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Cash v cachet: the wacky world of journalism prizes

Cash v cachet: the wacky world of journalism prizes

Should journalists enter awards run or sponsored by special interest groups? From fragrance reporting to writing on colorectal disease and the mining industry, just about every reporter wins a prize these days …

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Can Iran’s new president enact real change?

Can Iran’s new president enact real change?

Urban, middle-class Iranians hope President-elect Hassan Rouhani will end the oppressive restrictions of the previous regime. But ANU Centre for Islamic Studies academic Brenton Clark cautions against too much optimism.

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Piss and wind: Jones joins fight against pee-shifting turbines

Piss and wind: Jones joins fight against pee-shifting turbines

The landed gentry gathered on Parliament House’s Federation Mall this morning to blame wind farms for falling property prices and urinary disruption.

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Steering the state ship with a Zimmer frame: the world’s oldest leaders

Steering the state ship with a Zimmer frame: the world’s oldest leaders

With Robert Mugabe hoping to be the world’s only nonagenarian head of government, Crikey intern Joanna Robin finds out what other world leaders are making the most of their golden years.

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Barnaby and Albo hug hides division on local govt

The major parties have agreed to push the “yes” case on constitutional recognition of local government, right? Well it’s not so simple, as delegates at a large local government pow-wow in Canberra learnt first-hand.

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Senate committee rejects transparency on export finance billions

The federal government’s controversial Export Finance and Insurance Corporate had escaped reforms aimed at exposing its inner workings to public scrutiny.

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One handout too many: General Motors should go back to Detroit

It’s time to end automotive assistance. General Motors’ demand for a wage cut shows this is one industry not worth keeping, say Crikey’s Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer.

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At last, China gets on board carbon trading

Environmentalists cheered when China announced it would finally put a price on carbon. But as usual, the price is far too low to have any meaningful impact on the country’s vast emissions.

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Fight for suffrage continues, but Supreme Court pulls Arizona into line

In many parts of the supposedly democratic world, there are constant attempts to make voting more difficult. One such attempt in Arizona has been rejected by the Supreme Court, writes Charles Richardson.

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Turkish PM v Twitter: government can’t stop social media tide

Social media has inspired much of the protest movement in Turkey. Now the government wants to unplug the networks. Good luck, writes Turkish-Australian academic Erdem Koc.

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Coalition split on gay exemption aged-care providers don’t want

UPDATED: The Coalition wants to ensure church-run aged care providers can deny beds to gay people. But the organisations tell Crikey they don’t discriminate — and don’t want the protection to do it.

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WHAT WAS SAID:

"If you're going to re-define a word to satisfy demands of a minority then you're going to face continuing demands in that space."

"I belong to a special kind of minority: the completely crazy."

Cory Bernardi
Election Deciders
Forget Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard, who’ll really decide the federal election? The Power Index profiles the influential insiders, flacks and tabloid hacks whose frenzied focus will be firmly fixed
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