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The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 11mo ago

Not now Justine

Justine McCarthy: I’ve had enough of other people’s rudeness

Nick Feik@nickfeik.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New: A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New: A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?

Who killed Meanjin?

And why won’t Melbourne University Publishing engage with efforts to save it?

crikey.com.au

The Department of Defence has announced a new $467,000 contract with yet another Israeli weapons manufacturer.

Australia hands half a million to Israeli weapons company, Tesla chair's salary, and an AFL star on Charlie Kirk

Plus an Aussie tech founder simply loves the media!

crikey.com.au

Meanjin’s performance and sustainability were the focus of a review commissioned by MUP in February. The final recommendations of the report, which was never released publicly, did not include closing Meanjin.

Who killed Meanjin?

crikey.com.au

"Meanjin’s performance and sustainability were the focus of a review commissioned by MUP. Its report, delivered a month before the publisher’s controversial axing of the 85-year-old journal ... did not include closing Meanjin." —@nickfeik.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/16/m...

Who killed Meanjin?

And why won’t Melbourne University Publishing engage with efforts to save it?

crikey.com.au

A piece from me and Sean Johnson at @openpolitics.bsky.social today on where this parliament is investing. Plenty of graphs for you to play with, have a poke around! www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/16/w...

The company they keep: Where do your MPs invest their salaries? Search our database

See which companies and industries are popular with MPs and their families, and check out parliament’s biggest shareholders.

crikey.com.au

Catriona Menzies-Pike @catrionamp.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Not today cupcake

I wrote for Crikey about the decision to shut Meanjin down - and to sever a connection to a hopeful progressive vision of Australian culture

Crikey@crikey.com.au · 11mo ago

Opinion | Melbourne University Press says it shut down Meanjin for "purely financial reasons". Perhaps the university could have used some of its $273 million surplus to safeguard the seminal journal, @catrionamp.bsky.social‬ writes.

Meanjin's 'financial' shutdown doesn't add up

crikey.com.au

Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Excellent, probing piece today in Crikey by Catriona Menzies-Pike on the closure of Meanjin www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/m...

Meanjin's 'financial' shutdown doesn't add up

Melbourne University reported a $273 million surplus in 2024 on an operating income of $3.2 billion. It is against these figures that the 'purely financial decision' to close Meanjin has raised eyebro...

crikey.com.au

The Death of Meanjin. a couple of thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/greenwor...

The Death of Meanjin

Price of everything, value of nothing dept.

open.substack.com

Great piece by Crikey's readers editor Crystal Andrews today: www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/05/h...

How to report on neo-Nazis without giving them what they want

Media coverage of the anti-immigration marches was a 'propaganda triumph' for Australian neo-Nazis, who use media-baiting tactics to spread their message.

crikey.com.au

Exclusive: Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, Meanjin, is being shut down today for "financial" reasons, Crikey can reveal.

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing

Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

crikey.com.au

This strangely brings me much sorrow but also much joy

wake up new Dan Andrews gif dropped

Bloody (literally) great photo essay of the March for Australia rally in Melbourne by Emily Grace and Alex Zucco for Crikey. www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/01/m...

In pictures: The reality on the ground at Melbourne's anti-immigration March for Australia

'Not my cup of tea,' one anti-immigration protester said of the neo-Nazi presence at the rally. But that didn’t stop attendees from marching behind them.

crikey.com.au

Great piece by Ben Eltham today on implications of the ombudsman's investigation into the system that administers income support payment cancellations for jobseekers: www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/12/a...

Could this be the death of Australia's nightmarish welfare system?

Mutual obligation is one of the last great shibboleths of Australian politics. Now the entire system is under scrutiny with potentially big implications for our welfare system.

crikey.com.au

Excellent piece by Bernard Keane today:

Labor read the room on Gaza. What does that say about our indifference to Palestinians?

Labor's silence on the genocide in Gaza has been simultaneous with its near-total silence on Indigenous affairs since the referendum.

crikey.com.au

New from me on Gretchen Shirm

Out of the Woods by Gretchen Shirm review – a compelling reflection on bearing witness

For her fourth novel, the former lawyer draws on her experience working as a legal intern in the UN tribunal for former Yugoslavia

theguardian.com

Ripper piece from @crystaljane.bsky.social today

Is Peter Dutton aware that women... can vote?

In 2022, Scott Morrison made bungled, offensive comments about women. Three years later, Peter Dutton is just ignoring women altogether.

crikey.com.au

think I've come across possibly the best word