On Friday morning The Age published two opinion pieces by Jewish Australians on the topic of Israel’s war in Gaza. Framed as an attempted “debate”, the two stories instead came across as a reminder of how willing The Age (and most Australian outlets) is to publish pro-Israel voices (Jewish
In the past week it feels like there's been a shift in terms of the Australian media's coverage of Gaza. The willingness to constantly defer to the Israeli government and the avoidance of certain language deemed taboo by editors, examples we've highlighted on the
First up, thank you. We launched Lamestream a month ago and we're blown away by the response, support, encouragement, feedback and ideas. Leaving our full-time jobs in the media to try and build something new, exciting and independent always felt daunting, but it feels like we made the
The scene is set for maybe Australia's most progressive parliament, but the bad blood between the Labor party and the Greens runs deep and could prevent a progressive agenda really being pursued. Osman Faruqi takes a look at the relationship and whether it can be reset.
It's difficult to imagine a more significant story in our lifetimes that the ongoing invasion and slaughter in Gaza, at the hands of the Israeli government. It's also a story that the Australian media, with very few exceptions, has covered terribly. The media's deference
One of the trickiest things when it comes to writing about elections is avoiding the temptation to over interpret what the results mean and draw out some kind of broad narrative or reflection on the "state of the nation". Why? Well, we only get a real time pulse-check
One of the peculiar ironies about this election is that even though we've been subjected to one of the least inspiring and interesting campaigns in Australian political history, we're probably still likely to end up with one of the most fascinating parliaments ever. While mainstream media
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