This week’s shambles keeps coming back to structural issues within the Liberal Party, writes Bernard Keane.
February, 2009
Lowbottom High Diaries: Good morning sunshine
Getting public transport is a nightmare. Then school starts, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Crikey Says: Thanks Mr Howard
Kevin Rudd might be talking crap when he purports to explain how neoliberalism plunged us into recession but John Howard shouldn’t even be given airtime. He was a shabby economic manager.
US economy takes Pythonesque turn
Warren Buffett bailed out luxury geegaw flogger, Tiffany’s this week by buying $US250 million of the struggling jeweller’s debt, writes Glenn Dyer.
Now showing on the Crikey website…
The daily clickthroughs: STATE OF THE PLANET: Plants doomed by climate change FRIDAY TRASH WRAP: Pride and Predator & the Anatomy Awards What’s new on the Crikey blogs: PURE POISON: Shoot yourself in the foot in three easy steps POLLYTICS: Unleash your inner Liberal strategist CRIKEY SPORTS: Maxwell cleared, the shirt-front fights another day THE […]
Morning Market Report
Marcus Padley reports on the highs and lows of today’s markets
ETS the government’s hole in the hole
The debacle over the Government’s ETS would be a major issue, if the Opposition was on deck, writes Bernard Keane.
Media briefs: Politkovskaya accused acquitted … advice for journos … Hitchens beaten up…
Today’s headlines about the headline makers.
Comitatus: What should the Coalition do?
The reality of what the Coalition faces is far more difficult than most of us ever credit, writes Possum Comitatus.
Botany Bay car park doomed
The outrageous proposal by Rockdale City Council to build a 100-vehicle car park on the beachfront of Botany Bay has been scrapped, writes Alex Mitchell.
More cost cutting on the cards for Oz papers
More news from the cost-cutting front at newspapers around the nation, writes Margaret Simons.
Things difficult, not dire, says RBA chief
Things “will be difficult” over the next year, according to Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens, writes Glenn Dyer.
Newspaper readerships down, but data quality is questioned
Six of Australia’s eight largest daily newspapers saw falls in readership numbers, according to data released today, writes mUmbrella’s Tim Burrows.
Kohler: prelude to a kiss-of-death
The humiliation of the US Securities and Exchange Commission over Bernard Madoff and Sir Allen Stanford, and President Obama’s $US275 billion mortgage bailout plan are early wake-up calls for Australia, writes Alan Kohler.
Are breast cancer screening benefits being oversold?
Many leading cancer epidemiologists are now calling for women to be given more complete information about the probabilities, risks and benefits of screening, writes Simon Chapman.
Last night’s TV ratings
The Winners … The Losers … News & CA … The Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.
Climate emergency in the Pacific
At a time when Queenslanders are inundated with massive flooding, spare a thought for our island neighbours, writes Nic Maclellan.
Fairfax bloodbath set to get bloodier
Analysts are expecting a torrent of red ink when stricken old media firm Fairfax releases its first half results on Monday, writes Andrew Crook.
Could we get forty losses exceeding $100m declared for the month?
Our list of every Australian public company that has ever announced a net loss of more than $100 million shows that we had a record 29 entries in 2007-08, writes Stephern Mayne.
Introducing Crikey’s latest blogger: Michael Gawenda (and Rocky)
I have had dogs all my life and the dogs of my life are sort of markers to the stages of any life, from childhood to old age. Rocky, well Rocky, with some luck, will grow old with me, writes Michael Gawenda.
Alarms sound as The Australian Spectator launches
The glittering launch of The Spectator Australia magazine at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music last night ended farcically when a fire alarm went off, writes Ern Malley.
The Victorian Opposition and FOI bungling
When it comes to using that inveterate tool of opposition parties — freedom of information laws — the Vic Libs are still on training wheels it seems, writes Greg Barns.
Crikey’s Twitter caption contest
Crikey challenged our Twitter pals to caption a snap of BFFs Mal and John shooting the breeze yesterday.
