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Crikey team as associate editor. I’ll be diving into stories that are at the intersection of the internet, politics and Australian culture like the tale of why outgoing maverick MP George Christensen is suddenly promoting books on Amazon.
One of the biggest stories this week was the backlash to the government’s India travel ban a ban that, as Bernard Keane wrote, seemed very much like a dog-whistle that blew up in the prime minister’s mouth.
And speaking of the prime minister, David Hardaker got his hands on a copy of ScoMo’s honors thesis. The document, written when Morrison was 21, reveals his plan for how the Christian Brethren could influence Australian society. Prescient stuff for a future PM.
This week marked the 106th anniversary of the landings at Gallipoli and the 25th anniversary of the Port Arthur massacre, with the memorial service for the latter covered beautifully by Charlie Lewis.
But while the occasions saw many gathering to remember lives lost, politicians took the moment to warn more conflict may be brewing a task Peter Dutton and Mike Pezzullo relished, as Kishor Napier-Ramen wrote. Bernard Keane and Guy Rundle also found that it was a convenient explanation for a big budget spend.
Meanwhile, I covered Andrew Laming and the old boys club’s predictable pivot to claiming victimhood, Napier-Ramen took a look at Assistant Attorney-General Amanda Stoker’s issue with anti racism, and Adam Schwab examined the flaws in JobKeeper. Lewis spent the week in Tasmania digging into today’s state election, Christopher Warren took a look at the Morrison government’s climate-change cover up, and
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Hypocrisy, insincerity and bigotry: not exactly light topics to kick off your weekend, but they’re words that describe how this week went down.
Bernard Keane covered how Prime Minister Scott Morrison tried to distract us all from the dying planet with a dig at “inner-city wine bar elites” (perhaps forgetting there’s a wine bar underneath his own electorate office). The Coalition admitted coal is killing the planet but denied the government had any duty of care for those affected, while Morrison’s campaign for extra funding for fossil fuel power and carbon capture was eaten up by the media.
The Government’s Terrible Milkshake Ad Misses The Point Of Consent Education
Young people in Australia right now are looking for a comprehensive understanding of consent and sexual assault. These videos do not provide that.
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When a government authority shares information, it should be appropriate, tested and reliable. However, as we’ve seen in recent years, the Australian government has a poor track record regarding resourcing information about consent and respectful relationships.
We’ve seen un-actioned national plans, gutted community services to provide consent teaching and training, and a very haphazard promotion of primary prevention materials. There have been endless promotional materials. While we’ve had the answers for a long time, the series of sexual assault allegations within parliament have renewed a focus on conversations around gender equ