Crikey

Crikey is an Australian digital publication that includes a website and an email newsletter for its subscribers. Mark Latham, a former leader of the Federal Opposition, referred to it as the "most popular website in Parliament House" in his book, The Latham Diaries. As of 2014, Crikey boasted approximately 17,000 paying subscribers.

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Theatre of the absurd: Labor and Liberals on a unity ticket on every key issue — and guess who benefits

2 days ago | crikey.com.au | Bernard Keane

If you change the government, you change the country, Paul Keating famously said. But how much change would there be on May 3 if there’s a change of government? On every major issue — both the big policy challenges facing the country, and the issues the parties insist are the really important ones — Labor and the Coalition are on a unity ticket, with only some trivial details over implementation separating them.
America's new golden age turns to tinfoil as investors run to the exit amid Trump chaos

1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Bernard Keane

The new American golden age is going swimmingly: investors are abandoning the United States at an increasing pace as Mad King Donald wreaks havoc on the nation’s economy. One of the few remaining adults in the room in US economic policymaking, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, laid it out on Wednesday in a speech in Chicago: The data in hand so far suggest that growth has slowed in the first quarter from last year’s solid pace.
Russia-Indo debacle reveals Australia is incompetent and racist

1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Bernard Keane

According to Peter Dutton, the government not knowing about a Russian request to Indonesia to station military aircraft in Papua was a “catastrophic failure”.
Crikey makes a corflute

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

Ah Christ, I’ve just gotten the corflute back from the printers and look at this bullshit:First, why are you calling attention to the authorisation with that damn magnifying glass? I made the font size small for a REASON. Maybe I could cover it with some tape and redo it? And if I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: gimme some options.
Russia has had military influence in Asia for decades. Why is it a surprise it wants more?

1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Michael Sainsbury

The biggest surprise about the news that Russia may have been trying to base aircraft in Indonesia was that it was a surprise at all. Russia has long been trying to position itself as influential in South-East Asia alongside China and the US, and has deep ties in South Asia with one of Australia’s key regional allies, India, along with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Press Council waves through News Corp, a candidate too much even for Family First, and Barclay's back

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

Passing gas: The long arm of the Australian Press Council and its wrath has been exercised once again, with the watchdog cracking down on News Corp’s sponsored pro-gas front pages from December last year. Hang on, we’re getting a note…No, they didn’t.
Inside the three-horse, two-independent fight in Calare where preferences are everything

1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Rachel Withers

Like many community independents, Kate Hook had little desire to become an MP. The renewables advocate, who helped found “Voices of Calare”, says she only agreed to run in the last election after trying to tap others on the shoulder, but finding the role repeatedly “bouncing back” to her. So when sitting MP Andrew Gee quit the Nationals in late 2022, following the party’s decision to oppose the Voice referendum, it seemed Hook was — ahem — off the hook.
Dutton and Albanese dodge difficult questions in second leaders debate

1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Richard James

DUTTON ON TRUMP: I DON’T EVEN KNOW HIMWe’ve got 16 days until the election, five days till early voting begins, one day till the Easter weekend, and a leaders debate to dissect, so grab a coffee and let’s get going. The ABC hosted the second debate between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Coalition leader Peter Dutton last night, and it’s probably fair to say it was the latter who provided more of the headline-grabbing moments, but not for the reasons he would have hoped.
The RBA board hangs a lampshade: Please pretend there's a chance we won't cut rates in May

1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Bernard Keane

Memo to the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy board: publicly telling people not to say something is reliably one of the best ways to draw attention to what you don’t want said. The minutes of the board’s meeting on March 31-April 1 contained one of the more bizarre statements you’ll likely see from the Reserve Bank.
Who's offering more? Struggling renters are invisible this election

1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Peter Mares

Looking at the major parties’ housing announcements, you could conclude that renters don’t vote. Instead, both sides are pitching hard to aspiring first-home buyers, telling them that a vote for Labor or the Coalition will pull the great Australian dream back within reach so they can start paying off their own mortgage instead of someone else’s.