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Crikey Re-read | "While Netflix has about 300 million subscribers, YouTube has 2.74 billion active users ... but only Netflix had to pay for most of its content."
The Netflix-Warner deal is a sign of weakness, not strength — and there are plenty of losers
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December 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Crikey Re-read | "While Netflix has about 300 million subscribers, YouTube has 2.74 billion active users ... but only Netflix had to pay for most of its content."
Crikey Re-read | "Governments are going to use AI like outsourcing on steroids. Life-or-death decisions are going to be punted to a bug-riddled algorithm that can’t be held accountable."
Australian media figures on AI, and which journos are the up-and-coming ones to watch
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December 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Crikey Re-read | "Governments are going to use AI like outsourcing on steroids. Life-or-death decisions are going to be punted to a bug-riddled algorithm that can’t be held accountable."
Crikey Re-read | "Channelling nostalgia only moves the mood of a subset of voters when most actually pine for considered policies anchored in present-day reality."
Matt Kean: The Liberals deserve to keep on losing unless they change course
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December 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Crikey Re-read | "Channelling nostalgia only moves the mood of a subset of voters when most actually pine for considered policies anchored in present-day reality."
Crikey Re-read | "It’s often only when a whistleblower contacts a journalist that we learn just how secretive and media-managed normal operations of the state have become, or how broken."
A rare win: Investigative journalism and its consolations
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December 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Crikey Re-read | "It’s often only when a whistleblower contacts a journalist that we learn just how secretive and media-managed normal operations of the state have become, or how broken."
Crikey Re-read | "At this point, we’re not entirely certain Truss hasn’t been collaborating with Nathan Fielder since early last year."
A matter of Truss: The strange afterlife of a short-lived PM — as she launches her own show
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December 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Crikey Re-read | "At this point, we’re not entirely certain Truss hasn’t been collaborating with Nathan Fielder since early last year."
Crikey Re-read | "I essentially use my Substack as a way to build community at a time when people are really needing community ... there aren’t algorithms dialling up outrage."
Is Substack's ascent in Australia a tipping point for traditional media?
Legacy media outlets are 'too predictable, risk-averse, talking-pointy', says a former ABC radio broadcaster.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Crikey Re-read | "I essentially use my Substack as a way to build community at a time when people are really needing community ... there aren’t algorithms dialling up outrage."
Crikey Re-read | "Reiner's early films are pure mass culture, in the best possible sense, from a time when movies in particular inflected through day-to-day in a way that barely ever happens anymore."
Rob Reiner and the lost joys of mass culture
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December 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Crikey Re-read | "Reiner's early films are pure mass culture, in the best possible sense, from a time when movies in particular inflected through day-to-day in a way that barely ever happens anymore."
“Somebody from the Nats has to step up from the conservative side of politics to be part of that negotiation.”
Political responses to the Port Arthur and Bondi massacres are wildly different — but unity is still possible
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December 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“Somebody from the Nats has to step up from the conservative side of politics to be part of that negotiation.”
Crikey Re-read | "We never thought we’d see him live outside the four walls of the ward. But last year, a new NDIS plan enabled my brother to make the long-awaited transition to supported independent living."
The NDIS is more than a budget item. It’s my brother’s lifeline
The NDIS, despite its flaws, can transform lives. But with tomorrow's federal budget looming, the service is under immense pressure.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Crikey Re-read | "We never thought we’d see him live outside the four walls of the ward. But last year, a new NDIS plan enabled my brother to make the long-awaited transition to supported independent living."
Crikey Re-read | December has had more road deaths in the past 30 years than any other month, but the nature of Australia’s road toll has changed a lot.
Road deaths may be rising again after falling for years. Why?
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December 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Crikey Re-read | December has had more road deaths in the past 30 years than any other month, but the nature of Australia’s road toll has changed a lot.
Crikey Re-read | "We should ban the export of textile waste, because if we did, that would force Australia to take accountability and responsibility for its waste."
Waste colonialism: What's really happening to Australian clothes 'recycled' in the Pacific
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December 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Crikey Re-read | "We should ban the export of textile waste, because if we did, that would force Australia to take accountability and responsibility for its waste."
A proposed new Labor policy could chill foreign investment in Australia, US tech lobby groups warn.
'Trump might retaliate': US tech lobby lashes out at Australia's proposed new media bargaining scheme
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December 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
A proposed new Labor policy could chill foreign investment in Australia, US tech lobby groups warn.
“I don’t care what anyone’s doing. I’m busy”: Gideon Haigh is all of us in this second edition of Movers and Shakers.
