The public scrutiny of misinformation, disinformation and lies has become politicised to the point of farce — and we're all dumber for it.

One of the better ways to deter foreign spies from recruiting MPs would be to require the latter to publish details of all their meetings.

Australia has set aside billions of dollars to fund US submarine building. But the same shipyards and staff building the AUKUS subs are also building nuclear-armed boats.

Democracy is preventing economic reform, argues the Business Council, so let's have less of it and allow unelected officials to run things.

Cultural and heritage organisations are under fire from interest groups amid the Israel-Gaza war. Crikey has obtained documents that go inside the Australian Museum's PR crisis.

Crikey pores over the figures in the new report from the federal government's aged care taskforce.

When you think aged care you probably think nursing homes. But home care is increasingly dominating how we care for seniors.

What do you do when you've got more money than you can ever hope to spend? Crikey caught up with one of the few Australians who can answer that question.

The government ought to go beyond the embattled news media bargaining code and contribute more public funding for what should be, at heart, a public good.

EXCLUSIVE: The case of a corrupt ex-ATO employee, concluded earlier this week, was the third time a NACC probe has led to a conviction.

This week in Media Briefs: News Corp's Olympics coverage looks awfully one-note, and executives go head to head over artificial intelligence.

What's a newcomer to do faced with a confusing electoral system and a small, highly concentrated local media presence?

Public schools are being decimated by the private industry, which in Australia has entrenched class segregation and become an aspirational norm.