19 Feb 2025

Australia: Media sting gone wrong, insurer crackdown

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 19 February 2025
Lightning seen from Anzac Memorial Bridge on 15 January 2025 in Newcastle, Australia.

 Another damaging storm over Sydney. Opposition leader Peter Dutton wants to crackdown on profiteering insurance companies. Photo: Getty Images / Roni Bintang

Australia correspondent Bernard Keane explores the scandal over the Daily Telegraph's attempted undercover story into "what it's like being Jewish in Sydney".

He'll talk about the RBA's latest interest rate move, and Liberals leader Peter Dutton's comments that the Coalition would move to break up insurance companies found to be gouging policyholders.

And how has New Zealand's 'Everyone must go!' tourism campaign gone down in Australia?

Bernard Keane is political editor for Crikey.com