MARCH 16, 2019

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As I write this on Friday afternoon, my newsfeed is half-filled with photos of students with heads held high, on strike for the climate and their future.

The other half of my newsfeed is filled with devastating images from the shooting unfolding in Christchurch, New Zealand, a city in lockdown, its citizens’ heads bowed in shock and grief.

What a stark example of the extremes that a news cycle can offer.

So much is still unknown about the shooting and Crikey will be waiting until we have more solid information before offering any analysis.

Our solidarity is with all the victims, their loved ones and the Muslim community after this hateful crime.

Sincerely,

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran
Managing Editor

Slow Burn

Winds of change leave climate denialists isolated

BERNARD KEANE 4 minute read

Changing political sentiment, and increasing business and investor hostility to fossil fuels, has left denialists isolated as climate action becomes a prerequisite for mainstream politics.

Fire and floods: the impacts of climate change in 2018

CHRIS WOODS 4 minute read

In 2018, we saw extreme weather events worldwide. And as it was the fourth hottest year on record, how does climate change fit into the picture?

Not waiting for Canberra: how powerful investors are taking on climate action

GEORGIA WILKINS 5 minute read

Shareholders are demanding real action on climate change, but how can they make businesses deliver?

How climate denialism was mainstreamed in Australia

CHRISTOPHER WARREN 3 minute read

There’s nothing inevitable about the alignment of the right with denialism.

A snapshot of News Corp’s loudest climate change denialists

EMILY WATKINS 3 minute read

How did it become the norm to ridicule scientists and media outlets that report on climate change?

The unreality of Pell’s sentencing

CHARLIE LEWIS 5 minute read

Inside the courtroom for the final day of Pell's historic trial.

Not kids anymore: climate students march with worldly passion

GUY RUNDLE 4 minute read

The right continue to infantilise school students who have opinions. It's a bizarre and flawed example of generational thinking.

How the campus free speech ‘crisis’ landed in Australia

JUSTINE LANDIS-HANLEY 5 minute read

Can a line be drawn between protecting free speech and protecting against false speech? This is the question of a new government review.

What we know so far about the woman stepping into Julie Bishop’s shoes

CHARLIE LEWIS 3 minute read

Celia Hammond is walking into one of the safest Coalition seats in the country. Will she win it?

Outbreak of the wage wars leaves Coalition and its apologists flat-footed

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So the government’s positions on wage stagnation in the last few days have been that it’s not an issue, that it’s an issue but things are getting better, hey isn’t it great because it keeps unemployment down, and Bill Shorten’s an idiot engaged in the politics of envy. Meantime, at the AFR — where the editor has described discussion about stagnant wages as “whingeing” — the policy continues to be to deny that there’s a problem at all and that if only we gave business tax cuts, wages growth would surge to a mighty 3.4%. — Bernard Keane

Wages growth has surged onto the election agenda and the Coalition and business are visibly at a loss about how to respond to Labor’s offensive.

Who’s who: the ‘faceless’ men and women of the NSW Liberal Party

KISHOR NAPIER-RAMAN 4 minute read

Crikey takes a look at the big players on the Liberal Party's NSW state executive.

Who’s who: the ‘faceless’ men and women of the NSW Labor Party

KISHOR NAPIER-RAMAN 4 minute read

Who are the heavies lurking behind the curtains at NSW Labor headquarters? Crikey takes a look.

Welcome to the new Milibandism

OSMOND CHIU 3 minute read

While Bill Shorten's campaign has echoes of Ed Miliband's ill-fated 2015 UK Labour platform, Shorten has a secret weapon: Scott Morrison.

Did George Brandis breach the Public Service Code of Conduct?

BERNARD KEANE 3 minute read

George Brandis's public begging to keep his job degrades the diplomatic corps and embarrasses Australia — but did it breach the code of conduct public servants must adhere to?

Alan Jones supporters speak up as he negotiates contract

EMILY WATKINS 2 minute read

"If there was no place for Jones in Sydney radio, the media would be much poorer for his absence," said one supporter.

Men-only clubs and football stadiums: why the little things are now dealbreakers

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This is the paradox of contemporary politics. Parties pay huge amounts to employ spin doctors, media consultants, and focus groups all of whom tell them that the public are increasingly focused on issues that the pollies themselves consider marginal, symbolic and scatty. Having spent all that money to find these things out, they continue to believe that the governance-economic narrative is the “real” one, for which they will be rewarded or punished. — Guy Rundle

There is something utterly delicious in watching the Gladys Berejiklian fan brigade trying to think their way through the disaster of Stadiumgate

Shopping for ScoMo? Morrison kills consumer sentiment in NSW.

GLENN DYER and BERNARD KEANE 3 minute read

Retail sales figures show NSW consumers shutting their wallets from August last year, when Scott Morrison became Prime Minister.

Brawling Nationals put the government’s denialism up in lights

BERNARD KEANE 3 minute read

The Nationals are now doing what the Liberals did last year — using climate policy as a weapon in their leadership battles. But at least they're honest about their climate denialism.

ABC news director lobbies for his managing director pick

EMILY WATKINS 4 minute read

ABC senior executive Gaven Morris has thrown his support behind David Anderson — and suggested a few areas in which the ABC could improve.