Charlie Lewis
@theshufflediary.bsky.social
Journalist at Crikey, radio at Triple R, extremely intermittent music writing here: dancingtoarchitecture.home.blog
Bigger ideas here: https://meanjin.com.au/essays/pop-music-at-the-end-of-the-world/
Bigger ideas here: https://meanjin.com.au/essays/pop-music-at-the-end-of-the-world/
Today is a good day (as would be any day, tbh) to catch up on @crystaljane.bsky.social conversation with Professor Jenny Hocking on the Dismissal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwSE...
The biggest political scandal in Australian history: The Whitlam Dismissal, 50 years on
YouTube video by Crikey News
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November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Today is a good day (as would be any day, tbh) to catch up on @crystaljane.bsky.social conversation with Professor Jenny Hocking on the Dismissal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwSE...
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In fundamental ways, culture is still locked into the groove Oasis carved out, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.
Oasis' legacy: 30 years later, we're still looking back
www.crikey.com.au
November 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
In fundamental ways, culture is still locked into the groove Oasis carved out, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.
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Chuck Schumer wouldn't even say if he voted for Zohran Mamdani. It does not bode well for the Democrats' future.
Zohran Mamdani: Why did it matter?
www.crikey.com.au
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Chuck Schumer wouldn't even say if he voted for Zohran Mamdani. It does not bode well for the Democrats' future.
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New ep of Cut Through 🎙️ @theshufflediary.bsky.social and I discuss what Zohran Mamdani's win means for a) the fight against Trump, and b) #auspol. I spoke to a bunch of people across the Australian left and share their takes in this ep.
Watch on YouTube.
Listen on Apple, Spotify or in browser.
Watch on YouTube.
Listen on Apple, Spotify or in browser.
Win like Mamdani: Lessons from Zohran’s game changing victory
YouTube video by Crikey News
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November 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Hey guys apropos of nothing do you remember how Malcolm Turnbull kept conceding policies to the hard right of his party and then after years of doing that they knifed him anyway? Guys? Remember that?
Sussan Ley *really* needs to give Malcolm Turnbull a call
www.crikey.com.au
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Hey guys apropos of nothing do you remember how Malcolm Turnbull kept conceding policies to the hard right of his party and then after years of doing that they knifed him anyway? Guys? Remember that?
Absolutely unerring aim from @daanysaeed.bsky.social -- I'd call the piece merciless if the subject didn't put that word into proper context:
"Dick Cheney shaped our world for the worse, and profited immensely from it".
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/05/d...
"Dick Cheney shaped our world for the worse, and profited immensely from it".
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/05/d...
Dick Cheney shaped our world for the worse, and profited immensely from it
Former US vice president Dick Cheney, dead at 84, leaves a sordid legacy of war profiteering and torture advocacy.
www.crikey.com.au
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Absolutely unerring aim from @daanysaeed.bsky.social -- I'd call the piece merciless if the subject didn't put that word into proper context:
"Dick Cheney shaped our world for the worse, and profited immensely from it".
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/05/d...
"Dick Cheney shaped our world for the worse, and profited immensely from it".
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/05/d...
Hey guys apropos of nothing do you remember how Malcolm Turnbull kept conceding policies to the hard right of his party and then after years of doing that they knifed him anyway? Guys? Remember that? www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/05/s...
Sussan Ley *really* needs to give Malcolm Turnbull a call
Hey, remember when Malcolm Turnbull watered down his climate change policy to appease the hard right of his party, how did that work out again?
www.crikey.com.au
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Hey guys apropos of nothing do you remember how Malcolm Turnbull kept conceding policies to the hard right of his party and then after years of doing that they knifed him anyway? Guys? Remember that? www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/05/s...
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In fundamental ways, culture is still locked into the groove Oasis carved out, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.
Oasis' legacy: 30 years later, we're still looking back
www.crikey.com.au
November 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
In fundamental ways, culture is still locked into the groove Oasis carved out, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.
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Oasis' reunion shows have been joyous, and a reminder that guitar music never quite recovered from their influence, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.
Oasis' legacy: 30 years later, we're still looking back
www.crikey.com.au
November 4, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Oasis' reunion shows have been joyous, and a reminder that guitar music never quite recovered from their influence, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.
