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This week Cam Wilson brought you two revelations from Australian media, exposing a Daily Mail reporter behind an influential racist Twitter account, and elsewhere documenting the white supremacists and anti-Semites writing for Spectator Australia.

Meanwhile, Maeve McGregor mapped the Liberal Party's stance on the Voice after 30 years of partisanship on Indigenous reconciliation, and from Mparntwe (Alice Springs) Julia Bergin joined a night patrol of Traditional Owners who said they were sick and tired of non-local troublemakers coming into the remote town. 

Plus Guy Rundle reflected on the seven-decade career of Barry Humphries.

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Daily Mail reporter secretly ran a popular racist, anti-Semitic Twitter account
CAM WILSON

In 2021, @patrickbasedmn tweeted about an electric car conspiracy theory. A year later, a strikingly similar article appeared in the Daily Mail.

(Image: Zennie/Private Media)
Spectator Australia keeps publishing white supremacists and anti-Semites
CAM WILSON

Exclusive: Self-described veterans, Christian teachers and essayists are using mainstream conservative publications to launder their secret extremist views.

 
‘Your voice is your power’: Alice Springs Traditional Owners launch their own patrol
JULIA BERGIN

The Traditional Owners of Alice Springs are sick and tired of non-local troublemakers coming into town and putting their people, culture, and Country to shame. Now they plan to be seen and heard.

Lhere Artepe Mparntwe Alice Springs Traditional Owner patrol (Image: Julia Bergin)
 
The flinty contradiction at the heart of Labor’s support for the RBA review findings
MAEVE MCGREGOR

The recent review into the central bank was radical, but more for what it says about the Albanese government

(Image: Gorkie/Private Media)
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Barry Humphries was no genius, he was a comedian. Therein lay his genius
GUY RUNDLE

Dame Edna's creator knew what a truly great artist was, and that Australian didn't produce them. The torment of that was the making of his brilliant, seven-decade career.

Barry Humpries in 2012 (Image: AAP/Julian Smith)
 
Dutton and Price are digging the Voice’s grave, one long prepared by Liberals past
MAEVE MCGREGOR

The Liberals' stance on the Voice is an insurgency rooted in over 30 years of partisanship on Indigenous reconciliation.

Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton (Image: AAP/Michael Errey)
 
Lindsay Fox, who just threw a men-only birthday bash, is hiring a diversity officer
CHARLIE LEWIS

Australian businessman Lindsay Fox — fresh from his all-male 86th birthday party — is looking for an educator on diversity and inclusion.

Australian businessman Lindsay Fox (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)
 
Newspaper writes about Liberal MP 100 times — but doesn’t disclose he helped set it up
CAM WILSON

South Australian MLC Ben Hood's company registered the website for The SE Voice, which has favourably covered his tilts for Parliament.

(Image: Zennie/Private Media/Andrew Dodd/The SE Voice)
 
‘Rapid unscheduled disassembly’: a potted history of great political euphemisms
CHARLIE LEWIS

Following the 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' of SpaceX’s Starship rocket, Crikey looks at the great political euphemisms of history.

A composite of SpaceX's Starship launches from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, and Elon Musk (Image: AAP/AP/Eric Gay)
 
Bernard Keane on Lachlan Murdoch dropping his defamation case against Crikey
BERNARD KEANE

With Lachlan Murdoch ceasing his litigation against Crikey, Bernard Keane reflects on what motivated us in a battle against a media behemoth, and why it continues to matter.

Lachlan Murdoch (Image: EPA/Andrew Gombert)
Young Rupert Murdoch and the ‘poison pen’ trial that hauled him to court
WALTER MARSH

Half a century before the Dominion lawsuit, Rupert Murdoch’s first turn in the witness box offered a sign of empires to come.

Inside Crikey’s defence against Murdoch and the mire of defamation law
MICHAEL BRADLEY

Crikey's legal defence centred on its journalism being in the public interest, which Lachlan Murdoch wanted struck out altogether.

 
ABC will re-air Fox News investigation ‘in light of’ Dominion case
JOHN BUCKLEY

'Fox will no longer be scrutinised through a trial, so this is the complete story,' the ABC said.

A still from the Four Corners investigation of Fox News (Image: ABC)
 
Tucker Carlson out, deals done: what’s behind the Fox spring clean?
CHRISTOPHER WARREN

So many innuendos, so few certainties, as Rupert Murdoch takes up a corporate broom to sweep away some costly dross.

Tucker Carlson (Image: AP/Seth Wenig)
 
Attendee at Malcolm Roberts event calls for a ‘military wing’ for the freedom movement
CAM WILSON

The One Nation senator said he did not have time to refute claims that a former prime minister was a necrophiliac because he wanted to focus on rejecting the call for violence.

One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts responds to a constituent at an event (Image: Facebook)
 
Yes, Colbert, our name is funny — unlike this bit of racist cringe comedy
CHARLIE LEWIS

Stephen Colbert's famously a bright guy, so it's surprising that in a segment mentioning Crikey, a gag using First Nations culture was given the green light.

Composite of a monologue from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Image: CBS/YouTube)