Crikey

03/06/2026

Opinion | In the late 1970s, a loose coalition of free-market think tanks conspired to eat not just the poor but the whole world, writes John Birmingham. Enter Pauline Hanson.

Billionaires and corporations funded the holy war, and generations of politicians on both sides engineered it into real-world consequences. It's no wonder people are angry.

03/06/2026

It's hard to see how any party that is serious about housing affordability could be against a drop in house prices, writes Rachel Withers.

The Coalition wants to pin a recent property price drop on Labor’s tax changes, but it's unclear how any party claiming to care about 'housing affordability' or 'supply' can be against it.

03/06/2026

Misuse of parliamentary entitlements is an issue that pi**es off voters like nothing else. Why then can’t we clean up the culture?

The IPEA forcing former senator Linda Reynolds to pay back thousands of taxpayer dollars is just the latest in a series of tricky problems with pollies' expenses.

03/06/2026

There’s no such thing as bad news when it comes to AUKUS — according to the government, at least.

Australia remains undeterred in 'welcoming' AUKUS setbacks left, right and centre.

03/06/2026

Opinion | Donald Trump leads the movement of modern authoritarians who care "little or nothing for complexities and conundrums and the trimmings and trappings of democracy", writes John Keane in Despots and Demagogues.

Gripped by an inner urge to destroy checks, balances and mechanisms for publicly scrutinising and restraining power, demagogues like Donald Trump care little for the complexity of the world or the niceties of public accountability.

03/06/2026

Does any political party, or the government, actually want house prices to drop?

The Coalition wants to pin a recent property price drop on Labor’s tax changes, but it's unclear how any party claiming to care about 'housing affordability' or 'supply' can be against it.

03/06/2026

Every week, it seems there’s another politician with an expenses scandal. Can we force them to be better when it comes to parliamentary entitlements?

The IPEA forcing former senator Linda Reynolds to pay back thousands of taxpayer dollars is just the latest in a series of tricky problems with pollies' expenses.

03/06/2026

AUKUS started with the American president forgetting the Australian prime minister's name, and the humiliations have only accelerated from there.

Australia remains undeterred in 'welcoming' AUKUS setbacks left, right and centre.

03/06/2026

"For younger generations, Abbott is a relic, a dinosaur best remembered for regularly embarrassing himself."

https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/02/tony-abbott-liberal-party-dwindling-base-women-young-voters/

03/06/2026

Opinion | Authoritarians like Donald Trump trade in the oversimplification of wicked problems, for which there are no simple solutions, writes John Keane in Despots and Demagogues.

Gripped by an inner urge to destroy checks, balances and mechanisms for publicly scrutinising and restraining power, demagogues like Donald Trump care little for the complexity of the world or the niceties of public accountability.