Where did Joe’s mojo go?

Joe Hockey has been in a funk since the leadership spill and needs to snap out it for his party’s sake.

Climategate: The Book, written by you

The Guardian is taking crowd-sourcing to a new level: publishing the manuscript for its new book about the hacked climate change emails and asking readers to help write, edit and “peer review” the tome. Great idea or total gimmick?

Abbott keeping mum on real parental views

Despite his new paid parental scheme, Tony Abbot can’t be trusted as a serious supporter of policies for women to combine parenting and paid work. His recent ‘conversion’ is totally superficial, writes Eva Cox.

Property value never falls? Don’t put the house on it

Australians’ household debt levels are world leading. We pay about five-six times our household disposable incomes for our average dream home. This won’t end well.

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    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Putting the soul back into Motown

    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?

  • How Avatar can help your business ideas

    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.

  • How to feed the entire world

    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

  • AFL season 2010 preview: everybody is fantastic

    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.

  • PHOTO GALLERY: The drunkards and junkies of the literary world

    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.

  • 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.

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