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The Snoop: Albo has a new adversary, trying (and failing) to find Sky News, and more
1+ hour, 3+ min ago (141+ words) Get unlimited access to Crikey. Hannah Ferguson, who runs independent news site Cheek Media, is changing her well-documented political aspirations from the upper house to the lower house, now aiming to run for the staunchly Labor inner-west Sydney seat of…...
A arts space in Sydney was axed due to an archaic 1848 law. But what does 'offensive trade' really mean?
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (176+ words) Get unlimited access to Crikey. The Divine Playhouse, a queer arts space housed in a de-sanctified church in Sydney, has been given the boot for engaging in “offensive trade”. The brainchild of the Heaps Gay collective and its founder Kat…...
Defence is now more wasteful, secretive than during Coalition era
1+ hour, 21+ min ago (170+ words) Defence is now more wasteful — and secretive — than during the Coalition era Crikey Congratulations! Your registration was successful. Welcome to our Community! We are sorry to see you go We would like to hear your feedback If you like this…...
Meet the man enforcing One Nation's new regime of secrecy and control
1+ hour, 55+ min ago (150+ words) Get unlimited access to Crikey. One Nation claims almost 150 branches and a membership somewhere between 60,000 and 70,000, which would make it the largest of any Australian political party. Its end-of-financial-year “Fire the Liar” fundraiser has now raised over $5 million from some…...
Washington's double standard is arming a nuclear race in the Middle East
3+ hour, 24+ min ago (120+ words) Get unlimited access to Crikey. The United States and Saudi Arabia announced last week that they had signed a nuclear cooperation agreement that would allow the Gulf kingdom to develop a civilian nuclear program while providing “great access for American…...
Jacinta Allan told she has lost MPs' support as leadership challenge looms
5+ hour, 25+ min ago (126+ words) Get unlimited access to Crikey. Victorian Labor might have a new leader tomorrow, just four months before the state’s election. There has been an enormous amount of speculation over the weekend about the future of Premier Jacinta Allan, and overnight…...
If Labor wants to sock it to One Nation, introduce a gas tax. Ignoring it isn’t brave — it’s stupid
3+ day, 46+ min ago (169+ words) Get unlimited access to Crikey. In another case of “disappointed but not surprised”, hopes of a gas tax being enshrined in Labor’s platform were dashed at the party’s national conference on Thursday, where some had hoped to turn a vague…...
Modi packed a Melbourne stadium. Days later, India’s ‘cockroaches’ filled the streets
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (144+ words) Get unlimited access to Crikey. Eleven days before Indian police beat students with batons outside parliament in Delhi, Narendra Modi stood inside Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium and asked more than 20,000 Indian Australians whether they felt proud of India’s military strikes on…...
Like it or not, this is Nolan's Odyssey, not Homer's
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (188+ words) Get unlimited access to Crikey. Christopher Nolan is a filmmaker preoccupied with dilating and fracturing time, with creating puzzles and labyrinths and populating them with doubles, projections and unreliable narrators. His films frequently centre on men — they are always men…...
Master Barnaby, after all I've done for you...
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (140+ words) Master Barnaby, after all I’ve done for you… Crikey Congratulations! Your registration was successful. Welcome to our Community! We are sorry to see you go We would like to hear your feedback If you like this article, share it with…...