Charlie Lewis

On the first day of the royal commission into Victoria's Big Build scandal, its political impact became abundantly clear.

While it's instructive and illuminating in parts, Waleed Aly's Quarterly Essay, Time of Monsters, is ultimately unable to fully interrogate where the threats to liberalism come from.

Share this article If you like this article, share it with your friends. At one time, there was “no Republican Party.

With seven weeks until the Victorian state election, things on the ground are heating up. Crikey went to the state's most tightly held, and hotly contested, seat, to see whether Labor can cling on.

Properly showing how social media has warped our reality clearly remains out of reach, and any happy ending is fundamentally dishonest.

Richard Cooke talks to Crikey about his sprawling and celebratory history of Wikipedia, the largest collection of human knowledge ever created: "Some people have jokingly called the only good thing libertarians have ever made".

Parliament is back, and Crikey's Cut Through podcast has got you covered. Plus, Josh Frydenberg comeback story gets better every time.

The opposition has been going hard on the government for its lack of business experience — which is kind of weird, when you think about it.

Regardless of the motivations behind the attack on Helen Haines, it follows rising threats against Australian politicians in recent years — and more than a decade of simmering rhetoric.

Anthony Albanese has connected the attack on Helen Haines with the impact of social media, the focus of the digital duty of care bill his government is trying to get through parliament. And of course, it's bad for social cohesion, too.