Australian media’s movers and shakers on the best journalism of the year, and savviest industry move
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December 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
“I don’t care what anyone’s doing. I’m busy”: Gideon Haigh is all of us in this second edition of Movers and Shakers.
Charities are being put on notice to let supporters know they’re being labelled, ranked and targeted with messages based on the data gathered and gleaned about them. @cameronwilson.bsky.social reports.
Government, regulators tell charities to be 'transparent' when using data to target donors
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December 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Charities are being put on notice to let supporters know they’re being labelled, ranked and targeted with messages based on the data gathered and gleaned about them. @cameronwilson.bsky.social reports.
Opinion | Watching Hastie this past week, you get a sense of a man whose time has finally come, the inevitable future of a party as directionless as it is deadbeat.
Andrew Hastie — Howard’s true heir — is the future of the LNP (sadly)
Perhaps more than any of the many failed sons that have ruled over us since 2007, Hastie is Howard’s true successor.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Opinion | Watching Hastie this past week, you get a sense of a man whose time has finally come, the inevitable future of a party as directionless as it is deadbeat.
Christ, where do we start with this one?
Turning Point's AmericaFest a perfect way to end another surreal year in US politics
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December 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Christ, where do we start with this one?
If renewable energy projects once earmarked for turning Australia into a renewable energy superpower are instead diverted to feed data centres, there will be no real climate benefit, @ketanjoshi.co writes.
Data centres are coming for what’s left of Australia’s green export superpower dream
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December 23, 2025 at 3:42 AM
If renewable energy projects once earmarked for turning Australia into a renewable energy superpower are instead diverted to feed data centres, there will be no real climate benefit, @ketanjoshi.co writes.
The painful memories of Port Arthur also carry important lessons for Australia’s political leaders about how to comfort a community and lead the nation through trauma, @crystaljane.bsky.social writes.
Political responses to the Port Arthur and Bondi massacres are wildly different — but unity is still possible
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December 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The painful memories of Port Arthur also carry important lessons for Australia’s political leaders about how to comfort a community and lead the nation through trauma, @crystaljane.bsky.social writes.
The event was a sequin-covered riot of menace and farce — the perfect way to conclude this year in US politics, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.
Turning Point's AmericaFest a perfect way to end another surreal year in US politics
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December 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The event was a sequin-covered riot of menace and farce — the perfect way to conclude this year in US politics, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.
Opinion | Just because the media and the right are out to get Anthony Albanese, doesn’t mean he’s a good PM, writes Bernard Keane.
In the wake of tragedy, it's still business as usual for politicians and the media. And Albanese, most of all
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December 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Opinion | Just because the media and the right are out to get Anthony Albanese, doesn’t mean he’s a good PM, writes Bernard Keane.
The government has warned that charities must be transparent about how they’re collecting, using and sharing data, following a Crikey investigation into the widespread use of commercial profiling.
Government, regulators tell charities to be 'transparent' when using data to target donors
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December 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The government has warned that charities must be transparent about how they’re collecting, using and sharing data, following a Crikey investigation into the widespread use of commercial profiling.
One lobby group warned US President Donald Trump could be moved to “retaliate” if the proposal wasn’t withdrawn.
'Trump might retaliate': US tech lobby lashes out at Australia's proposed new media bargaining scheme
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December 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
One lobby group warned US President Donald Trump could be moved to “retaliate” if the proposal wasn’t withdrawn.
Opinion | Perhaps more than any of the many failed sons that have ruled over us since 2007, Andrew Hastie is John Howard’s true successor.
Andrew Hastie — Howard’s true heir — is the future of the LNP (sadly)
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December 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Opinion | Perhaps more than any of the many failed sons that have ruled over us since 2007, Andrew Hastie is John Howard’s true successor.
Trying to name a "smart move" in Australian media is like “putting Poirot into a drawing room of people scratching their own eyes out, then asking him to find the person who can still see”. Ouch!
Australian media’s movers and shakers on the best journalism of the year, and savviest industry move
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December 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Trying to name a "smart move" in Australian media is like “putting Poirot into a drawing room of people scratching their own eyes out, then asking him to find the person who can still see”. Ouch!
Amid the anger and grief of Port Arthur, it took just 12 days for Australia’s political leaders to come together to pass gun control laws. Why is the unity of that time eluding them now?
Political responses to the Port Arthur and Bondi massacres are wildly different — but unity is still possible
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December 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Amid the anger and grief of Port Arthur, it took just 12 days for Australia’s political leaders to come together to pass gun control laws. Why is the unity of that time eluding them now?