Sometimes, it’s hard to know where to start summarising the week in Crikey. I mean it’s all good, right? And there’s so much going on. I could point you to the stories which went off on our social feeds — the clear winner there was Kishor Napier-Raman’s tart and timely piece on what the Liberals used to say about a fibre-to-the-home NBN when it was a Labor idea — and what they are saying now. Yes, beauty and spin are both in the eye of the beholder.

Or, keeping to the what’s been popular theme, there’s the article by Margot Saville about JK Rowling’s alleged anti-trans book which appears to be nothing of the sort. Or Adam Schwab’s piece on hotel quarantine. Or Guy Rundle’s artful piece on what is and isn’t Orwellian. But because two of Crikey’s long suits are bursting spin and holding public officials to account, I’d recommend the series of articles by Georgia Wilkins, David Hardaker and Bernard Keane on the government’s new energy plans (and who stands to benefit), and Keane’s stories on various audit office reports about public service delivery. So much bloody wasted time, effort and tax-payers money.

Before I go, I’d like to put in a plug for Napier-Raman’s pointed piece on what’s being lost at Monash University as cutbacks bite (there will be more of that from other universities, no doubt) and an article which came out of the Crikey vault this week: Jim Malo’s piece about the lack of diversity in the Australia news media landscape. Apols, Jim, from the white male below.

KISHOR NAPIER-RAMAN 3 minute read

The Coalition has spent the past decade denigrating Kevin Rudd's plan for faster internet. Today, they're enacting it.

ADAM SCHWAB 3 minute read

Sick with COVID? Stay at home. Return to Australia and test negative? Go to a hotel. It doesn't make any sense.

BERNARD KEANE 3 minute read

The government's energy policy has been written by fossil fuel companies, to promote the scams of the fossil fuel companies, with taxpayers handing money to fossil fuel companies.

JIM MALO 3 minute read

The media is willingly pushing inflammatory headlines and tenuous science in an effort to discredit anti-racism protests. Will anybody stand up?

GEORGIA WILKINS 3 minute read

The PM's messaging is very carefully cobbled together, but experts say it comes dangerously close to misinformation.

MARGOT SAVILLE 4 minute read

It's fine to disagree with JK Rowling. But the abuse the author has received on social media is simply not acceptable.

BERNARD KEANE 4 minute read

When put together, the ANAO's last five years of audits reveal massive failures across the public service.

GEORGIA WILKINS 3 minute read

A cashed-up property developer with ties to the Coalition stands to win from the government’s much-lauded gas plan.

DAVID HARDAKER 4 minute read

The prime minister's words promoting fossil fuels are loaded with meaning — they just don't mean what they say.

GEORGIA WILKINS 3 minute read

When it comes to impacting Australia's climate wars, little can stand up to the fossil fuel industry's public spin.

BERNARD KEANE 4 minute read

An ANAO report has found Infrastructure Department officials were misleading and unethical when buying land that resulted in a 1000% windfall for a Coalition donor.

KISHOR NAPIER-RAMAN 2 minute read

Monash's reputation as a leading light in theatre and music is in jeopardy as a lack of funding forces job cuts.