Charlie Lewis
Tips and Murmurs Editor at Crikey
Writer for Crikey. Spin Cycle on @3RRRFM. Music writing at https://t.co/fsc9nOFad6 Pop Music at the end of the World in Meanjin 83.3, out now.
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1 week ago |
crikey.com.au | Charlie Lewis
The Liberal Party has suffered back-to-back drubbings at the federal level, while opposition parties in Victoria and Western Australia endured wipeouts at three consecutive state election. Meanwhile Tasmanian Labor will have lost five times in a row if July goes badly for them. At the territory level, the Liberals haven’t held government in the Australian Capital Territory for just shy of a quarter of a century, while last year in the NT Labor was obliterated by the Country Liberal Party.
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1 week ago |
crikey.com.au | Charlie Lewis
It’s been observed elsewhere that US President Donald Trump’s rhetoric regarding the conflict between Israel and Iran has shifted suddenly from that of an observer to a participant.
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1 week ago |
crikey.com.au | Charlie Lewis
The very shirt off her back: The NSW Nationals held their annual conference over the weekend, where they unsurprisingly voted to abandon Australia’s commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. The party, a sectional interest within a sectional interest, has never strayed far from the policy priorities of mining magnate Gina Rinehart, a woman who insists on jamming money into the Coalition’s coffers no matter how embarrassing the circumstances.
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1 week ago |
crikey.com.au | Charlie Lewis
Iran and Israel have spent the past three days trading missile strikes after Israel attacked some of Iran’s key nuclear facilities and assassinated Iranian leadership figures and nuclear scientists. Up to 400 Iranians have been killed, as have at least 10 Israelis. Iran’s purported desire or ability to develop nuclear weapons has been a source of tension in the region for decades, so Crikey has put together an abridged history.
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2 weeks ago |
crikey.com.au | Charlie Lewis
Does Donald Trump’s second administration represent part of a global slide into fascism? The events of the past week indicate that the question, which has sat in the shadow of Trump’s politics since before he was first elected, is not likely to go away. Crikey has long been trying to keep track of the Trump government’s concrete actions (rather than rhetorical flourishes), which happen to be similar to those of regimes generally considered to be fascist. This is our third instalment.
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