Could've written maybe five different pieces on Oasis -- some groups just mean a lot to you, in a lot of different directions -- but went with what I see as their cultural legacy www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/04/o...
Oasis' legacy: 30 years later, we're still looking back
Oasis took the (white) musical culture of 1966-76 and mixed into music that evoked a non-specific past; in many ways we're still living in the cultural moment they created.
www.crikey.com.au
November 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Could've written maybe five different pieces on Oasis -- some groups just mean a lot to you, in a lot of different directions -- but went with what I see as their cultural legacy www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/04/o...
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Crikey looks at how film and literature has used various interpretations of AI to interrogate love, art and what it is to be human.
AI in culture and culture in AI: From Asimov to Eddington
www.crikey.com.au
November 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Crikey looks at how film and literature has used various interpretations of AI to interrogate love, art and what it is to be human.
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New from me: News Corp successfuly lobbied for the teen social media ban on the grounds of "protecting kids mental health".
Yet it has been bullying an 11-year-old child, exposing her to an audience of 400,000+ for ridicule and abuse.
It does this often. Other mainstream media outlets do too.
Yet it has been bullying an 11-year-old child, exposing her to an audience of 400,000+ for ridicule and abuse.
It does this often. Other mainstream media outlets do too.
News Corp wants to 'protect' kids. It's also happy to bully them for its readers
Mainstream media outlets regularly bully primary-school aged children while pretending to care about youth mental health.
www.crikey.com.au
October 31, 2025 at 1:16 AM
New from me: News Corp successfuly lobbied for the teen social media ban on the grounds of "protecting kids mental health".
Yet it has been bullying an 11-year-old child, exposing her to an audience of 400,000+ for ridicule and abuse.
It does this often. Other mainstream media outlets do too.
Yet it has been bullying an 11-year-old child, exposing her to an audience of 400,000+ for ridicule and abuse.
It does this often. Other mainstream media outlets do too.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/31/w... We're very lucky to get some time with Professor Jenny Hocking (and very lucky to have an interviewer as good as @crystaljane.bsky.social to make the most of that time)
'We're very locked down': Jenny Hocking on the Whitlam Dismissal and Australia's lack of transparency
Historian Jenny Hocking tells the Cut Through podcast: 'Every nation needs to look again every now and then at its constitution.'
www.crikey.com.au
October 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/31/w... We're very lucky to get some time with Professor Jenny Hocking (and very lucky to have an interviewer as good as @crystaljane.bsky.social to make the most of that time)
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Tonight on Spin Cycle, we're playing a convo we recorded with Chris Hedges when he was in town. A fascinating chat about journalism in the time of genocide. And, of course, the National Press Club. @3rrrfm.bsky.social 7pm. With @theshufflediary.bsky.social and the voice of @rachelwithers.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Tonight on Spin Cycle, we're playing a convo we recorded with Chris Hedges when he was in town. A fascinating chat about journalism in the time of genocide. And, of course, the National Press Club. @3rrrfm.bsky.social 7pm. With @theshufflediary.bsky.social and the voice of @rachelwithers.bsky.social
More culture writing from me today: Been working away at this piece on AI in Art for a while now, and I'm delighted to have it out in the world:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/30/a...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/30/a...
AI in culture and culture in AI: From Asimov to Eddington
As the government rules out a copyright exemption for AI companies training their models on Australian creative works, Crikey looks at how art and AI have interacted over time.
www.crikey.com.au
October 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
More culture writing from me today: Been working away at this piece on AI in Art for a while now, and I'm delighted to have it out in the world:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/30/a...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/30/a...
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This ROCKS i love it when Charlie gets to Charlie @theshufflediary.bsky.social
Sussan Ley once said she loved the "theatrics" of punk. She seems strangely unaware of what those theatrics were, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.
This Fascist Groove Thing: Sussan Ley, Albo's Joy Division T-shirt and the politics of punk
www.crikey.com.au
October 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM
This ROCKS i love it when Charlie gets to Charlie @theshufflediary.bsky.social
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Sussan Ley once said she loved the "theatrics" of punk. She seems strangely unaware of what those theatrics were, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.
This Fascist Groove Thing: Sussan Ley, Albo's Joy Division T-shirt and the politics of punk
www.crikey.com.au
October 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Sussan Ley once said she loved the "theatrics" of punk. She seems strangely unaware of what those theatrics were, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.
