As Freud mused, the more we are oriented in the world of real things, the less purchase the uncanny has on us. In the era of AI, we are slipping evermore into the unheimlich.

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

Basketball Australia’s Pixellot rollout is putting women and children at risk – and players are paying for it

Basketball Australia’s Pixellot rollout is putting women and children at risk – and players are paying for it

The Albanese government is treating the promises of AI and data centre investment like a digital mining boom. How does it sit within Labor's broader social project?

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.

Plus: Which politician told us, "If I was invited to speak somewhere and someone believed in Joseph Stalin, I really couldn’t give a fuck.”

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.

At one time, there was "no Republican Party. Just Trump". Now, as the 2026 midterms approach, a sudden independence seems to be infecting GOP candidates.

As New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield writes, staff cartoonists used to be the only ones in the building paid to point at the building. Everyone else eventually answers to the owner, but they…

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.

European diplomats say they were surprised and disappointed that Australia baulked at joining a UK-led move to impose trade sanctions on West Bank Israeli businesses.

Rather than respond to our enquiries, the One Nation MP hit the phones to other media.

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's "End Times Fascism" arrives just in time for another panic about the destructive potential of artificial intelligence.

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's "End Times Fascism" arrives just in time for another panic about the destructive potential of artificial intelligence.

Here’s a question you’ve probably never asked yourself: Why does Nauru Airlines exist? There’s a simple answer – Australia’s offshore detention regime. Australia’s “resettlement” program in Naoero req...

The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.

There are all sorts of traps you can fall into when addressing the Independent Commission Against Corruption. Here's Crikey's handy guide to preparing for the experience.

Here’s a question you’ve probably never asked yourself: Why does Nauru Airlines exist? There’s a simple answer – Australia’s offshore detention regime. Australia’s “resettlement” program in Naoero req...

The horror of that day presaged a quarter of a century of shrinking civil rights and expanded surveillance in the name of Australia’s national security.

The horror of that day presaged a quarter of a century of shrinking civil rights and expanded surveillance in the name of Australia’s national security.

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From non-existent doctors to dodgy supplements that promise to "clean your vagina", there is an overwhelming deluge of AI-generated content targeting new mothers and spreading misinformation.

Spending an evening with Street Side Medics, who administer healthcare to people experiencing homelessness in Victoria and across Australia.

Spending an evening with Street Side Medics, who administer healthcare to people experiencing homelessness in Victoria and across Australia.

YouTube video by Crikey News

"What we've experienced is a fraction of what the women in the film have been through."

Will the AUKUS public inquiry yield any practical outcomes, or is it simply a demonstration of how policy interrogation should be done?

Shifting the emphasis from individuals upholding privacy standards to harmful and invasive business practices is the right move. But an existing carve-out undermines it.

Following Tupac and Biggie's deaths, scores of suspects and witnesses were killed and rumours immediately billowed out like smoke. Why do these conspiracy theories hold so much sway?

It started as an inquiry into issues plaguing regional Australia, but the Bush Summit has become increasingly corporatised and a platform for political campaigning, attendees say.

He made one perfect film, then spent the rest of his career gleefully expanding on every element that made it great.

He made one perfect film, then spent the rest of his career gleefully expanding on every element that made it great.

Donald Trump has come back from all manner of disasters during his time in politics. But are the talents that allowed him to do so waning?

YouTube video by Lewis Hewitt

Dolly Parton pulled off her many contradictions — kitsch icon and recognisable human, old soul and distinctly modern figure — because above all, she was an astonishing musician.

Comedian James Ward's video series features a painstakingly 3D-rendered version of the pool opened in the late prime minister's memory.

The awful human reality of the murder trial was deflated by the granular procedural approach of the appeal hearing, and soon the audience drifted away.

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