Crystal Jane
@crystaljane.bsky.social
Founder & Chief of Everything at Zee Feed zeefeed.com.au Readers' Editor at Crikey crikey.com.au
Good stuff. Thanks @crystaljane.bsky.social and @daanysaeed.bsky.social for looking into these NACC internal emails. Genuinely maddening.
ICYMI: We can’t stop thinking about those NACC emails
Also on Crikey's Cut Through: the web of Australian media nepo babies is more complicated than you might think.
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Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
I love how all short-form video now starts with an even shorter video of the best part of the video, so you don't have to watch the video. Or you get to watch two videos. These are your options!
Most people don't know much about how journalism is done, typically because it's not public or isn't well explained. To help people out, I've put a simple guide to how I do reporting and what you can expect if you contact me. I hope this helps! cameronwilson.com.au...
I am writing this before reading the article and if it does not point out that the cost of living means that comfortably retired boomers with paid off houses and anyone else who’s not paying exorbitant rents are the only ones who can afford to travel, I will press post
ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 4w agoGrey nomads are giving a much-needed boost to outback Queensland towns over the winter tourism season, but locals say more visitors are needed to fuel economic growth.
We counted, so you don’t have to. Insane is the number of things Jillian Segal actually HERSELF conceded she had no evidence for, or backflipped on, but went completely unreported. www.lamestream.com.au/we-counted-a...
We Counted All the Errors in Jillian Segal’s Attack on the ABC and SBS
Jillian Segal wants a new body to vet journalism. If she had submitted her evidence in front of the Royal Commission as an article to a newsdesk, it wouldn’t pass fact-check.
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Incredible how all of the most absolutely wretched garbage people are choosing this hill.
warrior cop@wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 4w ago
The Cut Through podcast is BACK! And we publish on Thursdays now, but I was too busy to post. @rachelwithers.bsky.social and @theshufflediary.bsky.social join me to discuss who is doing The Work in parliament vs who gets The Credit. Watch on YT or any podcast app: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogC_...
Teal, Orange, Green: Who’s holding Labor to account?
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"Now that Stefanovic is freed up...expect more straight-up far-right propaganda and One Nation boosting. This isn’t benign 'sharing of perspectives', it’s a co-ordinated and well-funded political operation." @scottmitchell.bsky.social #auspol www.lamestream.com.au/karl-stefano...
Karl Stefanovic Is No Free Speech Martyr, He's A Political Operative.
Karl immediately runs to YouTube after his exit from Nine is confirmed, and we dive a little deeper into The Daily Aus' Pauline Hanson coverage
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Coroner finds decades-old investigation marred by 'pervasive' racism
Racism, bias led to 'superficial investigation' of teen's death
NSW Coroner's Court has found racial attitudes played a central role in the police investigation into Mark Haines's death 38 years ago.
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Catch me tomorrow on ABC TV Morning Breakfast programme at 7:40am as I'll be speaking live about Pauline Hanson and gender! 👀 #AcademicLife #AusPol
The frustrating part about this is that it's so lazy and singular – just one random person's opinion, whipped into a no-effort "article". No larger trend, movement, nothing at all. I should do more of these counter pieces which is "same guy but on the left says X" www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/09/p...
That army of right-wing young men coming to save Dutton? A mirage
Political commentators got the read on young men very wrong, in part because they would not be swayed from their US-inspired framing.
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Possum@pollytics.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe biggest problem with Australia is that our the media hates the country and everything must be bad always at all times. Here is today's example from just the front page of Murdoch's NewsDotcom. So many examples it needs a thread!
Feeling myself develop a new pet peeve which is the people online who are very smug yet very wrong about what happened in the coverage of the 2016 election in the US and the take aways from it
Critics of multiculturalism in Australia fundamentally don’t get what it is It is a right to cultural identity (within limits), equal opportunity & fair treatment + recognition of the skills/talents of migrants, all within a shared Australian civic framework Food is merely a side benefit #auspol
Pauline didn’t shit her pants on live TV so now she’s a serious contender. Sorry I don’t make the rules
Hanson and her supporters don't care about this btw. In this very speech she has spoken about GENERATIONS of prior migration being something the "Australian" people are unhappy with. They would deport the "undesirable" migrants from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s if they could.
