Thursday, 12 February 2009

Together at last. (NSFW, obviously.)

Did Nambour High equip Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan to deal with all this at once? asks Stephen Mayne.

A striking thing about the flow of statistics this week is the continuing confidence people have in housing, writes Glenn Dyer.

The Cold War remains unfinished business in Australia — and, with the global crisis, we’re seeing a kind of political return of the repressed, writes Jeff Sparrow.

Marcus Padley reports on the highs and lows of today’s markets.

Victoria’s bushfires… stimulating the economys… the global financial crisis … climate change …

It’s hard to get excited about the unfolding drama of the Senate’s consideration of the stimulus package, writes Bernard Keane.

Despite his spectacular loss of wealth in ABC Learning, little detail has been reported about Eddy Groves’ remaining business interests, writes Adam Schwab.

Why is it that Parks Victoria and DSE get away with taking every opportunity to light fires in National Parks and stir local sentiment for more and more fires? asks Lionel Elmore.

The daily clickthroughs: STATE OF THE PLANET: Devine: Greenies should be hung BLOGWATCH: Tech-savvy Amish and the Beatles on ukulele What’s new on the Crikey blogs: FIRST BLOG ON THE MOON: Koala photos: the incontrovertible truth! THE CONTENT MAKERS: Who will edit the West? PLANE TALKING: Bowser theft by airlines continues to fall POLLYTICS: Newspoll — issue […]

Today’s headlines about the headline makers.

Media not only covers an event like the Victorian fires, but in a sense, creates and defines it as well, writes Michael Gawenda.

The First Dog on the Moon Blame-o-tronic Fault Finder 3000

With the embers still burning, The Australian’s obsessive, one-sided attempt to paint the fires as basically down to evil greenies continues apace, writes Guy Rundle.

Once considered a practical, even obvious approach to bushfire safety, the provision of designated Fire Refuges in at-risk communities has fallen out of favour, writes Chris Paver.

The prospect of a Senator Danny Nalliah traipsing the carpet in Canberra is a scary thought indeed, writes Andrew Crook.

Someone’s loose words yesterday created the news story of the day; the fires joining. And the media ate it up, without a hint of the analysis you would expect. Today, CFA/DSE back down from those comments without saying outright they were wrong. I’m told that a number of long term staff at The Age have […]

CDEP should never have been abolished, but this is even more the case given the predicted dire downturn in the Australian labour market in 2009 and beyond, writes Jon Altman.

Yesterday’s election results show Israel feeling its way back towards a two-party system — but the spectrum has shifted to the right, writes Charles Richardson.

Meaty snippets from the home of government by Richard Farmer.

Clive Small, former Assistant Commissioner of the NSW Police, has delivered a stinging criticism of Finance Minister Joe Tripodi in his new book, writes Alex Mitchell.

Senator BOB BROWN  — Once again, the Greens do not endorse the notion that question time should be set aside because of the bushfire crisis. In fact, it is our belief that, when there are times of great national tragedy or other matters of great national moment, question time is all the more relevant. I think there […]

The Winners … The Losers … News & CA … The Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.

Crikey understands that Lance Armstrong pocketed up to $3 million in cash for his recent visit to Adelaide, reports Bob Gosford.

Rupert Murdoch’s New Corporation is continuing its cost-cutting ways, writes Glenn Dyer.