Category: Crikey

Today in Side View: assassination and electoral politics; CCS sucks, literally and figuratively; our changing sonic world; and decoding shadows. The post Side View: The danger of being an MP

A senior NSW bureaucrat tells the NSW ICAC ‘it wasn’t necessarily a good use of funds’. The post Has Wagga ever staged the Olympics? No. So why did it need

Dominic Perrottet has made headway on some issues that will appeal to female voters, but his stance on abortion and same-sex marriage will not. The post Planned Perrottethood: how

Viewers are really over the boring formats of SAS Australia: Hell Week and Love Island Australia. You listening, programmers? The post These turkeys won’t make it to Christmas appeared

The LNP senator doesn’t need Australians to love him — in fact, he’s counting on the opposite. The post Matt Canavan’s mining cosplay and Twitter trolling are setting him up

From getting the Nats onside to getting needles out of strawberries, the PM doesn’t shy away from invoking national security to push a message — or deter attention. The post

Colin Powell was once a potential moderate Republican president. But his path was opposite to the one since taken by the Republican Party. The post A historical road not taken:

We can’t expect Ted Cruz to have a real idea about what’s going on in ‘Texas of the Pacific’ Australia, but maybe he should do a little research. Plus more

As the Biden administration and a new generation of US policymakers learn the hard lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan, the words of the former secretary of state ring true: ‘you

Politicians have far too much discretion in their use of taxpayers’ dollars, and that makes the system ripe for abuse. The post No shame, no accountability — Victorian Labor’s

Climate change’s promise of death and destruction is violence, so why shouldn’t its victims be violent in self-defence? The post Violent anti-vaxxers are wrong. But can their tactics hold any

For someone said to be one of the country’s best retail politicians, Joyce and his National Party have few achievements to brag about. The post Just what is the point