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With inflation running rampant overseas, we’ve been somewhat lucky in Australia. But tough times still lay ahead. This week Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer took the RBA to task for not speaking frankly about a recession and insisting wages are going up when real incomes have been crippled.

Elsewhere, Charlie Lewis attended a vigil for the horrific death of Indigenous schoolboy Cassius Turvey, and asked in a poignant reflection whether it marks a turning point for honest self-reflection in the colony.

Plus Guy Rundle brought us the latest from Washington DC as the US midterms inch closer, Imogen Champagne took us through Elon Musk’s tumultuous Twitter takeover, and Madonna King delved into the robodebt fiasco.

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Fiscal fiasco
Inflation nation: why Lowe and the RBA need to start using the r-word
BERNARD KEANE and GLENN DYER

Australians need greater clarity from the Reserve Bank about the measures it is prepared to take to get inflation back down.

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What planet is Philip Lowe living on? Not the one Australian workers inhabit
BERNARD KEANE and GLENN DYER

Philip Lowe and the RBA are gaslighting Australian workers with their insistence wages are growing, when real incomes are being smashed.

 
Cassius Turvey’s death has touched the nation, but will anything change?
CHARLIE LEWIS

Is the more explicit language from media around the alleged murder of 15-year-old Indigenous boy Cassius Turvey a turning point?

A public march during a rally for Cassius Turvey in Perth (Image: AAP/Richard Wainwright)
 
With updated taglines, will gambling face the same fate as befell big tobacco? 
AMBER SCHULTZ

Restrictions on how cigarettes could be advertised curbed smoking in Australia. Will the same happen to gambling?

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And they’re off! Crikey’s short guide to the Victorian election
CHARLIE LEWIS

Dan Andrews' scandal-prone Labor government looks set to beat a dysfunctional opposition, but teals and Greens also have high hopes.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Liberal Leader Matthew Guy (Images: AAP)
 
Was the robodebt fiasco pure ideological bastardry?
MADONNA KING

The robodebt royal commission, now finally in motion, will prove to be a morality tale about how governments operate in the age of technology.

Scott Morrison and Stuart Robert (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)
 
7 tweets that map a very long few days in Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
IMOGEN CHAMPAGNE

What have you done, mate? In less than a week hate speech is already on the rise and celebs are heading for the door.

Elon Musk (Image: dpa-Zentralbild/ Patrick Pleul)
 
Midterms miasma
In a lone tavern, America’s ‘likely but undecided voters’ wax conspiratorial
GUY RUNDLE

The US midterms frenzy has descended on the nation like gathering storm clouds, and there's a roiling madness beneath it all.

Former US president Barack Obama at a Democratic rally in Phoenix (Image: AAP/AP/Alberto Mariani)
Deep in the heart of wonk-land, a place like no other in America
GUY RUNDLE

Want to know what the American elite understands about, well, America? Go no further than Washington DC, land of the think tanks.

 
‘Medicalise everything’: how progressives are implementing neoliberalism on health
BERNARD KEANE

Is it true individual choice makes no difference? Or is this just another means for capitalism to make us sick and sell us the cure?

Magda Szubanski (Image: ABC iView)
 
‘I don’t have a problem’: ruing his fate, Hillsong’s Brian Houston seeks to set the record straight
DAVID HARDAKER

The former global pastor of the megachurch took to social media to address 'gossip' about his fall from grace.

Former Hillsong global pastor Brian Houston (Image: Facebook)
 
What to make of XBB and BQ.1, the two new COVID-19 variants in town
JULIA BERGIN

'These variants are a nuisance, but they’re not killing people. At this stage, it’s behaving much better than BA1 and BA2.'

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More Labor MPs come clean on WA mining junket, but questions remain
ANTON NILSSON

Labor MPs were treated by the mining lobby to a three-day tour of WA last month, including sunset drinks with FIFO workers and a briefing on the Juukan Gorge destruction.

Zaneta Mascarenhas with Tracey Roberts (Image: Facebook/Zaneta Mascarenhas)
 
My client spoke her truth about Hawthorn — beyond that, she has no duty to the AFL
MICHAEL BRADLEY

'Why would I ask the protectors of the perpetrators who caused me all this trauma to then investigate the abuse?'

Hawthorn Hawks headquarters in Melbourne (Image: AAP/Joel Carrett)