Sovereigns and sovereignty

Friday Sep 23

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This week Britain mourned a monarch, but where would the late queen sit in the BRW Rich List? Jason Murphy investigates.

And for fans of Australia’s most popular sport, the ongoing impact of colonisation was thrown into sharp relief. Bernard Keane drew parallels between the alleged racist treatment of Aboriginal footy players and modern slavery, and Guy Rundle explained what the renaming of a hospital says about Labor’s notions of Indigenous sovereignty.

Elsewhere Imogen Champagne took a close look at that creepy one-fingered salute by Trump supporters, and Amber Schultz brought you the first three instalments of her series on the end of the pandemic. Read these and plenty more stories below.

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Have a lovely weekend,

Gina Rushton,
News editor

A statement on Mr Lachlan Murdoch v Crikey’s publisher Private Media

CRIKEY

Lachlan Murdoch is suing Crikey’s publisher Private Media, journalist Bernard Keane and Crikey’s editor-in-chief Peter Fray. Private Media’s CEO Will Hayward has released the following statement.

WATCH: Private Media CEO explains three points of Crikey’s defence against Lachlan Murdoch

WILL HAYWARD

Lachlan Murdoch is suing Crikey’s publisher Private Media, political editor Bernard Keane and Crikey’s editor-in-chief Peter Fray for defamation.

First hearing in Lachlan Murdoch and Crikey defamation case

MARGOT SAVILLE

In Sydney's Federal Court this morning, the first hearing went ahead for Lachlan Murdoch's suit against Crikey's publisher Private Media.

The editors of News Corp’s new youth title have the hardest job in journalism

GINA RUSHTON and CAM WILSON

The Oz has the difficult task of trying to bridge the political and ideological divide between its conservative readership and younger readers.

(Image: Mitchell Squire/Private Media)

The queen used to be the richest person in the UK. By the time she died, she’d barely make the Australian top 200. Here’s why

JASON MURPHY

The late monarch bequeathed a mere £437 million to her son and heir, a modest amount that would have just squeezed her into the top 200 of the BRW Rich List.

(Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

Racism in footy — again

Hawthorn’s alleged abuse of Indigenous players looks much like modern slavery

BERNARD KEANE

The AFL club's treatment of Indigenous players, as alleged by the ABC, must be severely punished if proven true. Clichéd responses won't do.

Former Hawthorn Hawks coach Alastair Clarkson (left) and former assistant coach Chris Fagan in 2015 (Image: AAP/Julian Smith)

Tony Armstrong, ABC broadcaster and former AFL player, speaks truth to power and sends love to First Nations peoples

IMOGEN CHAMPAGNE

'I’m very, very sad to read these allegations, and I guess most importantly my thoughts are with the families who are allegedly affected. Just spare a thought for those people today.'

Alleged mistreatment of Hawthorn’s Indigenous players reveals sport’s deep-set racism

AMBER SCHULTZ

Horrific allegations around the Hawthorn Football Club's treatment of Indigenous players and families have been laid bare.

Meet the young, vaccine-sceptic face of Sky News Australia’s TikTok account

CAM WILSON

News Corp's television network hopes to repeat its success on Facebook and YouTube with opinion videos for international, reactionary audiences.

Carla Efstratiou from Sky News' TikTok (Image: TikTok/@skynewsaust)

The Australian’s alternative budget facts: how spending ‘ballooned’ under Labor

BERNARD KEANE

Who's responsible for big government spending? At News Corp they reckon it's Labor. Too bad the facts disagree.

(Image: Mitchell Squire/Private Media)

Hospital renaming saga reveals serious limits in the politics of ‘colonialism’ and Labor as a ‘party of racist policy’

GUY RUNDLE

Queen Elizabeth II Hospital? Is it a blunder, or another Labor play to the right? And how can we have a radical politics that doesn't appropriate others' suffering?

(Image: Mitchell Squire/Private Media)

What’s with the creepy one-fingered salute by Trump supporters?

IMOGEN CHAMPAGNE

Fans and followers of Donald Trump are giving everyone the finger — what's its origin and meaning? And should we be concerned?

Trump supporters give the one-fingered salute at a political rally (left) compared with the three-fingered salute from The Hunger Games (Images: Newsmax/Twitter)

Is COVID over?

End of the pandemic? Not for those suffering with long-COVID symptoms

AMBER SCHULTZ

Millions of people suffer from long COVID but diagnosis and treatment is hard to come by and some doctors say live with it.

(Image: Private Media)

End of the pandemic? Not a chance. Even when it’s over it won’t be over

AMBER SCHULTZ

Some foresee the pandemic's end on the horizon, but experts say the virus may 'still have some tricks up its sleeve'.

End of the pandemic? For the elderly and immunocompromised, there is no return to normal

AMBER SCHULTZ

COVID-19 is still a real threat for those in aged care homes and for people with disabilities.

1 in 3 Australians could be caught in Optus cyberattack and they have no recourse

CAM WILSON

The 7 million Australians reportedly affected by the Optus cyberattack will have to monitor their own risk, the company said.

(Image: Gorkie/Private Media)

A tide of extremists rises as 33 million Pakistanis inundated by floodwaters plead for help

AMBER SCHULTZ

Banned jihadist groups are delivering aid in the region, and locals angry at inaction on climate change may be susceptible to their ideology.

A flooded road in Nasirabad, in Pakistan's south-west (Image: AP/Zahid Hussain)

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