Bernard Keane offers the Prime Minister a few thoughts on how to resolve the Oceanic Viking stand-off.
Pilger: The great Australian silence
The great atheist debate
No sex education in China = 13 million abortions
Why Murdoch wants to destroy the NY Times
Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be “raped with broken bottles” in Uzbekistan
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Tips and rumours: When’s Tassie election date?
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Melbourne Uni Arts faculty anger at Dean’s re-appointment
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Simons: Highlights and lowlights of Media 140
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The long, plodding March of Patriots
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Talking the Town: John Pilger receives the Sydney Peace Prize
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Memo Rudd: an asylum solution
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Today’s First Dog on the Moon
Top Stories
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‘… on a remote island, behind razor wire’: how the New York Times sees us
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Youth still to be seen but not heard
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Why Karadzic is not getting a fair trial
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A neighbourly disinterest
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‘Bludge’ day? Not bloody likely
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Don’t demonise the food industry for causing obesity
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The ABC and Australia’s strategic policy — playing our part
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Photo galleries of drunk people at the Melbourne Cup
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Why wear the fox hat at the Oaks, I asked?
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Hey Victorian government, leave Britney alone!
Politics, The Universe, Etc
Media/Arts/Sport
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Murdoch and Ramsay join for MasterfuckingChef
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Separated at birth? … Murdoch’s Moby Dick
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Getaway gives it to Nine
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Rupert’s pay-up model for newspapers on the back-burner
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RBA lifts growth forecasts as economy on the up and up
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Insider trading: 14 more, including Octopussy, arrested on Wall St
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Wall St up 204, Dow up 211
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The fast train to nowhere
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Clash of the media titans at Media140
Business
Your Say
Crikey Says
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From stone throwing kids to online activists: the e-Palestine movement
Palestinians have figured out one the most effective methods of mobilising the youth: bringing their activism online. They foster an international diaspora and avoid the traditional Hamas and Fatah tensions and talk in chat rooms. Can they mimic the success of Obama’s online campaign?
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The blockage in our skilled migration pipeline
Tens of thousands of highly skilled would-be migrants are living in Australia, unable to contribute their skills to the country’s labour force due to bureaucracy and bad policy. The government happily accepts their application fees, but offers little in return.
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Why Karadzic is not getting a fair trial
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s plea to be allowed more time to prepare his defence against serious of charges, including two counts of genocide, is in fact an entirely legitimate one.
The untold story behind the words that rocked the Obama campaign
New York Times: Australia fears boat people from Asia
Kerr: Rudd gets in a refugee spin-
Crikey Says: Clash of the media titans at Media140
A certain slack-jawed wonderment ran around the room at yesterday’s Media140 conference in Sydney, when a senior News Ltd journalist rose to spruik the vested corporate interests of her employer…
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Why I quit my job as a national newspaper editor to be a blogger
Why would any self-respecting journo leave their job as an editor at one of the US’s largest national newspapers, the LA Times to work for media gossip site Gawker? To be part of the nation’s “cultural conversation”.
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Google’s next target: Facebook
Google is making moves into the social networking world with a bunch of improvements to its Friend Connect feature. It’s a blatant “declaration of war” on Facebook, says Douglas Rushkoff, and one Google will most likely win.
Stilgherrian: What do journos do better, exactly?
Google Dashboard: what is it and do you really need it?-
How we’re still stuck in a Berlin Wall mindset
East and West Germany were the ultimate economic science experiments, a government controlled economy next to a free market, the free market emerging victorious. But is this black and white look at economics what got us into this GFC mess?
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Why increased worker productivity is bad for the economy
Worker productivity in the US has jumped dramatically by 9.5% in the last quarter. Employees working harder for less hours, just what the boss wants in a recession, right? Except, morale is down, productivity isn’t sustainable and workers are simply covering their colleagues who’ve been fired.
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Fortune has named Apple honcho Steve Jobs as its CEO of the Decade, and has gone all-out in its celebration of all-thing-Steve. Here’s the interactive timeline, celebrity tributes and the obligatory photo gallery.
Kohler: How the collapsing US$ will damage Copenhagen-
Can sexing up science save the planet?
The ABC has a great analysis on the Timor Sea oil spill and how the mainstream media only started paying attention once the leaking rig burst into flames. Endangered marine life? Pah. Big explosions?! Now you’re talking! Does the environmental movement need to start finding sexier angles to sell journos on their causes?
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The UK advertising regulator has banned an ad by the Malaysian Palm Oil Council claiming that palm oil is ‘sustainable’ and contributes to ‘the alleviation of poverty, especially amongst rural populations’, reports Andrew Bartlett.
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All public events tend to make a bit of a mess, but some are worse than others. Newsweek looks at some of the biggest garbage-generating events on the planet, including NASCAR, Glastonbury and the Olympics.
One in five mammals now face extinction
Copenhagen is coming, lower your expectations
PHOTO GALLERY: Sperm whale nibbles on a giant squid-
Hey Victorian government, leave Britney alone!
A Britney Spears concert is presumably a mass of gyrating, fireworks and lip-syncing. But the Victorian government wants concert goers to be made aware when music isn’t technically ‘live’. Do we really need to be protected?
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Is this Crikey’s funniest ever press release? Join Concerned Tasmanians for Jason Krejza (CT4JK), a lobby group aimed at getting Tassie spin bowler Jason Krejza selected for the Aussie side.
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The documentary of Michael Jackson’s concert-that-never-was, This Is It might be smashing box office records around the world, but the film’s lack of commentary, insight and context will make it a struggle for most to sit through, says Luke Buckmaster. One for the fans.
David Nutt: Governments should get real on drugs
