Category: Crikey

Good morning, early birds. Western Australia will no longer be opening its borders on February 5, and Google says they’re trying to stop Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party from posting

A dip in the Australian Open’s viewers saw Ten’s ‘star-studded’ reality TV challenge creep up the ratings ladder. The post Ten’s Celebrity bounces back against Nine’s tennis coverage appeared first

Labor promises to approve all grants approved by the Australian Research Council’s peer review process. The post Coalition ‘hypocrisy’: bang on about academic freedom and then block research it doesn’t

With few cities willing or able to play, the organising body is offering the 2026 Commonwealth Games to Melbourne on a plate. The post The Games no one wants to

Novak Djokovic has left the country but the stink lingers. Read about that and more from Crikey’s bunker. The post Locco’s lob … Where the bloody hell are ya? …

In September the Morrison government boasted that home tests would soon be available. Now it’s scrambling to fix its bungling. The post Hoarding RATs: is Morrison lying about something

Australian anti-vax groups are taking a page from US extremist groups by targeting parents, school staff and local councils. The post Kids on the frontline: the anti-vax tactics against juvenile

It’s easy to mock Palmer’s run for the Senate. It’s far more important to examine what it says about the mood of the electorate. The post Why Clive Palmer’s Senate

The pharmaceutical industry’s reputation has taken a big hit, despite it providing life-saving vaccines in the pandemic. But does it care? The post The pandemic has made the world

You can make as many plans as you like, but COVID is like the annoying passenger beside you: it just doesn’t know when to stop being a pain. The

This week Crikey’s resident ethicist Dr Leslie Cannold tells a donor-conceived person there’s no right or wrong decision. The post Dear Leslie, I really don’t want to meet my sperm

Good morning, early birds. After a week of failed negotiations in the US all eyes are on Russia as it sizes up war with Ukraine, and Mark McGowan has rejected