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‘An exercise in revisionism’: Crikey readers correct the record on the 2009 CPRS

Crikey Readers — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 05:52:31 +0000

Plus, WA voters aren't the ones being pandered to by the Albanese government — rather, Labor is courting the state of ‘Woodside Australia’.

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Adam Bandt’s super-profits tax proposal is bang on the money and far from being a ‘zero-sum game’

Crikey Readers — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 05:22:43 +0000

Crikey readers volunteered their own economic analysis of the Greens’ latest tax plans, and ask whether it’s time for more radically leftist ideas in Parliament.

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‘A potpourri of ideas’: Crikey readers weigh in on Guy Rundle’s pitch to reform the ABC

Crikey Readers — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 03:13:40 +0000

Plus, a novel idea to improve the behaviour of Australian parliamentarians.

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Reader reply: Debate over the age of criminal responsibility overlooks the true meaning of intervention

Maire Mannik — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:51:57 +0000

Criminal responsibility allows for interventions that divert children from re-offending — a process that must also be available to kids as young as 10.

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‘Beyond crass, downright subversive’: Crikey readers on Dutton’s plan to block Gazans from entering Australia

Crikey Readers — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:07:34 +0000

Plus praise for Max Kaiser’s assessment of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and one reader predicts Kamala Harris will be 'the most consequential person of the 21st Century'.

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‘Even his cruellest lines had a certain wit and elegance’: Crikey readers on the barbs to add to our Paul Keating Sledge-O-Meter

Crikey Readers — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:14:14 +0000

Plus are Scott Morrison’s sob stories an ‘own goal’ for Linda Reynolds defamation claim against Brittany Higgins?

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Here’s what Crikey readers think the ABC is getting wrong. And a few things it’s getting right

Crikey Readers — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 23:29:51 +0000

If ABC chairman Kim Williams wants ideas to help lift the national broadcaster's standing, Crikey readers are more than happy to oblige.

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Reader reply: The lesson of Lawler’s The Doll is Australia’s refusal to grow up

Tom Richards — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 23:50:36 +0000

Restaging Australian classics can be like finding a 40-year-old VB can in your parent's garage. Sure, there's a novelty, but I'm not going to drink it.

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‘Why on earth should Gladys lose her pension?’ Crikey readers on Berejiklian’s post-ICAC prospects

Crikey Readers — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 22:57:36 +0000

Also in today's Your Say: What makes protest ‘peaceful’, outrage over new gas permits, and the slim chance of a government bailout for Rex.

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‘So sharp he’s cut himself’: How Murdoch gained everything but satisfaction

Crikey Readers — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 21:55:03 +0000

'Decades of framing political clout, of being the ultimate puppeteer, of the privileged lifestyle, all culminating in a Nevada courtroom having alienated three heirs.'

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