It’s quite funny running a court case these days, to observe that the punters watching on YouTube and posting their thoughts on Reddit are comprehending what’s going on far more acutely and accurately than most of the media

This was necessary if the NACC is to have any hope of not being a running joke.

Opinion | The newly founded White Australia Party is in the High Court defending its right to have a political presence. As Michael Bradley writes, it's a sombre test for the government's terrible, authoritarian lawmaking. Read it here: www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/21/w...

It may be that the growing backlash against AI is a natural human instinct in the face of an existential threat, the threat not being the technology itself but the malignity of its promoters

The type of enterprise the tax system should reward is not the “make a startup, sell to private equity, then buy a yacht” type but the “build something that creates employment and shared prosperity long term” type. All this CGT whinging is just amorality being treated like it’s something good.

Now that's a vision of strength.

Jayson Gillham v Melbourne Symphony Orchestra goes to hearing on Monday (for three weeks), livestreamed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5bq...

Kos Samaras has done the numbers: 4.5 to 5 million non-citizen residents in Australia, all of whom Angus Taylor has just declared unworthy parasites he's going to kick off the national teat. Suicide note.

Angus Taylor's budget reply speech ticked all the One Nation boxes and maybe that'll drag a few angry men back into the fold but that's about the extent of its ambition and possibility

Two students at University of Sydney are under disciplinary investigation for distributing this flyer. The "concerns" include that the "Handala" image (the child figure) "is considered by some to be associated with violence against Israeli citizens or a symbol against Jewish self-determination".

The screws just keep being tightened on our universities, formerly independent institutions of academic learning and research, now corporatised compromised degree factories that are managed, not led. This rubbish is just another nail in their coffins.

There really is no excuse for an MP to switch parties mid-term. The appropriate course is to resign and face the voters again at the next opportunity with their new colours.

Don't know about you but we are so looking forward to Angus Taylor's budget reply speech tonight. As Jane Hume said, we're all going to be very pleasantly surprised by the new Liberal Party we've never seen before. Prepare your socks for being knocked off.

From the Federal Court judgment in Faruqi v Hanson [2024] FCA 1264, referring to detailed evidence that Pauline Hanson has a tendency to be publicly racist. This didn't include her statements and actions protected by parliamentary privilege, eg "we are in danger of being swamped by Asians/Muslims".

Always love the irony that it's always these people who are the ones demanding a discriminatory immigration policy based on the theory that "there's no way to tell which is the good one" (actual Pauline Hanson quote, about Muslims).

Policy-wise, the budget is good, not amazing. Politically it's brilliant, designed to bury the Coalition altogether and will most likely succeed at that. It will also help expose One Nation's ridiculousness and wedge the Greens into supporting it. So, full marks for tactical cleverness.

Federal budget funding for antisemitism: $604m. Federal budget funding for every other racism: $0m.

Our closest security ally with whom we have shared values

Rupert's campaign against this budget will resonate extremely well with voters at the upcoming 1950 federal election

The late Pet Murphy MP's gambling harm report "You win some, you lose more" was released on 28 June 2023. The Albanese government's response to her report was released today, 1,049 days later. It was timed to hit during the Budget lock-up, when nobody is paying attention.

There really isn't sufficient attention being paid to the fact that the person bankrolling Pauline Hanson - Gina Rinehart - is a fanatical Trump supporter.

What the Liberal Party should do now is continue sending Jane Hume out to do the interviews because that's worked extremely well for the past five years.

Farrer was the last defensive bastion for the Liberal Party in its delusion of continuing relevance. It is now naked.

They may take Julie Bishop's job, but they'll never take her $800,000 office located 3,092km from where her job was. We'll never see her like again.

The Liberal Party should have thrived with the benefit of successive waves of aspirational, socially conservative immigrants who would be its natural supporters, but it hasn’t for one simple reason: it doesn’t like people who aren’t white and it can’t hide it.

It's never far from the surface with Tony, that itch he has

We love Khaled and are proud to represent him

God yes do it, it's only fitting that Tony is the guy in charge when the receivers turn up to repossess the furniture.

Newflash: royal commission exposes shocking truth that Jews also encounter racism in otherwise racist country.

Just the sheer gaucheness of the Oval Office after all his defacement, yuck

The actual solution to the FOI problem is for governments to make efficient use of technology by making all their records public access online (with the most limited appropriate limitations) on an ongoing basis, then they'll no longer have to waste resources handling FOI applications.

Presumably by "Islamic nations" Henry means pre-industrial states that had majority Muslim populations, but no need to split hairs when you're such a sensitive humanist as he is.

Opinion | One thing the interim report makes clear is this process does not justify a royal commission, @marquelawyers.com.au writes. www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/30/a...

Will never be able to look at Credlin again without imagining her little voice plaintively booing on the inside

Albo's increasing use of winking language like "difficult" and "populist" is simply him dog whistling to institutional power that he is in the tent and will be staying there, so the power need not fear his government.

The gaslight on the hill.

Guns don't kill people, insufficient ballrooms kill people.

Playing hard for the “I’m not racist, but” part of the One Nation vote, which is the larger part.

How good is social cohesion

Booing the Welcome to Country at an Anzac Day ceremony is the same racism that Pauline Hanson performs every time she turns her back on the Acknowledgment of Country in the Senate. It doesn’t require a lot of analysis; it’s as sophisticated as she is.

It was set up to fail, and it did.

Israel has killed at least 263 journalists since Oct 7 2023, while not targeting journalists at all. Quite the achievement.

This is how you do it

Not a word of this is true

Kash Patel lodges application to join club of Men Who Should Not Have Sued For Defamation

We’re minutes away from the first op-ed in the Oz to call the pope an antisemite

"These politicians demonstrated that it is they who are incompatible with the system of representative and responsible government entrenched by the constitution. They should admit it, apologise, and do better, or join their stupid law in the bin."

Opinion | NSW's anti-protest law brought in after the Bondi attack is unconstitutional, the NSW Court of Appeal has ruled. Chris Minns should apologise — or resign, writes Michael Bradley. www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/17/c...

As we'll be arguing in Crikey today, the real upshot of the NSW Court of Appeal's judgment yesterday invalidating those ridiculous anti-protest laws, it is Premier Chris Minns who is incompatible with democracy. He clearly doesn't understand his responsibility as a leader of elected government.

We said this law was unconstitutional, and it was unconstitutional. Not because we're clever, you could spot the invalidity from Jupiter. Politicians make these ridiculous laws knowing they'll be struck down, as a measure of their own cowardice and lack of seriousness.