Nominations now open for Crikey’s 2025 Shitstirrer of the Year

When we started the planning process for the 20th anniversary of our establishment cricket The awards and discussion naturally turned to who could win what.

As Charlie Lewis wrote of his experience poring over the archives, the awards serve as a snapshot of the year in politics and tell only one version of Australian history. cricket He would or could have said. Old categories naturally come to an end and new ones emerge; which is indicative of what might wearily be called the “state of things.”