The most striking factor of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy protests was the stark difference between reports of the events and the reality, writes Tracker editor Amy McQuire.
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Rundle12: Obama rolls his tanks onto the GOP’s country-club lawns
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Tips and rumours
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Albo, The Australian President, parrots Douglas
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Australia doesn’t need better films, just better distribution
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All’s well in an intelligence community overseeing itself
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The Power Index: thinkers, defence strategist Hugh White at #7
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View from the Tent Embassy: reality v news reports
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Today’s First Dog on the Moon
TOP STORIES
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Choose your own angle on this Oz Day story
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A plain talking politician
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Power Shots: can Can-Do do it? … Oz Day gongs … Fairfax the poet …
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Pickering: feminist is as feminist does
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Does urban sprawl really make us fat?
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Welcome to the bizarro parallel universe that is UK politics
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Roadmap for mental health reform misses bigger picture
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Why is Papua New Guinea so unstable?
Crikey Says
POLITICS, THE UNIVERSE, ETC
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Oz Day protests, rejected Bloomberg Romney cover, FBI & social media
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When the Dotcom bubble burst, my (legal) Megauploads vanished
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On the call for a return to an Australian canon
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Dannii Minogue’s cousin quite the PR star
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US markets down on interest rate news
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Doom-laden forecasts rejected by central banking heavy hitter
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The People’s Question
MEDIA/ARTS/SPORT
BUSINESS
COMMENTS, CORRECTIONS, CLARIFICATIONS, AND C*CKUPS
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Crikey Clarifier: Why is Papua New Guinea so unstable?
Yesterday around 100 troops, led by former Colonel Yaura Sasa, took the commander of the Papua New Guinea armed forces, General Francis Angwi, hostage. How unstable is the country, asks Adrian Dowie?
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Roadmap for mental health reform misses bigger picture
Those who bemoan a lack of mental health services in disadvantaged areas, or outside the major cities, may find reasons for hope, writes Dr Matt Fisher, a research officer at the Southgate Institute for Health, Society & Equity.
Australia Day kerfuffle all about judgement, or lack thereof
Ian Plimer: the poster boy for seething shock jocks-
Dannii Minogue’s cousin quite the PR star
We receive a lot of press releases. Most are useless, but one popped up overnight from Lauren Jones, an Aussie girl who works for gossip site Perez Hilton, which we thought deserved wider attention. But not exactly for the right reasons…
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Media briefs: Oz Day protests, rejected Bloomberg Romney cover, FBI & social media
In today’s Media Briefs: Bloomberg’s amazing — and rejected — Romney cover … FBI wants to monitor social media … Front Page of the Day and more ..
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Google privacy changes: they just got evil
This week Google announced a major change in policy, with users soon to be tracked across all its services. Such a move proves the company no longer take heed of its famous ‘Don’t Be Evil’ mantra, writes Mat Honan.
Could Google+ revolutionise TV broadcasting?-
My Cup Of Tea: Australia doesn’t need better films, just better distribution
Australian films only took 3.9% of the domestic box office last year. The Adelaide Film Festival’s outgoing director Katrina Sedgwick argues the entire business model of cinema is changing fast.
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True blue books need a home: a call for a return to the Australian canon
Australia’s culture cringe still lingers, particularly in literary circles. Classic Australian novels risk being lost in the absence of reprints and a dearth of university courses makes matters worse. Bethanie Blanchard discusses.
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podcast
John Richards talks to comedy blogger Matt Smith about Outland, an upcoming ABC comedy series about a gay science fiction club.
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Gottliebsen: facing off against a jobs raid
Global hedge funds and the capital markets are engaged in a two-pronged game to skyrocket Australian unemployment, writes Robert Gottliebsen, at Business Spectator.
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aviation industry
There is a parallel argument about the importance of China to the future of any Australian airline, and the last two Qantas CEOs have convincingly endorsed that.
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IMF offers grim growth
predictionsCrikey media wrap: Christine Lagarde, chief of the International Monetary Fund, likened current economic conditions to the Great Depression overnight, with new IMF figures predicting a downturn in global growth.
Should Woolworths consolidate Dick Smith?
How startups can take on the big guys
Kodak’s almost dead, and digital is the box they’ll bury it in-
A leading groundwater experts has slammed the latest Murray Darling Basin draft plan as “major u-turn” from the 2010 guide, with new increases to groundwater extraction in the basin, writes Amber Jamieson.
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European football’s rise of the collectivist spirit
In European football, big budgets and big spending are normally equated to success, but this season various smaller clubs are making the most of what they’ve got, and they’re proud of it.
