Plus: freeing up Crikey's Voice coverage.
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“Looking back on all the coverage from 12 years ago, I am struck by how readily the media played into a predator's hands.” This week, Grace Tame wrote a searing essay for Crikey that dove deep into how the media, especially the Murdoch press, reported her sexual abuse as a teenager.

Crikey also tore down the paywall to provide access to a curated selection of Indigenous Voice to Parliament coverage, and provided perspectives on the upcoming referendum by Indigenous writers and activists such as Tarneen Onus Williams and Roxanne Moore.

Elsewhere Charlie Lewis delved into William Cooper, John Batman and a single bend in the Maribyrnong river, Christopher Warren said, yes, the media could use a reporter dedicated solely to Taylor Swift, and Michael Sainsbury reported on the ongoing bullying Qantas levelled against its own staff.

Hope you’re having a great weekend,
Jack Callil Jack Callil,
Opinion editor
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‘The older I get, the younger I was’: What’s it like to be the subject of News Corp coverage? 
GRACE TAME

I will always be exploitation material in the eyes of the Murdoch press, but when I first clashed with them, I was an anonymous child in the raw stages of trauma.

(Image: Zennie/Private Media)
 
Insider: Tell us what you still need to know about the Voice to Parliament
SOPHIE BLACK

Today Crikey is bringing a curated selection of Voice referendum coverage out from behind the paywall, free to read.

CRIKEY'S JULIA BERGIN AND ICTV'S DAMIEN WILLIAMS (IMAGE: Zennie/Private Media)
 
‘Very much up in the air’: US Congress chaos could scuttle AUKUS deal
ANTON NILSSON

The turmoil after the sacking of house speaker Kevin McCarthy raises the prospect that AUKUS could get 'lost', an expert says.

A Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (Image: AAP/Richard Wainwright)
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William Cooper, John Batman and a single bend in the Maribyrnong
CHARLIE LEWIS

A brief history of a river, and two men who sought to shape its banks.

William Cooper and John Batman (Images: Wikimedia Commons)
 
Reserve Bank stubbornly holds interest rates steady, to the dismay of journalists
BERNARD KEANE and GLENN DYER

The RBA didn't change interest rates yesterday — but it might change them in the future, so let's talk about that instead!

Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)
 
Dutton’s debacle: How the faux-tough immigration cops lost control of our borders
BERNARD KEANE

Peter Dutton presided over a department that enabled organised crime, sex traffickers and illegal immigrants to treat our borders as porous.

Peter Dutton, Clare O'Neil, Mike Pezzullo (Images: AAP)
 
Republicans destroy a leader as America becomes a banana-split republic
GUY RUNDLE

The gap between the American dream and its sad reality just keeps growing, damning both Republicans and Democrats, and the public.

Former US president Donald Trump (Image: Sipa USA/Michael Nigro)
 
Do the media need a Taylor Swift reporter? A timely question for sneering old media
CHRISTOPHER WARREN

USA Today is hiring Tay-Tay and Beyoncé reporters. Mainstream mastheads are mystified but young fans are asking why'd it take so long?

Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards last month (Image: AP/Charles Sykes)
 
The Voice debate is an act of violence. But I’m still voting Yes
TARNEEN ONUS WILLIAMS

Only Indigenous peoples should be voting on a matter like the Voice to Parliament. But we can’t — and therein lies a dangerous tension.

Tarneen Onus Williams (Image: Supplied)
 
Silencing support for the Voice is just so John Howard, so naff
MAEVE MCGREGOR

The embarrassing rise of naffness shows how the AFL miscalculated on the Voice and squandered its leadership opportunity.

Adam Goodes and Jess Hitchcock's Yes dress from the AFL Grand Final (Images: AAP/Private Media)
 
Yesterday, I was a No. Today, I’m a Yes. Here’s why
ROXANNE MOORE

I feel compromised to write Yes — I’ll be voting with Rio Tinto. But I’m reluctantly writing Yes because I believe we can build power for transformative change beyond the referendum.

Roxanne Moore (Image: Supplied)
 
Which bloke is going to replace Marise Payne?
CHARLIE LEWIS

Crikey runs a pencil over the exclusively male names of those vying to replace the former minister for women.

Dave Sharma (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)
 
No signs, no info, no idea it’s polling day — welcome to the Voice’s remote voter service
JULIA BERGIN and STEVE HODDER WATT

The AEC says it did 'many months' of community consultation to roll out remote voting. But no-one knew it was coming or that it was there.

An AEC official speaks to a volunteer about Yes signs in Yuelamu (Image: Julia Bergin/Private Media)
 
Elon Musk’s removal of headlines on X is going as you would expect
CHARLIE LEWIS

Elon Musk's recent decision to remove headlines from links posted on X has led to a lot of interesting 'news' circulating about the billionaire.

Elon Musk and a recent post on X (Images: X/AAP)
 
To stop the abuse of disabled people, we know what needs to change
EL GIBBS

The disability royal commission findings show we're faced with the same things we've always known about the treatment of disabled people.

Disability advocates welcome release of disability royal commission final report (Image: AAP/Jacob Shteyman)
 
‘Bullied and harassed’: Qantas pilots accuse management of intimidation over pay
MICHAEL SAINSBURY

Working harder for less money, pilots at Qantas' Perth-based subsidiary have long complained of being treated as third-class workers.

Qantas CEO Vanessa Hudson (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)