Su Dharmapala ස්රම්රද ධර්මපාල@sudharmapala.bsky.social · 2mo agoJust FYI - more people immigrated under Howard than under Albanese. #NPC
Hanson and her supporters don't care about this btw. In this very speech she has spoken about GENERATIONS of prior migration being something the "Australian" people are unhappy with. They would deport the "undesirable" migrants from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s if they could.
Su Dharmapala ස්රම්රද ධර්මපාල@sudharmapala.bsky.social · 2mo agoJust FYI - more people immigrated under Howard than under Albanese. #NPC
An internal memo, seen by Crikey, said the "difficult decision" had been taken to impact some roles at Pedestrian as part of a restructure. Know more about the future of Pedestrian or the acqusition by Vinyl? Contact me securely on Signal at daanysaeed.44.
Pedestrian Group appears set for redundancies less than a week after Vinyl Group CEO Josh Simons, in announcing Vinyl's acquisition of the company, declared "we are not buying these assets to strip culture for parts".
Top read from @rachelwithers.bsky.social. The response on socials to Spender's decision to vote with Coalition and One Nation against reforms was more negative than I expected. She has been one of the most active in courting the young progressive cohort online, wonder if they will stick with her?
Allegra Spender failed to put her money where her mouth is on tax reform. Now what?
Independent MPs talk a big talk on the need to rein in property tax breaks. But when it came to the crunch, most voted against Labor’s tax reform bill.
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Objectively insane story for the Tele to run, but it perfectly encapsulates the political moment: "When my side does it that's heroic, when my opponents do it they should be jailed". Progressives and right-wingers are flat out pointing out each others' hypocrisies, which literally does not matter.
Pointing out hypocrisy in politics doesn’t work
Pauline Hanson is a hypocrite. Who actually cares about that?
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Travis Jordan@grugstan.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Tele out today with a bold “ban election campaigning” stance
Lots of talk of life satisfaction in Australia being worse now than during COVID. I hate to be the bearer of bad news/reality, but it’s a beat up. There’s NO appreciable difference between 2020 and 2025 rates. Decline since 2014 is a worry though. www.abs.gov.au/statistics/p...
Today we launched a dive into the "less lethal" weapons some police are using against crowds in Australia—and about which very little is publicly known. These are projectiles that release powder designed to burn the eyes and throat. Flashbang grenades. Teargas. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know about
Launchers that shoot ‘bullet-like missiles’, chemical irritants and stinger grenades: experts say these weapons can cause serious injury or even death. But they are deployed by police against crowds w...
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The AFR has invented a bunch of parties that do not exist and said that these parties provided preference flows to One Nation in the SA election: the "Family Guardian Association", "Liberal Catholic Party" and "Unified Victoria/United Veterans". Very very odd.
Gov schtum on Albo-Karl interview, the Fin fumbles its flows, and Pickering skips out
Plus Chris Uhlmann continues his tried and trusted tradition of flogging a pseudo-intellectual horse to death.
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In a week of yet another racist controversy, a piece about the burden of being social media fodder in despairing times, and the challenge to keep going. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/the-exhaus...
The Exhaustion of Being the Content
The quiet labour of First Nations people during racist controversies.
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In the intial coverage of Australia's latest fertility rate figures, there was no discussion of the biggest factor — feminist progress. Fertility rate is not solely an economic metric, it's an expression of reproductive autonomy! #auspol
You can't talk about the birth rate without the F word: Feminism
Australia's declining fertility rate is an economic issue. But it's also a choice – and that's a good thing.
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3.7m Australians live in poverty, including 757k children under 15. 1 in 3 households experienced food insecurity last year, meaning they stressed about or struggled to put food on the table. Australia's billionaires increased their wealth by almost $50k a minute.
Australia’s 178 billionaires are $25.7bn richer than last year as 3.7 million live in poverty
Oxfam finds the 20 richest Australians now hold more wealth than the bottom 3 million households
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