Nicola Roxon’s efforts to establish a process for expanding national security powers has suffered a hiccup, with the powerful Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security asking her to redraft it.
Gotcha! Brooks charged, could face time
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QC announces charges against Rebekah Brooks
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Pyongyang in Brizze … not very appy with The Oz …
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Labor primaries an intellectually lazy answer
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Kohler: Goldilocks and the three shocks
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Gotcha! Rebekah Brooks ‘perverted the course of justice’
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War on privacy: committee sends Roxon back to drawing board
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Rundle: Greece is now the cutting edge of the world
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Today’s First Dog on the Moon
TOP STORIES
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Sun misses a great ‘gotcha’
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Out with the working families
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Craig Thomson continues to get the press
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Why are gene patents so controversial?
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The Urbanist: the pros and cons of congestion charging
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Oke, Kanis to contest bitter byelection battle for Melbourne
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Impending Abbott doom frustrates ACTU conference
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Moving the goalposts on cash splashes and wage cases
Crikey Says
POLITICS, THE UNIVERSE, ETC
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ACMA upholds Sandilands … GetUp! ad snub …
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Bikies turn on viewers, MasterChef cools
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World Championship Chess: king of the chess world, friend to despots
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Oz Council review: smart reform, but will Crean have the cash/courage?
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Markets down again as Greece continues to stutter
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RBA has no idea just how the housing market works
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Lifting the lid on political integrity
MEDIA/ARTS/SPORT
BUSINESS
COMMENTS, CORRECTIONS, CLARIFICATIONS, AND C*CKUPS
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Crikey Clarifier: Why are gene patents so controversial?
Four thousand human genes have already been patented and Melissa Parke and Bill Heffernan want to ban all patents on human genes. Scott Barnes asks the experts on why these patents are so controversial.
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Rundle: Greece is now the cutting edge of the world
Greece is a harbinger of what will happen not merely in Europe, but across the world over the next decade as the vast global superbubble of neoliberalism slowly deflates.
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Francois Hollande sworn in as French president
France’s first Socialistic president in 17 years, Francois Hollande, has been sworn into office before dashing off to Berlin to challenge European austerity measures, reports Reuters.
Endorsing Mitt Romney, Dubya style
Cold politics and core beliefs drove Obama’s same sex endorsement-
Media briefs: ACMA upholds Sandilands … GetUp! ad snub …
In today’s Media Briefs: Front Page of the Day … ACMA upholds Kyle Sandilands ruling … GetUp! anti-supermarket pokies ad refused airtime by TV networks and more …
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Crikey Says: Sun misses a great ‘gotcha’
We’re not saying news of “British beauty” Rebecca Black being thrown into a Dubai jail “after being accused of having naked s-x in the back of a taxi” isn’t a great yarn.
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Is Facebook about to jump the shark?
In Silicon Valley, so they say, only the paranoid survive, and Chris Taylor believes Facebook have many reasons — mostly linked to functionality and advertising appeal — to be concerned.
Obama ‘the first gay president’ (according to Newsweek)-
Meet the Critics: Clint Morris — PR wiz turned film reviewer
In the latest installment of Cinetology’s Meet the Critics series, which examines the viewing habits of the country’s leading film critics, Luke Buckamster interviews legendary web-based reviewer Clint ‘Moviehole’ Morris.
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Introducing novelisation guru Peter David, author of the unappreciated
Peter David’s contributions to the literary landscape aren’t exactly widely respected works — but in the art of the novelisation he is an old and talented hand, writes Charlie Jane Anders.
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video games
The animation in Fez, which resides in a category of video game known as the ‘smart indie’, is a pixel-perfect representation of nostalgic joy but the game itself is hollow, writes Dan Golding.
What makes a psychopath, and could this child be one?-
Kohler: Goldilocks and the three shocks
In the past one to two years, women aged 55-plus have suddenly gone online, en masse … and they control the nation’s purse strings.
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Why a code of conduct won’t change Craig Thomson
A code of conduct will not make a person behave ethically, but a code of ethics might. Kath Walters of LeadingCompany speaks to an ethics expert.
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Will AGL have to choose between green and brown gold?
Many in the clean energy industry are wondering how the AGL Energy managing director can now argue both sides of the energy equation, writes Giles Parkinson of ReNew Economy.
Another setback for Clive’s Queensland mine project
Google set to grow Aussie start-up scene-
Climate change and the Murray-Darling Basin plan are two of the most divisive environmental issues in Australia. But what does the MDBA plan to do about climate change in its Murray-Darling Basin plan? asks David Donaldson.
Dept of Climate Change rebuts Plimer’s book for sceptic kids-
World Championship Chess: mate versus mate in Moscow
For world No.20 Gelfand to beat world champion Anand would be an upset of historic proportions, writes Ian Rogers in Moscow.
The problem with Channel Seven’s AFL coverage
