So, here we are: a month on from the election (yes, only a month) and the world and Australia seem like very different places.

Voters may have lost some appetite for politics, but it isn’t going away: it’s just changing. The Greens, one of the election’s biggest winners, are indulging in culture wars, the NSW government has some laudatory reform ideas (but then gets waylaid by the ultimate job-for-the-boys scandal), and, of course, fears of recession are stalking the land.

All of these topics were covered by Crikey this week, but mindful that there’s more to life than politics we also gave readers a super serve of media scandal, the ongoing dialogue around trans rights, the role of artificial intelligence, and another instalment in our investigations into the Hillsong Church.

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GUY RUNDLE 6 minute read

The half a million new supporters will be devastated that the party is pushing elite issues when it should be standing for the many, not the few.

BERNARD KEANE 3 minute read

For the first time, a major Australian government has placed women’s economic role front and centre in its fiscal and economic strategy.

IMOGEN CHAMPAGNE 2 minute read

It's been a pretty chilling week for lovers of winter vegies but those old favourites, legumes, beet all.

BERNARD KEANE and CLINTON FERNANDES 3 minute read

When Australia sends vessels into the South China Sea, is it a brave assertion of freedom of navigation or about gathering intelligence?

DAVID HARDAKER 6 minute read

The Morrison government approved a million-dollar-plus deal closely tied to Hillsong — one of two before the 2019 election it expected to lose.

IMOGEN CHAMPAGNE 4 minute read

The Crikey community is sharing its tales of Qantas travel woe, with long delays, lost luggage and general chaos due to the flying kangaroo.

STEVIE ZHANG 4 minute read

The swimming body has sent a clear message to transgender people that we are not allowed to succeed.

CAM WILSON 3 minute read

Artificial intelligence can answer questions, simplify ideas, come up with product names, make up horror movies and even be sarcastic (when asked).

CHARLIE LEWIS 3 minute read

We think the reported bust-up of Rupert and Jerry's six-year marriage should be treated with the same dignity his media empire treats others' sad times. But there's plenty more from the bunker.