AUKUS, Trump, Woolies and toilet gags.
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This week we dissected the latest iteration of the January 26 culture war, revealed the intriguing online behaviour of a federal MP, and tracked the investors with billions of dollars in funds circling trade opportunities created by AUKUS.

Elsewhere our commentators flexed their fingers forecasting the big year ahead in housing policy, pondering Donald Trump's inextinguishable influence, and making a case for Aboriginal health staying in Aboriginal hands.

We hope you're having a marvellous weekend and we'll see you on Monday.
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Australia’s elites are souring on migration. But new data shows its benefits
BENJAMIN CLARK

The media has mostly welcomed the news that Labor is backpedalling on migration. Perhaps they should look at the data.

Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)
 
AI is producing ‘fake’ Indigenous art trained on real artists’ work without permission
CAM WILSON

One Indigenous artist said the process of using their art to train AI models that competes with them for work is a ‘very colonial mindset’.

Artificial intelligence-generated 'Indigenous art' images for sale on Adobe's stock image platform (Image: Adobe)
 
Has Trump’s triumph in Iowa killed the myth of the Iowa caucuses?
GUY RUNDLE

Hoping The Donald can be headed off by Nikki Haley in New Hampshire shows the mainstream right is in denial.

Donald Trump in Des Moines, Iowa (Image: AP/Andrew Harnik)
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The Greens will play hardball with Labor on its next housing scheme. Albanese must offer sweeteners
BENJAMIN CLARK

Labor passed HAFF after a terse standoff between Albanese and the Greens. Any future housing reform will be even harder for the government to achieve without concessions.

The Greens' Adam Bandt and Max Chandler-Mather (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)
 
AUKUS will be a feast for US venture capitalists — but will Australian firms get a slice of the cake?
ANTON NILSSON

Investors with $400 billion in funds have formed a network to take advantage of the trade opportunities created by the military alliance.

A US nuclear powered submarine in Perth last year (Image: AAP/Richard Wainwright)
 
Politics has started up early this year and Labor will need all the housing wins it can get
BEN ELTHAM

The cost-of-living crisis is hitting Australians hard — and there's no bigger cost of living than housing. So what is the government doing about it?

Anthony Albanese and Housing Minister Julie Collins (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)
 
Anatomy of a culture war: Dutton, Woolworths and January 26
CHARLIE LEWIS

Oh good, this again.

Peter Dutton (Image: Private Media)
 
(C)old friends: How Lachlan is leading Murdoch media back to a triumphant Trump
CHRISTOPHER WARREN

Trump has forced the Murdochs to choose between money and power — and Lachlan has chosen the money. 

Lachlan Murdoch and Donald Trump (Image: AAP/Private Media)
 
A federal MP is stealing cute animal videos to grow his Facebook audience
CAM WILSON

In between posts about Anthony Albanese's 'secret war on Australia', Jason Wood has uploaded other people's videos of dogs on skateboards and sloth family reunions.

Liberal MP Jason Wood and his most popular Facebook posts (Image: Jason Wood/Meta)
 
We need Aboriginal health in Aboriginal hands — not another Close the Gap report
JILL GALLAGHER

Aboriginal community-controlled health organisations are the key to improving health outcomes for all First Nations peoples.

Jill Gallagher, CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (Image: Supplied)
 
At the rate it’s going, Liberal Party will struggle to meet gender parity target
ANTON NILSSON

After Liberal preselectors chose a male candidate for the Dunkley by-election, the party isn't any closer to meeting its stated gender goals.

Liberal candidate for Dunkley Nathan Conroy (Image: Facebook)
 
How one man’s pay-to-use toilet gag revealed Google Maps can be used to track people
CAM WILSON

Will registered the business 'Big Dumpers' when living at his old share house. After moving, he could see when its new residents were home.

One user found how Google Maps' Popular times feature could be used to track the schedule of people at a location (Image: Google)
 
Does international law provide support for the unilateral military attack against the Houthi?
MICHAEL BRADLEY

What does the law say about the US-UK military attack against Houthi rebels in Yemen being an exercise of 'the inherent right of self-defence'?

An RAF Typhoon aircraft taking off to join a US-led coalition to conduct air strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen (Image: AAP/EPA/Sgt Lee Goddard/British Royal Air Force)
 
Lattouf crowdfunds, while Nine gets a new boss and pays out a class-action
DAANYAL SAEED

New bosses and payouts start a busy year at Nine, while the ABC continues to grapple with its sacking of presenter Antoinette Lattouf.

Antoinette Lattouf (Image: TedX)