Daany Saeed

1 day ago | crikey.com.au | Daany Saeed

A notorious sports personality has been abusing members of the AFL media online for 18 months over the Israel-Gaza conflict, including calling a Jewish producer a “pretend Jew sellout”. Ralph Horowitz, one of the original producers of Nine’s The Footy Show in the early 1990s and now a self-employed horse racing blogger, posted more than 100 times about other media figures, including the likes of ABC sports reporter Marnie Vinall and AFL digital news producer Sophie Welsh.

2 days ago | crikey.com.au | Daany Saeed

It’s 1998 in Woolies world: Woolworths has announced it’s lowering the cost of “family favourites”, albeit, by its own admittance, not dramatically. But don’t worry, it’ll all add up, the supermarket, which made $1.7 billion in net profit last year, explained. Among the savings? 10c off baby wipes, 30c off camembert, and $1.50 off four chicken schnitzels. “Families spending $150 on their weekly shop could now save on average around $15 a week when buying Lower Shelf Price Products”.

1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Daany Saeed

Hitting a nerve?: Liberal group chats have been blowing up over Crikey’s story on the party’s “meme warfare” in the federal election campaign. “It’s going viral” among party faithful in NSW, one person texted. One insider sent a newly created meme, featuring pictures of state party director Chris Stone, Stone’s chief of staff Luke Nayna, a few of the animal-themed campaign posts the party published in the run-up to May 3, and the caption: “The How to Lose an Election Starter Pack”.

1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Daany Saeed

Jordan van den Lamb, the Victorian Socialists’ lead Senate candidate, says that running for Parliament isn’t his primary concern anyway. Speaking to Crikey outside Merri Creek Primary School in Fitzroy North an hour before the close of polls on election day, van den Lamb, also known by the online alias “purplepingers”, said parliamentary politics alone wasn’t how social movements were built.

1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Daany Saeed

On the morning of election day, Crikey landed an interview with Monique Ryan, just after she’d cast her vote at Glenferrie Primary in Hawthorn. As crowds snaked all the way down Glenferrie Road, and a gaggle of press waited to greet her, a bird pooed on her, a common superstitious sign of good luck. At the time of writing, Ryan needs all the luck she can get.