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On October 24, five police officers turned up on Jasmine Duff’s doorstep. Despite not having a warrant, Duff claims they insisted on coming into the house to look for her. “They walked into my room as I was climbing out of bed and placed me under arrest,” Duff tells Crikey. “One officer stayed in the […]
Donald Trump walked out onto the floor of the Republican National Convention in July to James Brown’s It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World. Pundits have noted that although Kamala Harris has campaigned hard on reproductive rights, she hasn’t mentioned the f-word, wearing “the various aspects of her identity lightly”. Although she would be the nation’s […]
Would it all have turned out differently had InterActiveCorp stared down the online mob? In December 2013, a public relations executive with the company, Justine Sacco, posted a joke on social media, satirising American insularity and racism. Sacco was about to board a flight to South Africa, from where her anti-apartheid family had emigrated, when […]
High-speed rail has the potential to transform a country by slashing commute times and emissions. But it ain’t cheap. After decades of debate the Albanese government established a High-Speed Rail Authority in 2022 and committed to a $500 million plan for a high-speed rail corridor between Sydney and Newcastle. The dream is for a network […]