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This week's best stories
WEB5 days ago · Bernard Keane sorts through Shorten's career and lands on an answer that might surprise you. A curious AI-vs-humans study was Crikey's most-read article this week. It turns out that when it comes ...
Royal commission into veteran suicide releases report
WEB2 days ago · Sep 10, 2024. 1. Commissioner Kaldas (Image: AAP) This article mentions suicide and sexual assault. After three years of investigations, the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide has ...
Mary P. Corcoran, Author at Crikey
WEB2 days ago · There are 1 articles by Mary P. Corcoran. Crikey is an independent Australian source for news, investigations, analysis and opinion focusing on politics, media, economics, health, international ...
When everything is 'racist', the worst offenders hide in plain sight
WEB2 days ago · Bernard Keane. Sep 10, 2024. Peter Dutton, John Howard, Pauline Hanson and Julia Gillard (Image: Private Media/Zennie) This article is an instalment in a new series, “Peter Dutton is racist ...
Deniability the path to support for racist ideas
WEB2 days ago · Polling on race: The secret is deniability. A voter’s reason for liking what Peter Dutton says may be racist or xenophobic, but they can easily defend that position in other ways without asking ...
Porn and propaganda: Just another week in US politics
WEB6 days ago · The allegation is that a pair of employees of Russia’s state-owned media company RT — Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva — used shell companies in the Middle East and Africa to ...
Russia propaganda talking points familiar to News Corp audiences
WEB2 days ago · But the biggest shock has been the news that in a flashback to the 1930s, “Russian gold” (about US$10 million) was used to astro-turf America’s leading right-wing YouTube network, Tenet ...
Data breaches: Why teen social media bans could impact all ages
WEB2 days ago · Trickery. If we accept that age-based social media bans are desirable, as Crikey ‘s Cam Wilson demonstrated, facial recognition software is vulnerable to being tricked. Wilson was able to ...
Racism and racism-adjacent politics: Why Dutton is different
WEB3 days ago · Both sides of politics have exploited racism over the past 50 years. But Peter Dutton is unusual among the recent generation of politicians in displaying overt racism. This article is an ...
Why ‘pronatalist’ politicians want voters to have more babies
WEB2 days ago · Two years ago, the Chinese government intensified its volte-face on the one-child policy, introducing pronatalist incentives and discouraging abortion in order to address a declining birth rate ...