The marginal seat of Lindsay, in Sydney’s outer-west, is crucial to Labor’s chances of seeing off a resurgent Liberal Party. Yesterday local MP David Bradbury brought some back-up. Bernard Keane hit the hustings with Bob Hawke.
Reports of dead oil soaked animals have been greatly exaggerated
Good reasons to stop drinking bottled water
How would you choose to die?
Google premieres election 2010 website
Taliban commander responds to WikiLeaks documents
US scientist developing real-life invisibility cloak
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How to become a Wampa
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Gillard comes from a long line of Labor mental health failures
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Indigenous Times publishing spin from discredited operator
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In Penrith, Bob aside, who cares?
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Mitchell’s $120m sale could be his smartest move yet
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Today’s First Dog on the Moon
TOP STORIES
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Labor’s love rats can’t save this campaign
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Getting depressed watching television
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Moving forward overload … politics a drag in the NT … Kernot back from the dead …
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This day in Crikey: Monday, 30 July, 2007
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Cash for clunkers: $1b for clapped-out, world’s worst-polluting coal generator
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The feminist disconnect: why I can’t get excited about Julia
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Nine reasons why the rich should give more …
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Liberal use of pollie speak labours too many points
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Trying to limit self-determination is a losing battle
Crikey Says
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Who won the news cycle? The Coalition, marking five in a row
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Upgrade the wardrobe, gents, with a classic sports jacket
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Media briefs: Staerk’s back… white-washing the media … CBS comes out of the closet
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No MasterChef, no Ten
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Journalists in bed with Exxon — it’s a marriage that needs a divorce
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Markets down as US jobless data is released
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US staring Japanese-style deflation in the face
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Somber outlook as Macquarie share price continues to founder
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WikiLeaks and the “barbarism that is war”
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COMMENTS, CORRECTIONS, CLARIFICATIONS, AND C*CKUPS
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Farce and tragedy seal the fate of Neal and Della Bosca
For many years Belinda Neal and John Della Bosca were a formidable force in Australian politics, but both their careers ended ignominiously: Neal’s in farce at a media conference yesterday and Della Bosca’s in personal and political tragedy.
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Uhlmann: The cracks beneath Gillard’s perfect veneer
Gillard’s Women’s Weekly makeover is a perfect metaphor for the recent movements in the ALP, writes Chris Uhlmann. The scars from Kevin Rudd have had a little concealer rubbed over them, but doesn’t mean they won’t melt under the stage lights.
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Crikey Says: Labor’s love rats can’t save this campaign
Labor strategists apparently want Kevin Rudd — failed leader; potential rat — back on the campaign trail.
Iran inching towards party politics-
Media briefs: Media briefs: Staerk’s back… white-washing the media … CBS comes out of the closet
Surprise today as formally dropped columnist Graham Staerk reappeared in the Gold Coast Bulletin’s Thursday edition. Moving forward into fair dinkum territory, shocking PSA’s only work in Oz and other media news.
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A compulsive internet addict, four months ago James Sturm decided to unplug from it all. What life lessons have been taught? Perhaps not as many as expected.
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For the first time, WikiLeaks actually leaked its Afghan War Diary to major news sources — The Guardian, NY Times etc — in advance, so as to maximise media coverage. CJR explains how the deal was done.
Like! Zuckerberg gets the Facebook treatment
It’ll cost Obama $600,00 to read the WSJ-
Mitchell’s $120m sale could be his smartest move yet
One of the most powerful figures in the Australian media sector, Harold Mitchell, is going global.
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He may have become a cartoon-like stereotype of himself, but Hugh Hefner has been a critical player in the last 50 years of sex and culture. He helped create the concept of “manhood” in America, says a new doco on the Playboy founder.
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Will America implement an internet sales tax?
Given the lingering effects of the GFC and the continued proliferation of largely untaxed e-commerce, a renewed movement of internet sales tax advocates is growing in Washington. Unsurprisingly, online retailers such as Amazon aren’t part of the club.
Can Brazil become a major economy?-
What would you ask a climate scientist?
Suring the Copenhagen summit last year there was a very clever service available for journos, where 650 climate scientists offered up their brains for the picking on tricky science questions. The service is back. What questions would you want answered? asks Amber Jamieson.
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This talk that the oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill has “disappeared” is absolute bull, says Mac McClelland. BP is white-washing this story and the media are falling for it like fools.
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PHOTO GALLERY: Mopping up the other oil spill
The BP Gulf of Mexico spill isn’t the only environmental disaster of the last few months. A pipeline explosion in Dalian, China, resulted in an oil spill of 430 sq km, with workers attempting to stop the leakage.
US ‘dream team’ not so green-
Crikey can reveal through a series of leaked emails that the makers of the acclaimed film Son of Babylon repeatedly requested for it to be removed from this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival, in protest of the festival’s funding associations with Israel. Despite their protests the film remained on the program.
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Daily Proposition: Upgrade the wardrobe, gents, with a classic sports jacket
What can you buy that would make me look stylish, confident and sexy, all at the same time? The answer is simple, says George L. — go for a sports jacket.
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Danish director Mads Brügger’s sharp political doco about a trio of supposed artists who put on a deliberately bad comedy show in North Korea raises a fascinatingly muddled consideration of ethics and conscience, says Luke Buckmaster.
Now playing: The Twitter Effect-
It’s not easy when sports addicts go on holidays and find it hard to get their sporting hit. But for football fan Kevin O’Faircheallaigh, there were many advantages to being on the road during the World Cup. The wrath of his partner wasn’t one of them.
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So you can play ball, but how are you with numbers?
It used to be the case that former players, scouts and coaches were selected for the plum management roles in the N.B.A. But things are a changin’ in the world of professional basketball as management specialists and lawyers become the new executives.
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Diego Maradona has been ousted as coach of the Argentinian national football team. With all the drama that follows the former star, the only surprise is that he lasted as long as he did, says Daniel Schweimler.
Pondering the pom pom: is cheerleading actually a sport?
Crikey's Guide to Julia Gillard
