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Crikey lives within the news cycle. At the same time, we also seek to break out of it with original reporting on things other publications tend to ignore. This week offered good examples of both. We’ve published different perspectives on the Israel-Palestine conflict, dug deep into the vaccine rollout, and even brought a new twist to the debate about the existence of UFOs. But the big headlines haven’t distracted us from other topics. Case in point, David Hardaker published his two-part series on the Hillsong mega-church, while conflicts-of-interest reporter Georgia Wilkins did what she always does: followed the money. |
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Israel is a one-state colonising power. The two-state solution is a dangerous fantasy
Once the 'settlement' program began in the 1980s, any prospect of peace between the Jews and the Arabs evaporated. |
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Kurri Kurri conflicts: new gas plant is a field day for party donors
A $600 million subsidy for a gas plant in Kurri Kurri makes no commercial sense for the taxpayer, but there are plenty of windfalls for Liberal Party donors. |
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I spy with my little eye: another blow to privacy in Australia
A proposed law would make it quicker and easier for a network of nations to exchange surveillance data on people within their countries. |
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From UFO to UAP: how flying saucers became legitimate
UFOs — or UAP as they are now called — are suddenly legit, and everyone from Barack Obama down is talking about them. Welcome to the conspiracy-rich world of UFOlogy. |
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Right with God |
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A sham? Morrison’s secretive national cabinet comes under legal blowtorch
Senator Rex Patrick is challenging in court the idea that national cabinet and the COVID commission are entitled to cabinet confidentiality. |
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Trial of an ‘innocent man’: how the ABC trapped a powerful figure — and got away with it
The court found the CEO of Racing NSW was made to appear 'naive, perhaps even foolish', but he had not been defamed. |
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Meet the conspiracy-theory-touting, far-right YouTubers helping Craig Kelly
The former Liberal MP, trapped in political limbo by his online quackery, is getting help from digitally savvy fringe-dwellers with equally loony ideas. |
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The jab |
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Business fails to make its case on borders as government, community comfortable with hermit Oz
Australian business is so obsessed with profits that it thinks 'some people may die' is a good argument for opening our borders. |
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Jane “everywhere” Halton back in Canberra as an adviser to the prime minister’s department
The former top public servant-turned-company director is being paid $98,000 to advise the government from May 6 to the end of the year. |
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$3b-plus pumped into fossil fuels this year. Is that ‘adapting to climate change’?
The Morrison government wasting $600 million on another fossil-fuel powered generator shows just how out of touch it is on climate. |
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