The NACC report is astonishing for just how many non-sequiturs, excuses and naive assumptions can be packed into 455 pages. The deputy commissioner who authored it is not a judge, unlike Catherine Holmes. And it shows. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/n...
can confirm. it was so ludicrously easy to get around
“I’d rather be difficult than disappointing.” Grace Tame on the D word, and on the very precise timing of people leaping to her defence.
“Kilgour displays a naive understanding of the real-life behaviour of senior public servants, wondering aloud in her official report how or why such officials could ever do the wrong thing while at times finding they did just that.” @squigglyrick.bsky.social slams NACC’s “baffling” robodebt report
Very timely convo with Jo Tarnawsky about the ways that power protects itself in our political system: "You don’t need to become the system, but you certainly need to know the waters that you’re wading in to be able to get any traction."
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🚨 scoop alert from @cameronwilson.bsky.social 🚨 -- the Business Council of Australia proposed, then ditched, a plan to amend the Copyright Act so AI training on copyrighted work is no longer considered infringement
Marco Rubio wearing a navy suit and black dress shoes. He's looking down at his feet.
"i think he bought the wrong size"
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There is only one trait that Matt Canavan will need as Nationals leader: his unslakable thirst for drama. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/11/m...
"To see NACC now portraying the hard work of so many people to reveal the tragedy of robodebt — often in the face of media hostility — as somehow an inevitable case of “deception soon being discovered” is sickening." Read @keanebernard.bsky.social on NACC's twisted reasoning.
"Are we at war? It's a reasonable question for Australians to ask, given the government is sending one of its most sophisticated reconnaissance planes — crewed by dozens of military personnel — to the Middle East." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
The reality is the Canberra bubble was never going to allow their own to face consequences for Robodebt
The NACC held *35 days* of private hearings in its investigation into Robodebt corruption, but decided that these hearings didn't need to be public.
I, for one, would have liked to have watched the corruption hearing of Scott Morrison
The NACC continues to be a joke
ACMA received a litany of complaints about Kyle and Jackie O over the years, and never once took them off the air for their various sins. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/06/t...
“It’s like buying a Rolls Royce to squash a mosquito,” said one analyst of Defence’s “overkill” deal with Trump-linked tech company Palantir. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/09/p...
"Our role is not to smile and look nice" -- @crystaljane.bsky.social spoke to some of the young women who backed Albanese and helped boost him to victory. They are... not happy.
Opinion | Former prime minister Paul Keating eviscerates what he calls the “extravagant untruth” of the Nine newspapers' 2023 "Red Alert" series that predicted war with China in three years.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/06/p...
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“They won’t know what hit ’em when our Delta rolls in with her blitzkrieg of soulful piano ballads and Nina Tucker might,” writes @cormacmccafe.bsky.social
“Europe is on its knees, and it’s time Australia went for the jugular.”
“They won’t know what hit ’em when our Delta rolls in with her blitzkrieg of soulful piano ballads and Nina Tucker might,” writes @cormacmccafe.bsky.social
“Europe is on its knees, and it’s time Australia went for the jugular.”
Been a while since I've shilled for the masthead, but this seems a good excuse: If you appreciate these kind of stories, and wish Australian media would produce more of this kind of work, the best way to make that happen is subscribing to @crikey.com.au!
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The Liberal Party decided to keep the scathing review into its 2025 election loss away from the public eye. That decision has backfired.
Read it here: www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/04/l...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead and his body has been found, a senior Israeli official tells Reuters.
“This isn’t a ‘not all men’ piece. That’s a separate genre, usually published in the comments section beneath a news story about murdered women, by a man named ‘Dave’ whose profile picture is a flag.” Another knock out column from Sami Shah…
In response to an inquiry into the unlawful cancellation of 964 welfare payments, the government said it was using a new app to check on abusive or non-compliant job service providers. As Rick Morton exclusively reveals for Crikey, that app doesn’t exist.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/27/r...
SA Labor are genuinely staring down (well, rubbing their hands with glee) the prospect of no genuine opposition on the other side of this election. Great chat b/w @crystaljane.bsky.social & Jo Dyer
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Early @crikey.com.au is a vibe. Cast your mind back to the year 2000…
Go on, it’s fun there.
