It was a glittering group in Sydney last night who paid tribute to Frank Lowy, the Westfield shopping mall king, a writes Glenn Dyer.
February, 2009
RBA goes for hardly any growth
The $42 billion of spending now being argued over in Canberra will go a long way to keeping the national economy from sliding into recession this year, writes Glenn Dyer.
An intervention intervention: Rudd dobbed into the UN
It took almost three years for the Howard government to get a “please explain” from the United Nations on its treatment of Aboriginal people. Kevin Rudd’s administration looks like achieving it less than two, writes Chris Graham.
Sacked NSW Nat frontbencher goes feral
If Andrew Stoner gave a press conference today suggesting that Andrew Fraser be marched out at dawn, blindfolded and shot — nobody would be surprised, writes Alex Mitchell.
ABC staff hit by global financial crisis?
The ABC has withdrawn a 4% pay increase offer made to staff, citing a “dramatic change to economic conditions”, writes Margaret Simons.
Hewson: We could see an election this year
At best, the Rudd Government’s second stimulatory package will just buy some time — simply delay the inevitable, writes John Hewson.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications and c*ckups
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Gans: What Taylornomics taught me
Stanford’s John Taylor is nothing like the extremist Kevin Rudd described in federal parliament this week, writes Joshua Gans.
Now showing on the Crikey website
The daily clickthroughs: FRIDAY TRASH WRAP: Stephen King gets catty What’s new on the Crikey blogs: THE CONTENT MAKERS: Rupert agrees: across the board cuts PLANE TALKING: More rude wake up calls for airline investors CORPORATE ENGAGEMENT: Ken Henry crosses the rubicon POLLYTICS: Did Beazley suffer by opposing tax cuts? Also on the Crikey website: PODCASTS: […]
The end times are imminent!
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Dengue fever heads south
While residents of Southern states have been expiring through the heatwave, folks in Far North Queensland have been contending with a dengue fever epidemic, writes Matthew Leonard.
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Morning Market Report
Marcus Padley reports on the highs and lows of today’s markets.
Crikey Says: Crikey says
While much of the Press Gallery might describe the Coalition’s decision to oppose the stimulus package as “brave”, few have identified the blatant contradiction at the heart of Malcolm Turnbull’s position. He purports to believe both in the necessity of minimising a deficit, and the virtue of sweeping tax cuts. These are — unless you’ve just beamed […]
Flip-flop Flannery is a climate change opportunist
Flannery’s ability to write engagingly about climate science has led some to believe he must have something sensible to say about the solutions to global warming. Not so, writes Clive Hamilton.
Peter Howson, minister for ‘trees, boongs and poofters’
Howson lost his seat in 1972 and left Canberra unmourned and unmissed. But some 30 years later, the culture-history wars saw him resurrected by Quadrant, writes Mungo MacCallum.
The Age suspends Backman’s columns
The editor of The Age, Paul Ramadge, has suspended columns by business columnist Michael Backman, writes Margaret Simons.
Gans: Can giving people money work?
If I hand a household a $1000 what happens? Let’s start with the theory, writes Joshua Gans.
Open letter to Marion Scrymgour
I believe our bilingual program has been working well because all our children who go to school in Yuendumu speak our Warlpiri language very well and we have strong Warlpiri families, writes Cecily Napanangka Granites.
RATED RUDE Aesop’s Fables: The Scorpion and the Frog
As told by first dog on the moon
AAP mines Facebook for the dead
Privacy isn’t what it used to be. Even in death, writes Neil Walker.
Suncorp battens down the hatches
The future independence of Brisbane-based Suncorp Metway is in doubt after it revealed a sharp drop in profit, writes Glenn Dyer.
Gaddafi’s solution for Africa: get rid of democracy
This week’s summit of the African Union wound up overnight, but not without a remarkable performance at the final press conference by the organisation’s new chairman, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, writes Charles RIchardson.
Tips and rumours
The Bangkok gossip mill is running a story at Sydney University’s expense, but which may give hope to those local applicants who missed out on their second round university entry. Seems that the daughter of fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra applied to the University of Sydney to undertake further study. The daughter, according […]
