When Anthony Albanese confirmed that his government would ban social media for people under the age of 16, many — including Crikey — started thinking about how that would actually work.

If a brutal inquiry is the right answer for supermarkets and a royal commission for the banks, surely the aviation sector’s time has come? I’d say yes if I was not aware how those inquiries ...

Labor’s path to passing its misinformation bill is narrowing, with several key crossbench senators going on the record in the past 24 hours to oppose the legislation. ACT Senator David Pocock ...

Coalition MPs must have rocks in their heads if they support Don Farrell’s political donation and spending reforms. It’s a major party stitch-up — but one that Labor wins from, big-time.

'There is a lot of sanitisation of what immigration detention means, but the reality ... has a devastating and generational impact on people and their families and communities.' The Asylum Seeker ...

The question of what Australia’s national sport is has occupied us for decades, igniting passionate debate at the pub, forcing us to grapple with ideas of what makes a sport part of the national ...

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Two days after Donald Trump declared victory, the 6am Greyhound bus from Washington DC to Pittsburgh and on to Ohio and Kentucky is a quarter full when the exquisitely grumpy driver pulls away ...

Since Donald Trump’s reelection as US president, Australian leaders have spent considerable airtime assuring voters there’s nothing to worry about. Headlines were dominated this morning by ...

Crikey is an independent Australian source for news, investigations, analysis and opinion focusing on politics, media, economics, health, international affairs, the climate, business, society and ...

As the Albanese government hurtles towards what increasingly looks like one-term status, its flailing desperation and lack of judgement — or, rather, the substitution of its flawed political ...

Labor’s proposed $900 million “national productivity fund” to encourage states to boost competition is another in an increasingly long list of reforms that mean the Albanese government ...