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This week Crikey announced its partnership with journalists at Indigenous Community Television to bring you stories from community across the Northern Territory and push local issues into the national news agenda.

Our NT correspondent Julia Bergin and Western Arrarnta translator and reporter Damien Williams brought you an exclusive look inside a landmark push for national education reform from First Nations educators and described what a school day would look like under such a system.

Elsewhere this week Bernard Keane wrote that Dan Andrews has saved Victoria from his own stupidity by cancelling the Commonwealth Games, Cam Wilson revealed the Australian Federal Police has suspended the use of a controversial surveillance platform, and John Buckley reported on criticism of Labor for not changing truth in political advertising laws before the Voice to Parliament pamphlets ended up in your letterbox.

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Crikey partners with ICTV to go beyond the Yes-No Voice sound bites
JULIA BERGIN and DAMIEN WILLIAMS

Crikey is joining forces with local Indigenous media in the Northern Territory to bridge politics (Crikey) and community (ICTV).

Crikey's Julia Bergin and ICTV's Damien Williams (Image: Supplied)
 
‘Entire system change’: landmark moment in the fight for First Nations education
JULIA BERGIN and DAMIEN WILLIAMS

Indigenous Australians want their own system of education, one with language, culture and Country — not classrooms — at its core.

Utyerre Apanpe 2023 attendees on country at N'Dhala Gorge with Traditional Owner and Elder Therese Ryder (Image: Children's Ground)
 
A First Nations school day: less classroom, more language, culture and Country
JULIA BERGIN and DAMIEN WILLIAMS

A student in a Western system of education needs a classroom. A teacher needs a certificate. A First Nations model is very different.

Aunty Joy Armstrong (Image: Children's Ground)
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A No vote will be Australia’s Trump moment
BERNARD KEANE

There are plenty of parallels between those campaigning against the Voice to Parliament and those who got behind Donald Trump in 2016 — including the damage they could do should they prove victorious.

(Image: Gorkie/Private Media)
 
AFP suspends use of controversial surveillance tech found in Woolworths, Bunnings
CAM WILSON

The halt comes after a Crikey investigation revealed more than 100 police staff used Auror without considering privacy and security effects.

Surveillance cameras and a redacted email (Image: Private Media, Supplied)
 
Working from home: employers love flexibility… except when it benefits workers
BERNARD KEANE

Like working from home? Employers and commercial property owners hate it, despite decades of calls for more 'flexibility' in the workplace.

(Image: Gorkie/Private Media)
 
European nightmare burns up the lie behind ‘the cost of climate action’
BERNARD KEANE

Europe's drought and heatwave will cause inflation and widespread deaths, as El Niño returns to push global temperatures even higher. This is what 'business as usual' looks like.

A shepherd watches a burning wheat field in the province of Zamora, Spain (Image: REUTERS/Isabel Infantes)
 
Humanity’s headstone is built, only its epitaph awaits 
MAEVE MCGREGOR

As the arc of civilisation careens past its inflection point, the world has ceased speaking of climate change in future tense.

Recent bushfires in British Columbia, a tourist at Death Valley National Park, and the Southern Ocean (Images: AAP)
 
The Games’ up: Dan Andrews rescues Victoria from his own stupidity
BERNARD KEANE

Daniel Andrews found an innovative way to waste taxpayer money: combine the Commonwealth Games with pork-barrelling. It proved so expensive even he had to abandon it.

Daniel Andrews (Image: AAP/James Ross)
 
Here’s how to make American mega-trucks unwelcome Down Under
BENJAMIN CLARK

Sales of US-style mega-trucks are booming in Australia despite being 'more likely to be hauling a huge ego than a large load'.

A Chevrolet pick-up truck at the Chicago Auto Show (Image: EPA/Tannen Maury)
 
Won’t somebody think of the children? Qld LNP votes no to consent education
KATRINA MARSON

Kids learning about respectful relationships at school boosts their well-being as well as their academic performance. So why has the LNP voted against it?

(Image: AAP/Paul Miller)
 
Children’s sex ed book pulled from shelves after anti-LGBTQIA+ conspiracy theorists’ campaign
CAM WILSON

Conspiracy groups had called for a boycott for weeks before mainstream media picked up video of an anti-vaccine podcast rant about the book.

A video from an anti-vaccine podcaster's rant about sex education book 'Welcome to Sex' (Image: Supplied)
 
‘Masses of misinformation’: Turnbull on how the AEC as ‘postbox’ worked last time
CHARLIE LEWIS

The AEC has never had a role in fact-checking claims made during a referendum. It's not its job to ensure accuracy.

Malcolm Turnbull campaigns for the Yes vote for the republic referendum in 1999 (Image: AP/Rob Griffith)
 
As politics becomes religion, the right invents a new way to avoid accountability
MAEVE MCGREGOR

After the robodebt royal commission, some voices on the right are trying to discredit Labor’s inquiries into Coalition scandals.

A silhouette of former prime minister Scott Morrison (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)
 
Referendum pamphlets a ‘missed opportunity’ for truth in political advertising laws, critics say
JOHN BUCKLEY

Australian laws only prohibit misinformation related to the running of elections and referendums — not the political messaging that engulfs them.

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)
 
Junk mail: taxpayer-funded lies about Indigenous peoples to go to every home
BERNARD KEANE

The No campaign section of the pamphlet is not merely incoherent and absurd; it recycles the offensive, racist lie of terra nullius.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)
 
Monarchists’ hot take on the games, News Corp’s crappy merch, and the ADF’s hilarious blunder!
CHARLIE LEWIS

The monarchists know why dictator Dan *really* cancelled the games. Read all about it, plus plenty more tips and murmurs from the Crikey bunker.

Daniel Andrews (Image: AAP/James Ross)