George Pell convicted, Scott Morrison's facile climate change response, the quiet dismay of ParentsNext
MARCH 2, 2019
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More or less every other news story this week, for better or worse, was eclipsed by the revelations (known for months, but only just legal to report) regarding Cardinal George Pell. 

The inevitable avalanche of coverage that followed — during which the right and left appeared to swap their traditional views on institutions like the judiciary — drowned out many worthy issues; from the quiet dismay of the ParentsNext Senate hearing, to Scott Morrison’s latest facile attempt at a climate policy. 

As ever, let us know what you think by emailing boss@crikey.com.au.

Have a great weekend,

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran
Managing Editor

 

George Pell Convicted

On Pell and the dangers of celebrating the justice system

GUY RUNDLE 4 minute read

There’s a real danger in conceding the idea that an arm of the state establishes what did and didn’t actually happen.

The story of how George Pell was convicted of child sex abuse

CHARLIE LEWIS 4 minute read

Australia's most senior Catholic is going to jail. Here's how we got here.

The road to anarchy: conservatives’ retrial of Pell is dangerous beyond reasonable doubt 

MICHAEL BRADLEY 4 minute read

The refusal to accept Pell’s conviction is not merely a reactionary whinge; it is dangerous.

Taxonomy of takes: how the media is covering the George Pell verdict

EMILY WATKINS 2 minute read

Australian media went into meltdown following the conviction of Cardinal George Pell.

Getting a fair trial in an era of media saturation

GREG BARNS 4 minute read

In cases like George Pell's, where media coverage has the potential to impact outcome, the practice of judge-only trials needs to be considered.

 
It’s time for progressives to move on from Paul Keating

JEREMY POXON 4 minute read

The nostalgia makes sense; we're looking to escape our wretched political moment. But nostalgia seriously distorts our perception of history.

Morrison’s ‘soil magic’ fund transformed to a fully-fledged pork barrel

BERNARD KEANE 3 minute read

The Emissions Reduction Fund was used by Tony Abbott as a scam to channel pork to Coalition supporters while pretending it would address climate change. Now Scott Morrison faces the same problem, so he's doing the same thing.

In search of sponsors, Melbourne Press Club turns to the banks

EMILY WATKINS 5 minute read

The previous sponsor of the young journalist of the year award has been dumped, as the press club looks around for an upgrade.

If the answer’s Ita, what on earth is the question at the ABC?

BERNARD KEANE 3 minute read

Ita Buttrose would be an ideal ABC chair for a government that would prefer people not to worry about its attacks on the ABC. But her capacity to provide the broadcaster with the strategic leadership it needs isn't clear at all.

The virtue of shellfishness
Tackling the silly social constructionism of the rising knowledge classes/cultural left — the idea that there is no human nature, or relatively deeply embodied sex-gender nature — has [Jordan Peterson] go to that old standby of simplistic animal studies. Thus alpha-beta hierarchies among lobsters — sea-insect automatons who happen to share one brain chemical with us (seretonin) — are taken as a useful guide to the management of social life by language-using, enculturated humans, whose capacity for meaning-making is what makes recourse to animal existence impossible as an answer to the human condition. — Guy Rundle

Jordan Peterson is the very instant gratification he warns against.

ParentsNext isn’t getting the attention it deserves

CHARLIE LEWIS 4 minute read

Crikey had a front-row seat at this week's Senate inquiry into the widely criticised pre-employment program. Noticeably, there were a few seats spare...

EXCLUSIVE sneak peek at Ita Buttrose’s revamped ABC line-up

KARA SCHLEGL 3 minute read

Ita plans, inter alia, to replace all existing weekend programming with Midsomer Murders.

Debate over taxpayer-funded political ads masks a bigger problem

WILLIAM SUMMERS 4 minute read

The government has quietly removed the ban on MPs and senators using office budgets to pay for TV and radio ads. Let's be clear: this is not the norm.

Blueprint for disaster: what’s next for Nine’s regional papers?

JOSHUA MARTIN 4 minute read

Closures and consolidations of local newspapers in the US have had a ruinous effect on the local communities they serve. Is this what we'll see in Australia?

‘Psychologically scarred’: Age crime reporter wins $180,000 for workplace trauma

EMILY WATKINS 5 minute read

The win by a former crime reporter is the first successful action of its kind in the world.

If the Herald Sun’s Serena Williams cartoon doesn’t breach standards, what does?

EMILY WATKINS 3 minute read

Despite complaints, Mark Knight's controversial cartoon was not found to have breached press standards. And the verdict is not unusual.

Learn the lessons of the Darling before we make similar mistakes in the Top End

AVA WILMORE 3 minute read

With Australian rivers drying up, we need to take a look at the lessons of the past to try and avoid the same mistakes in the future.

Can NSW Labor leader Michael Daley beat the ‘dirt unit’?

KISHOR NAPIER-RAMAN 4 minute read

Will the cash splashes, attack ads, and hit pieces trawling through Michael Daley's past disrupt Labor's pre-election momentum?

Fate of the economy lies in the hands of NSW voters

BERNARD KEANE 3 minute read

Voters in other states should cross their fingers and hope that Gladys Berejiklian's NSW Liberal Party is returned to government for the sake of the national economy.

It used to be that fraud was a bad thing. But apparently it’s not so clear anymore. Now, it thrives under a culture of “fake it ’til you make it”. This is a skill set – a culture – and a highly coveted one at that. Just type, “fake it ’til you make it: into LinkedIn, and you’ll find there isn’t enough room on the page for all the profiles that pop up. People might as well write, “for hire: consummate obfuscator who worships confidence over competence”. — Andrea Maltman Rivera

Corporate fraud is having a moment in popular culture. Why is it so pervasive and what can be done about it?

With friends like these: the Coalition’s superannuation fail

BERNARD KEANE 3 minute read

New data on superannuation fund assets shows just how spectacular a failure the government's superannuation agenda has been.

A love letter to Invercargill and cities in decline

GUY RUNDLE 5 minute read

There is a strange pleasure in visiting places like Invercargill, forlorn cities stuck decades in the past. But nothing can stay unchanged forever.

 
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