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Around the world in 2024, there was a continuing sense that the institutions we rely on were relentlessly failing us. So perhaps it’s unsurprising that it was a fearless piece of old-fashioned investigative journalism, exposing serious allegations against a powerful man, that prompted our readers to award a comfortable victory to Crikey’s 2024 person of […]
It’s amazing it took this long. We looked back over the past 14 years of Crikey awards, allocating our readers’ choices for Arsehat of the Year and were shocked by a major omission: Gina Rinehart, the Trumpette, satirist and mining heiress magnate had never been directly nominated (she received a few honourable mentions), let alone […]
While other media outlets suck up to the rich and powerful under the guise of doing a “list”, this year Crikey wants to recognise a higher honour: being a shitstirrer. We’ve assembled our inaugural 2024 Shitstirrers Index for the 10 biggest nuisances to powerful people, drawn from more than 1,000 nominations from our readers (let’s […]