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"[AI] will quickly be weaponised by the richest and the worst of us" — Channel 10's Hugh Riminton.
Australian media figures on AI, and which journos are the up-and-coming ones to watch
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December 19, 2025 at 6:17 AM
"[AI] will quickly be weaponised by the richest and the worst of us" — Channel 10's Hugh Riminton.
Bigger cars, distracting phones, older drivers: all the possible reasons our roads are becoming less safe.
Road deaths may be rising again after falling for years. Why?
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December 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Bigger cars, distracting phones, older drivers: all the possible reasons our roads are becoming less safe.
Australian road deaths are climbing again after falling for many years. Why? Jason Murphy dives into the data.
Road deaths may be rising again after falling for years. Why?
Though Australian roads are some of the least lethal in the world, the data shows a slight change in trend in road safety.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Australian road deaths are climbing again after falling for many years. Why? Jason Murphy dives into the data.
"AI can never generate a news story because it can’t think to contact someone to find something out, operate on a hunch, or use deduction based on past experience to then employ the art of bluff" — AFR political editor Phil Coorey.
Australian media figures on AI, and which journos are the up-and-coming ones to watch
We asked Australia's biggest media figures about what scares them about artificial intelligence, and which new reporters are making a splash.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"AI can never generate a news story because it can’t think to contact someone to find something out, operate on a hunch, or use deduction based on past experience to then employ the art of bluff" — AFR political editor Phil Coorey.
“I suspect what really gets everyone about them is how frail, how unavoidably human it makes the staffers of the most openly authoritarian White House in history look,” @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.
Vanity Fair’s scroll-stopping White House portraits punctures the unreality of Trump 2.0
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December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“I suspect what really gets everyone about them is how frail, how unavoidably human it makes the staffers of the most openly authoritarian White House in history look,” @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.
Poisonous flagged food is a potent reminder that the vast majority of what the government does goes on below the surface, administrating our systems safely.
Poisonous food is stopped at our borders all the time. Which ones crop up more than others?
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December 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Poisonous flagged food is a potent reminder that the vast majority of what the government does goes on below the surface, administrating our systems safely.
There are some good ideas in Jillian Segal’s antisemitism report, but it is not a fix-all for this deeply complicated problem.
The special envoy’s report doesn’t hold all the answers for defeating antisemitism
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December 18, 2025 at 5:14 AM
There are some good ideas in Jillian Segal’s antisemitism report, but it is not a fix-all for this deeply complicated problem.
Ignore Labor’s spin — our fiscal situation is bad, and driven by a government that can’t stop increasing spending, writes Bernard Keane.
Labor is on a spending splurge. Only higher taxes are keeping the deficit to merely bad
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December 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Ignore Labor’s spin — our fiscal situation is bad, and driven by a government that can’t stop increasing spending, writes Bernard Keane.
Opinion | Disingenuousness is drowning us, melding with the rank salaciousness of our media and the genuine grief and rage of the Bondi community with the rent torn in its fabric by an incomprehensible crime.
The Bondi victims are already fading into the background, collateral of a bigger war
The families of the Bondi victims haven't even had the chance to mourn or bury them, yet blame and demands from all sides have flown thick and fast.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Opinion | Disingenuousness is drowning us, melding with the rank salaciousness of our media and the genuine grief and rage of the Bondi community with the rent torn in its fabric by an incomprehensible crime.
Jillian Segal’s antisemitism report missed an opportunity to address difficult conversations in a constructive way.
The special envoy’s report doesn’t hold all the answers for defeating antisemitism
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December 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Jillian Segal’s antisemitism report missed an opportunity to address difficult conversations in a constructive way.
Christopher Anderson’s portraits of White House staff at once capture and puncture the unreality of Trump-world, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.
Vanity Fair’s scroll-stopping White House portraits punctures the unreality of Trump 2.0
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December 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Christopher Anderson’s portraits of White House staff at once capture and puncture the unreality of Trump-world, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.
Of all scanned food into Australia, 98.4% passes fine. But the items stopped aren't what you'd expect.
Poisonous food is stopped at our borders all the time. Which ones crop up more than others?
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December 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Of all scanned food into Australia, 98.4% passes fine. But the items stopped aren't what you'd expect.
Opinion | We still don’t even know all the Bondi victims' names, yet they already are fading into the background, collateral in an apparently far more important war, @marquelawyers.com.au writes.
The Bondi victims are already fading into the background, collateral of a bigger war
The families of the Bondi victims haven't even had the chance to mourn or bury them, yet blame and demands from all sides have flown thick and fast.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Opinion | We still don’t even know all the Bondi victims' names, yet they already are fading into the background, collateral in an apparently far more important war, @marquelawyers.com.au writes.
People have made thousands of dollars pumping and dumping crypto coins based on the Bondi attack.
How grifters and scammers are using crypto and fake fundraisers to profit off the Bondi Beach shooting
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December 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
People have made thousands of dollars pumping and dumping crypto coins based on the Bondi attack.
