Joe Hockey has been in a funk since the leadership spill and needs to snap out it for his party’s sake.
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Tips and rumours: another fatality again at BHP Billiton
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How to make iced tea
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Cook up a new signature dish
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Music copyrights and wrongs: money hits the right note, doesn’t it?
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A quarter-billion dollar rort and the media plays dead. Wonder why?
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Where did Joe’s mojo go?
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Today’s First Dog on the Moon
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For the love of Mike, that’s some paypacket…
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Our back-pedalling PM
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The final 747: Boeing, Boeing, gone
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Advice from Malcolm Tucker: nail the line, Ron Jeremy style
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Great myths in Australian politics: GST almost cost Howard ‘98 election
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Lamenting the old Age: pies, not rucola panini…
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Ironing scoop, Brangelina sue
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Seven, Nine tie as Ten struggles
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Herald Sun between a Rockefeller and a hard place on online discussion
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VCA dean appoints own firm to review Wilin Centre
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Market down as results season enters full swing
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The dollar is travelling well
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Property value never falls? Don’t put the house on it
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Debating a sustainable population
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Advice from Malcolm Tucker: nail the line, Ron Jeremy style
Crikey came up with some scenarios (OK ripped them off from real-life events) for the poisonous Malcolm Tucker from In the Loop to spin. Apologies in advance for the profanity and the lols.
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Take an interactive walk down Haiti’s main street
A clever interactive photo feature at the NY Times allows you to view all the earthquake damage caused to one of Haiti’s main streets, Grande Rue. With stores “cracked open like piñatas”, the damage is distressing.
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Great myths in Australian politics: GST almost cost Howard ‘98 election
The GST didn’t nearly lose John Howard the election in 1998, instead it’s the only reason he stayed in office. Just check out the Newspoll ratings before the GST announcement, says Stephen Spencer.
China’s deadliest weapon: the debt bomb
Hope amongst the horror: Mexico’s miracle babies-
Lamenting the old Age: pies, not rucola panini…
Age journalist Raymond Gill has penned a review, of sorts, of the paper’s new Spencer St home. Former Age employee Michael Vaughan responds.
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MTV officially stops pretending to be about the music
MTV has given its logo a makeover for the first time in about 30 years, officially dropping the “Music Television” tagline to reflect the fact that the channel now mostly plays cheap reality TV shows.
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The internet’s Next Big Thing: a form guide
What will be the next Twitter, YouTube or Skype? Michael Wolff talks to big-name net nerds like Clay Shirky, Jeff Jarvis, Chris Anderson and Jay Rosen, and makes a few predictions of his own.
Google vs. Facebook: game on
Could the internet win a Nobel Peace Prize?-
The final chapter in the 747 story
The latest and final version of the Boeing 747 line of jumbo jets, the 747-8, has taken flight in America, heralding the beginning of the end for the 747 story.
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Once Detroit was a bustling city fuelled by the automobile industry, now it’s a rusting relic of US greed and failure. Beset with racial tensions and closed factories, can agriculture and the film industry save America’s Motown?
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Entrepreneurs could learn a lot from James Cameron’s making of Avatar, writes Megan Berry. Like taking the time to plan an idea correctly (Cameron first wrote Avatar in ‘94) and throwing in a dash of controversy for good measure.
Is the ‘working women need to be pushy bitches’ myth true?-
Britain’s chief scientific adviser and a team of experts have come up with a plan for feeding the world’s 9 billion people. It can be done; but it will require some pretty “radical” changes.t
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Crikey Clarifier: Rudd versus Abbott on climate change: what’s the difference?
So what is on offer from the Government and the Opposition on climate change, and where does the truth lie? Andrew Macintosh explains all the troublesome acronyms.
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Monckton’s Melbourne meeting: a gathering of men in Richie Benaud blazers
What’s it like to attend a Lord Monckton meeting? For the cheering crowd of Old-Australia-RSL-club climate change deniers who flocked to see him, it was like a rock concert.
PHOTO GALLERY: Biodiversity in one square foot-
It’s a great time to be an AFL footy fan. New recruits are valuable additions to the side. Things couldn’t be better. Just don’t let the small matter of the season having not kicked off yet interrupt the reverie, says Neil Walker as he examines the field.
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It may be wrong to glamorise drug and alcohol abuse, but this fascinating gallery of famous literary addicts — with names like Edgar Allan Poe, Phillip K. Dick and Hemingway — show that at least pain does make great art.
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Daily Proposition: Cook up a new signature dish
If you’re stuck in a food rut, why not branch out with something completely new tonight. And no, spag bol shouldn’t be your signature dish past the age of 25 and student housing.
What happened to abortion being the woman’s choice?
