Much as I looked in The Australian’s first media section of the year this morning, there was nary a mention of the job cutting going on at News Ltd, writes Glenn Dyer.
February, 2009
Tips and rumours
Ex-Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra was busy shopping in Sydney’s QVB last Thursday surrounded by minders and bodyguards. He was staying at the Park Hyatt and flew out to Singapore on Saturday. Jane Halton, Secretary of the Department of Health and Ageing, when attending a fund raising event at ANU, in 2005 declared that “Howard could not get her, she […]
Mungo: The pessimists are proclaiming the end of the lucky country
Australians have at least had the foresight to elect a leader to see them through the bad times, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Rudd manifesto is all good in hindsight
Back in 2007 Rudd boasted that Labor’s fiscal policy was “a mirror position” of John Howard’s. He’s since changed his tune, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Surge in donations couldn’t buy a win for Howard
A massive surge in donations couldn’t save the beleaguered Howard Government from defeat in November 2007, writes Bernard Keane.
Now showing on the Crikey website…
The daily clickthroughs: STATE OF THE PLANET: Green cemeteries and dual-flush loos STUFF WE LIKE: Keynes isn’t just for Christmas What’s new on the Crikey blogs: ROOTED: People’s Climate Action Summit — Live report from Canberra ANDREW BARTLETT: Blocking the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme THE NORTHERN MYTH: A wild day out at the Tour Down Under CORPORATE […]
Media briefs: Israel pays damages for death of journalist… Home and Away magazine a runaway success
Today’s headlines about the headline makers.
It’s ok to be racist, just not about Israelis
Is it ok to say what you like about other countries, because Israel and Israelis are somehow special? asks Greg Barns.
Pensioners might find gay equality’s not all it’s cracked up to be
The gay community celebrated the recent changes to Commonwealth laws but they failed to take into account the effects the changes in the Social Security area would have on cohabiting aged pensioners, writes Eva Cox.
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Can Graeme Wedderburn save NSW Labor?
The NSW Labor Government is in such dire straits that no single individual can save it, writes Alex Mitchell.
The devil in the detail on US GDP
The latest US growth figures will have been greeted with dismay by the federal government and Reserve Bank board, writes Glenn Dyer.
Moderates finally score a win in the GOP
The Republican National Committee has just elected as its new chair the most moderate candidate in the field, Michael Steele, who is also an African-American, writes Charles Richardson.
Crikey Says: Crikey says
Anyone who doubts we face an election campaign arms race ought to take a look at the amounts of money being reported today — more than a year after the event — by our major political parties. The Liberal Party received over $10m in donations, and the ALP more than $8m in 2007-08, nearly all of which would have […]
