but survived, Young expressed her horror at seeing images of a “lifeless body being worked on … cast throughout the world … including on a national channel’s evening news”.

1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Charlie Lewis

In the early days, Donald Trump’s second administration appeared to be a new and terrifying beast; targeted, organised, purposeful and swift in a way the first was not. But as its initial momentum started to dwindle, with its international appeal savagely rebuked, the administration ran up against the reef of governing and has been reverting to type.

1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Charlie Lewis

Vote for content: There are probably few members of Australia’s political class more familiar with the phrase “the internet is forever” than Tim Wilson. The former and probable current Goldstein MP has been busy being just so profoundly normal about the recount in his seat (requested by his opponent Zoe Daniel after she lost by just 260 votes).