A team of Rudd Government ministers has attacked Tony Abbott and the Coalition over the blockage of the Government’s bills in the Senate. But is it really obstructionism, or is the Government simply not very good at negotiating with the minor parties? asks Bernard Keane.
Wolff: Why David Cameron will be the next PM of Britain
The secret story behind Windows
Inside Scientology: abortions, beatings and Navy dress-ups
Geraldine Brooks tells America: Australia’s “socialised medicine” saved my life
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Tips and rumours: movement in the NSW ranks
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And now for some witty filler
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Abbott needs to get his policy process in order
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Holding their breath for Palm justice
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The finest 28-year-old I’ve ever met
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‘Threatened’ Tony has opportunity to repent — in budgies
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This day in Crikey: Wednesday, March 10, 2004
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Rundle’s UK: Game on as Labour fights back in the polls
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Victorian patient facing three years of pain in surgery wait
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Today’s First Dog on the Moon
TOP STORIES
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A chance for justice at last in Palm Island inquest
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Abbott’s strange days in the sun
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Labor need to go back to basics
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Question without notice to Abbott: what about parental leave?
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Revealed! The most dangerous man in South Australia
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Ten well-kept secrets about health in Australia
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Battle of the narratives makes for distracting viewing
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SA: raining votes but trust looks like an also-Rann
Crikey Says
POLITICS, THE UNIVERSE, ETC
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ABC takes kids’ TV prime time … Rupert wins praise
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Seven wins as food prevails over hoons
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Cricket Australia to go after big bucks with the Big Bash
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DiMattina gets a lesson in rebranding
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Murdoch has wind … while son James goes ‘very BBC’ … China car sales drop down a cog …
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Warning: RBA to crunch housing boom to save economy from overheating
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Joye: RBA wakes up to the fact affordability battle won on supply side
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Abbott’s tax fraught with problems
MEDIA/ARTS/SPORT
BUSINESS
COMMENTS, CORRECTIONS, CLARIFICATIONS, AND C*CKUPS
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How Australia can save billions in health costs
Centre for Policy Development Board Director John Menadue and health economist Ian McAuley explain how billions could be trimmed from health budgets.
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Can India learn to speak in a single tongue?
India has 1.7 billion people and 1600 languages and dialects, but many believe it’s time for a single lingua franca. But which language? Hindi? English? And is it even achievable?
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Tony Abbott’s new paid parental leave plan is completely self-defeating, explains George Megalogenis: you can’t give everyone a new right, but ask only a tiny fraction of the population to pay for it.
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How to fake a businesss district
The town of North Tyneside in England is a retail ghost town, full of empty and abandoned shops, but their solution to attracting new business is a stroke of genius: put up fake shopfronts to show what the town could be.
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Cyclists rejoice, Google maps have finally put biking directions on their maps. Sure, it only applies to 150 US cities right now, but it’s a lengthy process to create a bike map. Google explains the hassles of hills, busy intersections and bike lanes.
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ABC chairman: climate reporting just an exercise in group-think
Climate change has become an issue where contrary views are not tolerated and sceptics are mocked in the media. This shouldn’t happen at the ABC, said ABC chairman — and known climate change denier — Maurice Newman, in a speech to journos.
The front cover photo that infuriated Washington Post readers
Google: How can newspapers survive? Ditch the “papers” bit-
How the Euro was built on a lie
The Euro is fundamentally flawed, says Der Spiegel: built on broken promises, fudged figures and dodgy deals. An excellent analysis on everything that’s wrong with Europe’s currency — and how it might be fixed.
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Journos and economists are obsessed with creating a housing bubble, writes Christopher Joye, as he debunks some of the common housing market myths. No, Melbourne house prices are not ‘booming’.
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DiMattina gets a lesson in rebranding
The Melbourne cafe at the centre of a bullying controversy is facing a tough journey back to profitability as it struggles to separate itself from the tragic suicide of 19-year-old waitress Brodie Panlock.
The new global middle class: they’re not like “us”
Why coffee in the office is more important than you might think
Toyota: oh, what a failure-
Are you now or have you ever been a climate scientist?
Accusation of criminality against leading climate scientists takes the denialist campaign of harassment and intimidation to new lows.
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PHOTO GALLERY: Mongolia’s worst winter in 30 years
Beautiful but depressing images from Mongolia, where locals are enduring temperatures as low as -50 degrees Celsius and livestock are dying in the millions.
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NASA scientist James Hansen says that cap-and-trade schemes are “hokey” and will never be accepted by developing countries. Only a carbon tax and the use of nuclear power will work to battle climate change.
Why organic wine tastes better with your eyes closed
Why peer review is not gospel
Filet-O-Fish facing extinction?
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‘Threatened’ Tony has opportunity to repent — in budgies
Tony Abbott’s comments on homosexuality — saying he felt “threatened” by gays — have been roundly attacked as homophobic. Now Tony has a chance to repent, resplendent in the latest designer speedos. Will he accept?
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This year, the Academy Awards replaced its US-style “first-past-the-post” voting system with Australia’s preferential model. But it may have been the reason Avatar didn’t score the coveted “Best Picture” gong, explains Peter Martin.
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The Green Zone, a bombs-n-guns bloke-fest starring Matt Down feels a lot like an exercise in articulating the bleeding obvious. The existence of WMDs was a lie concocted by American “intelligence” to invade Iraq? Duh, writes Luke Buckmaster.
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