Got into the one bit of the faux outrage over Albanese’s Joy Division shirt that I do find interesting -- the ideas behind early Punk's flirtation with the symbols of extreme right politics, and the battles over racism in rock at the time:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/29/a...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/29/a...
This Fascist Groove Thing: Sussan Ley, Albo's Joy Division T-shirt and the politics of punk
The faux outrage over Albanese's band shirt calls to mind the early battles for the soul (and politics) of punk music.
www.crikey.com.au
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Got into the one bit of the faux outrage over Albanese’s Joy Division shirt that I do find interesting -- the ideas behind early Punk's flirtation with the symbols of extreme right politics, and the battles over racism in rock at the time:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/29/a...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/29/a...
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Exclusive from my colleague Anton Nilsson:
Ecuador's armed forces are using rocket launchers to attack illegal miners operating at a site licensed to a subsidiary of Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting
www.crikey.com.au/20...
Ecuador's armed forces are using rocket launchers to attack illegal miners operating at a site licensed to a subsidiary of Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting
www.crikey.com.au/20...
October 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Exclusive from my colleague Anton Nilsson:
Ecuador's armed forces are using rocket launchers to attack illegal miners operating at a site licensed to a subsidiary of Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting
www.crikey.com.au/20...
Ecuador's armed forces are using rocket launchers to attack illegal miners operating at a site licensed to a subsidiary of Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting
www.crikey.com.au/20...
Incredible story here from @antonnilssonn.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/28/g...
Gina Rinehart's goldfields become battle zone as Ecuadorian military deploys rocket launchers
Videos posted to social media show Ecuadorian soldiers blasting a hillside with a BM-21 rocket launcher.
www.crikey.com.au
October 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Incredible story here from @antonnilssonn.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/28/g...
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Malcolm Fraser wanted a new party that's basically 'the progressive Libs' – you could say we now have that in community indies.
But can a structured party do things an indie coalition can't? BK & I discuss on the pod.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXfQ...
Listen on Apple, Spotify, etc #auspol
But can a structured party do things an indie coalition can't? BK & I discuss on the pod.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXfQ...
Listen on Apple, Spotify, etc #auspol
The Fraser Manifesto: A former prime minister's plan to replace the Liberal party
YouTube video by Crikey News
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Malcolm Fraser wanted a new party that's basically 'the progressive Libs' – you could say we now have that in community indies.
But can a structured party do things an indie coalition can't? BK & I discuss on the pod.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXfQ...
Listen on Apple, Spotify, etc #auspol
But can a structured party do things an indie coalition can't? BK & I discuss on the pod.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXfQ...
Listen on Apple, Spotify, etc #auspol
The devastating, lyrical "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" is as good a book about our current moment as I've read, and @jessielilley.bsky.social @rachelwithers.bsky.social and I are so lucky to have Omar El Akkad on Spin Cycle tonight.
Join us from 7pm on @3rrrfm.bsky.social
Join us from 7pm on @3rrrfm.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The devastating, lyrical "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" is as good a book about our current moment as I've read, and @jessielilley.bsky.social @rachelwithers.bsky.social and I are so lucky to have Omar El Akkad on Spin Cycle tonight.
Join us from 7pm on @3rrrfm.bsky.social
Join us from 7pm on @3rrrfm.bsky.social
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Tonight on Spin Cycle on @3rrrfm.bsky.social we are talking to Omar El Akkad about his incredible book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. Tune in 7pm with @rachelwithers.bsky.social and @theshufflediary.bsky.social - on air, on the app, online or on catch up rrr.org.au
October 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Tonight on Spin Cycle on @3rrrfm.bsky.social we are talking to Omar El Akkad about his incredible book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. Tune in 7pm with @rachelwithers.bsky.social and @theshufflediary.bsky.social - on air, on the app, online or on catch up rrr.org.au
Something comparatively fun from me today -- what do you do after you've very publicly nicked something extremely valuable and recognisable?
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/23/t...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/23/t...
So, you've robbed the Louvre. Now what?
Thieves have stolen the French Crown Jewels from the Louvre. What now? You can't exactly take Queen Hortense's tiara to a pawn shop.
www.crikey.com.au
October 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Something comparatively fun from me today -- what do you do after you've very publicly nicked something extremely valuable and recognisable?
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/23/t...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/23/t...