For several years now Crikey has engaged in the ritual denunciation of our Commonwealth electoral donation laws. It’s worth repeating.
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Rundle12: vigorous primaries toughen candidates like fire tidies a room
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Tips and rumours
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Bernard Keane’s month in politics
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The Power Index: the most powerful thinker is … Julian Assange
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Gina Rinehart definitely doesn’t like the internet
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More evidence of why donation disclosure laws are hopeless
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Better Access program: success in whose interests?
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Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status at risk of being lost
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Today’s First Dog on the Moon
TOP STORIES
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Rinehart and mysterious ways of new media
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Evidence of how politicians lie
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How can public transport work better in Australia’s cities?
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Dudgeon: constitution helps undo silence harming Aboriginal Australia
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Moscow protests: authorities’ gloves may come off
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Mayne v Andrews: big parties awash with pokies cash
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Aussie film v Schembri … ACMA probes 7.30 … editor reshuffle at ACP
Crikey Says
POLITICS, THE UNIVERSE, ETC
MEDIA/ARTS/SPORT
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Excess Baggage a dead weight for Nine
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Leave the glamour to Hollywood and celebrate niche
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Why Muriel Heslop is not as dumb as the AFR
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Markets down, US interest rates to remain low
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Brussels is summit of a contrast, Trappist bier notwithstanding
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Maley: a Greek writedown chain reaction?
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Gillard’s message is lost
BUSINESS
COMMENTS, CORRECTIONS, CLARIFICATIONS, AND C*CKUPS
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The Power Index
Julian Assange: Australia’s most powerful thinker
Townsville’s most famous former computer hacker is changing how the media and diplomats operate. Julian Assange speaks Tom Cowie about the role of WikiLeaks and its power.
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Meet Haiti’s 1%
Haiti is known as a country wrecked with poverty and struggling to survive after the disasterous earthquake of 2010. But there’s a lot of rich people — mainly families who migrated from Europe a centruy earlier — calling the island home.
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Mayne v Andrews: big parties awash with pokies cash
Pokies industry donations for 2010-11 got a brief mention in yesterday’s coverage and they certainly make for interesting reading when totalled up.
Death, violence and protests: chaos continues in Egypt
The risk of leaving Afghanistan early-
Media briefs: Aussie film v Schembri … ACMA probes 7.30 … editor reshuffle at ACP
In today’s Media Briefs: Aussie comedy takes aim at Age critic Jim Schembri (again) … ACMA to investigate 7.30 Clarke and Dawe sketch, editor reshuffle at ACP and more …
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Crikey Says: Rinehart and mysterious ways of new media
Our newest media mogul is a keen observer of the online medium. And she’s not a fan.
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Adjectives v nouns in Fin Review ‘blacks’ debate
The Fin Review’s new ed Michael Stutchbury thought it was fine to use the word ‘blacks’ in a headline, citing the ABC’s “black deaths in custody” series. But they are not the same kind of, writes linguist Greg Dickson.
Parliament House filter blocks all .info sites
How Facebook makes billions of dollars-
Few veteran film critics are as internet savvy as Lynden Barber. But The Australian film reviewer, who also files for SBS online, tells Luke Buckmaster watching films for a living is not always as fun as it looks.
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W H Chong and companion Constant Gardener were scurrying to the Galeries Lafeyette when they started seeing spots: a sudden, exquisite snow shower.
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The horrors of urban renewal and freeway building and the obsession with replacing “slums” with towers and “grass, grass, grass” are discussed in Jane Jacobs’ famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” writes Alan Davies.
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Maley: a Greek writedown chain reaction?
Global equity markets have enjoyed the best start to the year since 1994, but their euphoric mood is about to be sorely tested.
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aviation industry
It is intriguing to see the media regurgitate announced Qantas surcharges for oil prices and carbon taxes when deals have made them irrelevant in terms of international flights, writes Ben Sandilands.
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Bitter Rinehart feud goes public
Crikey media wrap: A bitter family dispute between mining-magnate-turned-media-mogul Gina Rinehart and three of her four children has become public after a supression order was lifted yesterday.
Should Woolworths consolidate Dick Smith?-
An official fighting fund for climate scientists battling freedom of information requests from well-funded climate denier think tanks has been established in the United States, 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.
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And today in Correspondence…
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A series of anxious vignettes
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The Perfect Derp Storm
There are two versions of this cartoon because somehow I widened the original file without noticing so i had “much more space” to put words and didn’t even notice the writing was tiny. So I redid it properly sized with bigger writing. Now there are two. Eric Beecher has asked the AFP to investigate.
