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crikey.com.au — 1+ day, 53+ min ago
Klein's Doppelganger depicts how the world can slip past you, but fails to understand why
crikey.com.au...Even though Canadian writer Naomi Klein’s new book Doppelganger is overwhelmingly concerned with the great changes wreaked by the digital and online... ...In the time of COVID, while truckers in Canada were staging city blockades, Klein, the agenda-setting author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, overhears... ...They"re remarks by the other Naomi, Naomi Wolf, now famous as either a fearsome critic or a deranged conspiratorialist of the “deep state” -- a place... ...He is also an associate editor at Arena Quarterly and contributes to a variety of publications in Australia and the United Kingdom....
crikey.com.au — 22+ hour, 57+ min ago
Shot through the art: How COVID policy jeopardised Australian culture
crikey.com.au...The COVID inquiry must ensure that disruptions to Australian art cannot occur again.... ...With an arts leadership career spanning two decades, Anatolitis is Hon A/Prof at RMIT School of Art, a member of the National Gallery of Australia's... ...Esther Anatolitis is editor of Meanjin and one of Australia’s leading advocates for arts and culture....
crikey.com.au — 22+ hour, 23+ min ago
Canberra in the dark over corporate influence on politics
crikey.com.au...director Bill Browne told Crikey. ... ...Anton Nilsson is Crikey's federal political reporter.... ...Sweden, Australia and the United States.... ...He previously covered NSW Parliament for NCA NewsWire, and before that, worked for Sweden's Expressen newspaper as well as other publications in...
crikey.com.au — 22+ hour, 42+ min ago
Canberra in the dark over corporate influence on politics
crikey.com.au...director Bill Browne told Crikey. ... ...Anton Nilsson is Crikey's federal political reporter.... ...Sweden, Australia and the United States.... ...He previously covered NSW Parliament for NCA NewsWire, and before that, worked for Sweden's Expressen newspaper as well as other publications in...
crikey.com.au — 23+ hour, 5+ min ago
From Pezzullo to PwC, people really like failing their own very public standards
crikey.com.au...Senator Bridget McKenzie told Kitchen Cabinet this week of her loneliness after having resigned from her ministry back in 2020 following the “sport... ...substance of the scandal, host Annabel Crabb noted it was a resignation “on a point of principle”.... ...September 2023: Starting with McKenzie herself, the senator, speaking on Today, criticises Qantas chief executive Vanessa Hudson for her performance... ...at Senate estimates, which continued to display a “level of arrogance that our once-beloved national carrier shouldn't be displaying”:...
crikey.com.au — 23+ hour, 42+ min ago
Exposure of Pezzullo raises more questions about Collaery prosecution
crikey.com.au...ACT Supreme Court justice David Mossop must wear some embarrassment as well.... ...Mossop presided over the trial of Bernard Collaery, until the whole shameful prosecution was called off by the new attorney-general, Mark Dreyfus... ...But before that, Mossop was the judge who agreed with the attorney-general at the time, Christian Porter, that information relating to national security... ...Porter under the National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004....
crikey.com.au — 1+ day, 3+ min ago
Dan’s fans outweigh his foes — but they're not looking through rose-coloured glasses
crikey.com.au...Steven Meyer writes: Warts and all, and there are many warts, I’m a Dan fan (“Dan Andrews’ secret is that he understands Victoria, and his haters... ...What would it have been like if Dan Andrews hadn’t initiated an infrastructure build?... ...He is wise to step down now -- unlike John Howard who clung to power until the bitter end. Sue Goss writes: Love or hate “Dictator Dan”?... ...Away from all that hate that Andrews started and the horrors of Peta Credlin, Andrew Bolt and the nasty party ran with....
crikey.com.au — 1+ day ago
Uranium clean-up way over budget, running late... sounds like true nuclear power
crikey.com.au...Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane Peter Dutton and the radioactive gang of nuclear spruikers in the media seem to think that if only they call for a “... ...The company cleaning up the Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu says the project is running badly over budget and already late.... ...Business and Media Correspondent Glenn Dyer is Crikey's business and media correspondent.... ...Take, for example, the plight of Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) -- the almost wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto that operated the Ranger...
crikey.com.au — 1+ day ago
Clive Palmer tosses $2m into the Voice's No campaign
crikey.com.au...Miner Clive Palmer will use $2 million of his billions to back the No vote in the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum, and Home Affairs secretary... ...Mike Pezzullo gave British American Tobacco access to one of his department's senior customs officials.... ...Disgraced Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo connected British American Tobacco with one of his department's customs officials, Nine newspapers... ...Bronwyn “$5k-chopper-to-Liberal-fundraiser” Bishop says Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has what it takes to be a future prime minister of Australia, Sky...
crikey.com.au — 1+ day ago
The next Pezzullo will be harder to spot — and harder still to cut out
crikey.com.au...He has spent the past few decades swanning about Canberra as a cross between Malcolm Tucker, Frank Grimes and a police dog — an operator and enforcer... ...If there’s something that’s always been clear about Mike Pezzullo, it’s that he is a man of many convictions but very little courage.... ...Patrick Marlborough (they/them) is a writer and comedian from Fremantle, Western Australia.... ...Malcolm Turnbull and the likes let Pezzullo, just another dagger in Canberra’s coterie of cutthroats, convince them to do what their remaining morsels...