Opinion: Pauline Hanson Stays Relevant Because the Media Makes Sure of It
'Pauline Hanson and what she represents have been a spectre looming over me not just throughout my entire career, but also many life milestones and memories.'
'Pauline Hanson and what she represents have been a spectre looming over me not just throughout my entire career, but also many life milestones and memories.'
Victoria is buzzing with outrage over youth crime as the state rolls out its punitive “adult time for violent crime” laws. It feels like the predictable final act of a media-stoked and politicised crime panic used to justify swelling police powers.
Ette Media can reveal how parts of the tabloid and commercial press managed to spin a fake letter about a mosque into a real panic, whipping up outrage over a story with shaky foundations.
Our live show tickets are now open to the general public for purchase (subscribers got first dibs).
Canadian-Egyptian author Omar El Akkad on individual complicity, resistance and the role of the press.
Lattouf delivers a eulogy for the spine - an increasingly endangered structure that's meant to hold us upright when powerful interests want us bent. It's also a love letter to the vertebrae that refuse to change shape.
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges reflects on his run-ins with the local media in Australia, and what it reveals about press courage (or the lack of it). Plus a chat on the future of journalism, and what Palestinian journalists have taught him about our craft.
Independent media you can wear. Jan Fran and Antoinette Lattouf launch new, sustainably made merch.
Ette Media can also reveal it wasn’t just Albanese’s number - other private details about the PM are still online.
The personal mobile phone number of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese - along with the numbers of several high-profile Australians in media and business - has been published on a publicly accessible third-party website, in what appears to be a widespread privacy breach.
Melbourne University Publishing says shutting one of Australia’s longest-running literary outlets was a “purely financial” decision. But the story (and numbers) don’t add up. We can reveal an offer of a cash injection is on the table. So what's the real reason for its closure?
Saturated coverage of Charlie Kirk's shooting, an existential crisis in front of high school students and Lattouf v ABC back in Federal Court.