This week mainstream newspapers stood together in the Right To Know campaign. They blacked out their front pages and wrote about the ongoing assault on press freedom.

However, Bernard Keane has some good news for both the outlets and the Labor Party who’ve enthusiastically embraced the campaign: you could do a lot to push back against the encroaching police state if you stopped regularly collaborating with it.

Elsewhere, Ben Eltham looks at the growing resentment in the arts sector over policies that see the rich get richer and everyone else disappear; Guy Rundle delves into the bold plan needed to save rural Australia; and Justine Landis-Hanley checks in on one of Australia’s favourite outrage merchants, Miranda Devine, who is spending a year in New York.

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BERNARD KEANE 4 minute read

Tracey Spicer tried to take on the systemic sexual harassment of women and its lingering damage. For her sins, she's now damned by the left.

ROSS MUELLER 3 minute read

Scott Morrison has made a number of high-profile captain's calls — most of which appear to be his favourite celebs.

CHRISTOPHER WARREN 3 minute read

Facebook has effectively washed its hands of doing anything to fix the spread of fake news and hate speech ⁠— and Australian politics will continue to suffer the consequences.

ADAM SCHWAB 3 minute read

The Steller Property Group has gone bust, owing investors millions of dollars. How did it all go so badly?

MICHAEL BRADLEY 3 minute read

Police are now strip-searching children without proper protocols. NSW's police state mentality is absolutely out of control.

AMBER SCHULTZ 3 minute read

The alleged failings of Tracey Spicer's Me Too organisation were exposed last week by a BuzzFeedinvestigation. Crikey takes a look at how the story unfolded.

BEN ELTHAM 4 minute read

There's a growing resentment in the arts sector, and Australia’s cultural ministers just ensured it will continue growing for at least the next decade.

KISHOR NAPIER-RAMAN 4 minute read

Despite attempts to scrub him from history, the Christchurch shooter is being immortalised online in memes, manifestos and now video games.

CHRISTOPHER WARREN 3 minute read

The central role that magazines have enjoyed in Australia over the last century has been shattered by an information-rich, attention-poor world.

JUSTINE LANDIS-HANLEY 3 minute read

The News Corp columnist is adept at manufacturing outrage in Australia, but can she make a similar dent in the US punditosphere?