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IN THE NEWS Anthony Albanese switches to election footing with blitz of three campaign battlegrounds (Guardian Australia) — Inevitably we start 2025 as we finished 2024, with everyone talking about the election. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is apparently signalling “the unofficial start of the campaign” with the PM travelling to electorates across Queensland, the Northern […]
In early 2022 I unblocked Crikey’s political editor Bernard Keane on Twitter. I figured it was only polite before I began editing him. He graciously unblocked me too and neither of us acknowledged it. Little did I know, the first thing that would surprise me at Crikey was that Keane wasn’t the grumpy old bastard […]
The Press Council considered a complaint from Yoti Ltd concerning an article published by Crikey on 14 June 2024, headed “I tricked a selfie AI age-verification tool into letting a child ‘buy’ a knife” (Online). The article’s subheading said that “Governments are looking at using AI to estimate people’s age using a selfie. I fooled it […]
Abusive WIN employee resigns A WIN sales employee has resigned following a Crikey tip into his now-deleted abusive social media accounts. An X account that appeared to be linked to the employee abused sporting and media personalities dating back to October 2023. ‘Shameful’: Fox Sports executive’s secret abusive Twitter account revealed Read More Following questions […]