ScoMo, Chemist Warehouse and Kim Williams
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This week we evaluated Scott Morrison's political legacy, evaluated the fall-out from Labor's tax changes, and followed the working class desertion of progressivism around the globe.

Elsewhere we revealed both that the “world's most controversial company” was still being used to solve Australian police cases, and that the media had been shut out of an AUKUS forum.

Plus on January 26 we brought you pieces from Gunai/Kurnai, Gunditjmara, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta writer Nayuka Gorrie, Amangu Yamatji academic Crystal McKinnon, Gunaikurnai and Wotjobaluk journalist Benjamin Abbatangelo and Gunditjmara writer Rueben Berg on what the date means this year, paying the rent and more.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend.
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Reconciliation is dead, and so is recognition. What’s next? 
NAYUKA GORRIE and CRYSTAL MCKINNON

Years of Aboriginal resistance efforts have successfully shifted public perception of Invasion Day. So what else can we achieve?

Protestors raise a fist during an Invasion Day rally in Sydney (Image: AAP/Bianca De Marchi)
 
Why it’s time to start paying the rent 
BENJAMIN ABBATANGELO

With Australia facing the biggest intergenerational wealth transfer it's ever seen, now is the time to put economic independence and self-determination back in the hands of First Nations peoples.

A Pay the Rent placard (Image: SIPA USA Joshua Prieto / SOPA Images)
 
I don’t understand your January 26 parties, but there’s a day ahead I’ll be celebrating
RUEBEN BERG

The shallow and toxic political posturing surrounding 'Australia Day' is bruising for First Nations peoples. But in Victoria, at least, there is hope in Treaty.

Parliament House behind the Indigenous flag in Canberra (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)
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Scott Morrison, an inflection point between old and new forms of rotten politics
BERNARD KEANE

The former prime minister was the worst of both worlds when it comes to the new era of grievance politics.

Scott Morrison (Images: AAP/Private Media)
 
Child-rearing to retina-searing: Scott Morrison’s greatest hits
CHARLIE LEWIS

Tips and Murmurs bids a fond farewell to a man who gave us so very much over the years.

Scott Morrison crash tackles a child during the 2022 federal election campaign (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)
 
Even if the ABC wins Antoinette Lattouf’s case, it will still lose
MICHAEL BRADLEY

The national broadcaster's mishandling of the Lattouf situation is an ongoing legal and reputational disaster, the latest in a long line.

Antoinette Lattouf (centre) leaving the FWC hearing (Image: AAP/Toby Zerna)
 
‘World’s most controversial company’ Clearview AI still being used to solve Australian police cases
CAM WILSON

A Crikey investigation reveals that the Australian Federal Police has provided case materials that were then analysed using Clearview AI's technology that the agency can't use.

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Media banned as Fitzgibbon and Sinodinos hit the road to ‘unleash’ the power of AUKUS
ANTON NILSSON

The ex-ministers are criss-crossing the country to promote a business group focused on AUKUS, but media is not allowed at any events.

AUKUS Forum co-chair Arthur Sinodinos (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)
 
The Chemist Warehouse-Sigma merger is a major test of Labor’s competition plans
BEN ELTHAM

When pharmaceuticals consolidate, evidence shows we get less competition, higher prices and worse care.

A Chemist Warehouse store in Sydney (Image: AAP/Bianca De Marchi)
 
Kim Williams will be a quite different ABC chair, and is no Murdoch stooge
BERNARD KEANE

Don't expect business as usual from new ABC chair Kim Williams. He brings extensive broadcasting and arts management expertise to the role.

Newly appointed ABC chair Kim Williams and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)
 
Albanese’s broken tax promise fires the gun on the next election campaign
BERNARD KEANE

The PM's planned changes to the stage three tax cuts might be good policy but the broken promise will have Peter Dutton jumping for joy.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)
 
Labor talks the talk on transparency. This year, can it walk the walk?
KIERAN PENDER

Transparency in government requires more than laws and shiny new institutions. It needs real courage and leadership.

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and Anthony Albanese (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)
 
Trump surges and Europe goes right. Will progressives learn the lesson?
GUY RUNDLE

The working class doesn't want what the left is offering and is deserting its parties all around the world.

Geert Wilders, Viktor Orbán, Donald Trump, Giorgia Meloni (Image: Zennie/Private Media)