This week’s best stories

Saturday Feb 3

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This week in politics we compiled the most interesting revelations in the political donors list, explained which politicians (including Scott Morrison) benefit most from AUKUS, and listened to our pollies’ podcasts so you don’t have to.

Meanwhile we revealed what Nine staff are sending each other about their new executive, explained how Australian employers are ripping off migrant workers, and presented a case for why merely shaming the nation's neo-Nazis might not be super effective.

Plus has the Victorian Coalition abandoned the state's Indigenous peoples?

Thanks for your support and we hope you're having a great weekend.

Gina Rushton,
Editor

We listened to Australian politicians’ podcasts so you don’t have to

CHARLIE LEWIS and DAANYAL SAEED

Crikey listened to as many political podcasts as we could stomach to put together a consumer guide.

(Image: Gorkie)

Wait — Abbott’s 2014-15 budget wasn’t that bad, in one crucial respect

BERNARD KEANE

Everyone agrees the 2014 budget was a disaster, right? Here's why, economically, it was actually pretty sound.

Joe Hockey and Tony Abbott (Image: AAP/Dean Lewins)

Newcastle, don’t hold your breath for high-speed rail

BERNARD KEANE

The government is looking at building a fast train line from Newcastle to Sydney. But good luck finding a route that won't cost a fortune.

The French-designed high-speed TGV (Image: AP/TGV)

The ABC and Nine are showing their hand with their new appointments

CHRISTOPHER WARREN

Kim Williams chairing the national broadcaster and ex-News Corp editor Luke McIIveen running Nine flag big changes on the way.

Luke McIlveen and Kim Williams (Images: AAP/Zennie)

Scott Morrison joins growing list of politicians profiting from AUKUS

ANTON NILSSON

There's no hotter business opportunity in Canberra than AUKUS — and the ex-PM is the latest former government insider to jump on board.

Scott Morrison and Christopher Pyne (Images: AAP/Private Media)

Adobe Photoshop’s AI tools put women politicians in bikini bottoms and their male colleagues in suits

CAM WILSON

After Nine blamed an 'automation' error in Photoshop for producing an edited image of Georgie Purcell, I set out to find out what the software would do to other politicians.

Anthony Albanese and a blurred example of how Photoshop's generative AI tool expanded the same image (Image: Private Media)

The conversation we need to have about Australia’s neo-Nazis

MICHAEL BRADLEY

NSW Premier Chris Minns believes unmasking, naming and shaming Australia's neo-Nazis is the best deterrent. But is it?

Australian Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell (Image: AAP/Con Chronis)

On Treaty, the Victorian opposition should give Aboriginal people a chance

NERITA WAIGHT

By walking away from Treaty, Victoria's Coalition is saying it doesn't want a relationship with First Nations peoples.

Nerita Waight (Image: Supplied)

Everything we feared about the dire state of competition is true

BERNARD KEANE

New data shows large firms are gobbling up smaller firms without the competition regulator even being aware.

Assistant Minister for Competition Andrew Leigh (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)

New Nine boss once defended a man’s sexual relationship with a minor

DAANYAL SAEED

Crikey can reveal that Luke McIlveen, the new executive editor of the Nine metropolitan mastheads, once defended a man's sexual relationship with a minor in a column for The Daily Telegraph.

Luke McIlveen and excerpts from a 2004 Daily Telegraph article he wrote (Image: LinkedIn/The Daily Telegraph/Private Media)

Australia’s most toxic industries lead the annual political donor parade

BERNARD KEANE

Fossil fuel companies, the gambling lobby, the big four consulting firms and the banks all continue to dominate political donations.

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

Australia’s far right is using bizarre AI images to promote a white nationalist celebration

CAM WILSON

Dreamt up by a Proud Boy and pushed by neo-Nazis, online verification outlet RMIT CrossCheck has found that 'Australia Month' has found support from fringe politicians and media figures.

An AI-generated image of "Australia Month", complete with extra arms and floating hands (Supplied)

ICJ ruling shows the limits of our notions of genocide, rendering the mass killing in Gaza unnameable

GUY RUNDLE

The ICJ ruling proves the Eurocentric notion of genocide cannot adequately frame the colonialist form of mass killing occuring in Gaza now.

Tal Becker, legal counselor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, at the ICJ (Image: AAP/ANP/Remko de Waal)

Why do Australian employers keep ripping off migrant workers?

BERNARD KEANE

It's time for business to stop pretending award complexity causes wage theft. The data clearly shows it's greed and opportunism.

Business Council of Australia CEO Bran Black (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)

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