The funeral for 10-year-old Bondi shooting victim Matilda will be held in Sydney today. Meanwhile, the opposition has ramped up its rhetoric against Anthony Albanese's government.
Matilda to be laid to rest as remaining alleged shooter charged with nearly 60 offences
The funeral for 10-year-old Bondi shooting victim Matilda will be held in Sydney today. Meanwhile, the opposition has ramped up its rhetoric against Anthony Albanese's government.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The funeral for 10-year-old Bondi shooting victim Matilda will be held in Sydney today. Meanwhile, the opposition has ramped up its rhetoric against Anthony Albanese's government.
Few filmmakers can claim to have made as many influential films across so many genres in such a short space of time as Rob Reiner did in the eight years between 1984 and 1992.
Rob Reiner and the lost joys of mass culture
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December 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Few filmmakers can claim to have made as many influential films across so many genres in such a short space of time as Rob Reiner did in the eight years between 1984 and 1992.
Opinion | When "stories of powerlessness are apparently too difficult or niche for a national audience", Tasmania suffers, writes Nick Feik.
A rare win: Investigative journalism and its consolations
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December 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Opinion | When "stories of powerlessness are apparently too difficult or niche for a national audience", Tasmania suffers, writes Nick Feik.
Melbourne University Publishing said it closed Meanjin for “purely financial reasons”. But why did the university rebuff the many offers from parties trying to save the magazine?
FOI docs reveal Meanjin axing never debated by Melbourne Uni. And why were all bids to save it rejected?
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December 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Melbourne University Publishing said it closed Meanjin for “purely financial reasons”. But why did the university rebuff the many offers from parties trying to save the magazine?
The laws and institutions we rely on to protect us have been exposed by the Bondi atrocity. Politics could prevent us from fixing them, writes Bernard Keane.
Bondi exposed huge holes in our security framework. The right's 'distraction' narrative will endanger all Australians
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December 17, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The laws and institutions we rely on to protect us have been exposed by the Bondi atrocity. Politics could prevent us from fixing them, writes Bernard Keane.
Labor’s fiscal policy is pretty much: keep lifting spending, and keep playing tricks with tax revenue to make things look better than they are. Bernard Keane writes.
Labor is on a spending splurge. Only higher taxes are keeping the deficit to merely bad
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December 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Labor’s fiscal policy is pretty much: keep lifting spending, and keep playing tricks with tax revenue to make things look better than they are. Bernard Keane writes.
Opinion | John Howard's reemergence after the Bondi Beach shooting should have been comforting for gun control advocates. Instead, the former PM risks tarnishing his own legacy.
The living ghost of John Howard: Pain hits, then opportunism strikes
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December 17, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Opinion | John Howard's reemergence after the Bondi Beach shooting should have been comforting for gun control advocates. Instead, the former PM risks tarnishing his own legacy.
Just hours after the attack, someone created a cryptocurrency coin named after the shooting’s youngest victim that it claims will “honor her memory, so her legacy can live on-chain forever”.
How grifters and scammers are using crypto and fake fundraisers to profit off the Bondi Beach shooting
Just hours after the attack, someone created a cryptocurrency coin named after the shooting's youngest victim so 'her legacy can live on-chain forever'.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Just hours after the attack, someone created a cryptocurrency coin named after the shooting’s youngest victim that it claims will “honor her memory, so her legacy can live on-chain forever”.
Ignore Labor’s spin — our fiscal situation is bad, and driven by a government that can’t stop increasing spending, writes Bernard Keane.
Labor is on a spending splurge. Only higher taxes are keeping the deficit to merely bad
www.crikey.com.au
December 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Ignore Labor’s spin — our fiscal situation is bad, and driven by a government that can’t stop increasing spending, writes Bernard Keane.
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This is the way #Meanjin ends — not with a bang but a whimper.
New FOI story from me for @crikey.com.au:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/17/m...
New FOI story from me for @crikey.com.au:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/17/m...
FOI docs reveal Meanjin axing never debated by Melbourne Uni. And why were all bids to save it rejected?
The University of Melbourne's finance committee didn't invite members to question the closure of the 85-year-old literary journal, instead only waving it through. Meanwhile, all external offers to sav...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This is the way #Meanjin ends — not with a bang but a whimper.
New FOI story from me for @crikey.com.au:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/17/m...
New FOI story from me for @crikey.com.au:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/17/m...
How did the unconfirmed, and ultimately false, claims of a second shooting in Sydney’s eastern suburbs come to be reported on the night of the Bondi attack?
How the false story of a second Bondi shooting spread via Channel 7 and social media
Amid the horrors at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday night, false reports of a second shooting at Dover Heights quickly began to spread.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
How did the unconfirmed, and ultimately false, claims of a second shooting in Sydney’s eastern suburbs come to be reported on the night of the Bondi attack?