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January, 2009
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Letter from … Phnom Penh
Kaing Guek Eav has been detained since 1999 and is one of five former Khmer Rouge leaders currently facing trial for crimes against humanity, write Georgia Wilkins and Pat McGrath.
Open letter to Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop
Having wasted vast amounts of money when times were good, it seems you’re determined to criticise the Government for taking us into deficit when things are at about their worst, writes Bernard Keane
The Blagojevich trial
Listen to the Chicago Tribune’s audio of the FBI Blagovejich tapes as the trial unfolds.
Last nights TV ratings
The Winners … The Losers … News & CA … The Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.
Media briefs: Dokic rocks the teev… BBC fights second battle for the week…
Todays headlines about the headline makers.
Storm’s media blitz on Commonwealth
The co-founder of Storm Financial, Emmanuel Cassimatis, has launched a media blitz, blaming the Commonwealth Bank for panicking and causing Storm clients to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, writes James Thomson.
Labor’s membership crisis — they’re not the only ones
The malaise in our political parties has underlying social causes that neither of them is yet willing to face up to, writes Charles Richardson.
Stop press: the sun is cooling
Something interesting is happening on the sun, writes Ben Sandilands.
We’re only partially rooned, says NAB
The National Australia Bank has downgraded Australia’s economic outlook, forecasting a shallow recession, a sharper rise in unemployment and interest rate hikes, writes Glenn Dyer.
Slough of stimulated despond, here we come.
We need some new thinking that understands the mysterious links between mass psychology and the economy to lift the national fit of misery we’re slumping into, writes Bernard Keane.
Pay v. public: the battle for relevance in broadcasting
The pay television sector has made a comprehensive and pointed challenge to the ABC and SBS and their claims on the public purse, writes Margaret Simons.
Forget Backman — meet the Pope’s anti-semite
Williamson’s a virulent, Protocols-of-Zion-quoting anti-Semite who thinks that the Holocaust didn’t happen. He’s also just been welcomed by Pope Benedict back into the Catholic fold, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Mungo: Malcolm’s climate change miracle
Malcolm Turnbull’s strategy is about managing the political risk, not the risk of climate change, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Last night’s TV ratings
The Winners … The Losers … News & CA … The Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.
Why five Australians are in a West Papuan jail
Would be tourists become victims of Indonesian military concerns in the face of coming elections, writes Damien Kingsbury.
Now showing on the Crikey website
The daily clickthroughs: STATE OF THE PLANET: Putting nasty things into water STUFF WE LIKE: Mexican wrestlers and cafe offices What’s new on the Crikey blogs: ROOTED: Indian youth in solar-electric cars ANDREW BARTLETT: Changing Australia Day CROAKEY: The sad state of mental health services THE CONTENT MAKERS: The future of ABC and SBS THE […]
The Burchett debate: G Burchett, Nasht and Meray
Simon Nasht, George Burchett and Jamie Miller are ducking the book written by Tibor Méray about Wilfred Burchett, writes Bill Hyde.
Dyer’s business wrap: Job cuts ahoy … Iceland shelved
Companies in the US and Europe chopped more than 87,000 jobs yesterday in another bloody 12 hours for the global economy, writes Glenn Dyer.
Crikey Says: Crikey says
French newspapers and journalism are in trouble. But in greater measure the troubles of French newspapers are no different to the situation in the USA, Britain and, of course, Australia.
Tips and rumours
Which high profile Hawthorn premiership player was seen jumping on car roofs and bonnets on Ruskin St, Elwood at 10pm on Saturday night? This despite team mate Brent Renouf serving an in-club suspension for doing the same thing. BHP Billiton 1. On ABC Radio 720 Perth on Friday morning Presenter Geoff Hutchinson interviewed Ravensthorpe Shire […]
Deconstructing Turnbull’s green near-miracle
Some of what Turnbull proposed won’t go down that well with the Nationals but he thinks he is on a winner with biochar, writes Bernard Keane.
Sarkozy bails out newspapers, again
Will a 200 million euro package of assistance to the French newspaper industry have any impact at all when state aid is already at 280 million a year? asks Glenn Dyer.
