The Australian banks are about to kick the chock away from the last remaining support for the weakening Australian economy, writes Glenn Dyer.
March, 2009
Gold Coast political football — see the gloves come off
You could be mistaken for thinking Saturday’s Queensland election is about the whole of the state voting on whether it wants an AFL team on the Gold Coast, writes Ross Stapleton.
Tips and rumours
The LNP has now withdrawn its “Queenslanders Stories” from its own site and Youtube, although seems to have forgotten it also put them on Daily Motion (wakey wakey guys). The ads were filmed on the campus of the University of Sunshine Coast, with the full permission of the University, by ad agency Six Degrees Creative, which operates […]
Turnbull’s Ruddbank stance riles party donors
Malcolm Turnbull and the Coalition could be alienating their blueblood constitiuency with their take on “Ruddbank”, writes Bernard Keane.
How the government profited from detainees’ misery
To understand how an Aboriginal man could slowly die in the back of a van driven by GSL guards in 2008, one has only to read a report of another GSL transfer in 2004, writes Pamela Curr.
Now showing on the Crikey website
The daily clickthroughs: STATE OF THE PLANET: Naked cyclists take to the streets STUFF WE LIKE: Wednesday morning rants What’s new on the Crikey blogs: ROCKY & GAWENDA: The sound and the fury ANDREW BARTLETT: Whither Europe? CROAKEY: Putting the pharma into pharmacy THE NORTHERN MYTH: Grasshopper of the week FIRST BLOG ON THE MOON: […]
Video of the Day: The Onion: Spam crackdown threatens Koy4Goff’s p-nis enlarger and free iPod industry
RBA hedges its bets: next cut no certainty
An interest rate cut is still a chance at the April 7 meeting of the Reserve Bank board, but it might not be the certainty so many economists have been saying, writes Glenn Dyer.
GFC: real world economics
For all their apparent complexity, the world’s most powerful economic models had no concept of the very human emotions of fear and mistrust, writes Sean Stephens.
Last night’s TV ratings
The Winners … The Losers … News & CA … The Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.
Hanson: Media Watch ‘dangerous’, Press Council waits
Last night’s Media Watch program suggested John Hartigan’s campaign against proposed privacy legislation had been undermined by the publication of the nude “Pauline Hanson” photos, writes Margaret Simons.
Crikey’s “do-it-yourself” conservative think piece
For the benefit of Crikey’s readers Walter Slurry has created the first ever “do-it-yourself” Albrechtsen/Akerman/Bolt/Price/Devine column. Cut out and keep.
Trashing Pauline Hanson was a class act
If sexism remains one of the great unmentionables in Australian politics, class is even more so, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Now showing on the Crikey website
The daily clickthroughs: STATE OF THE PLANET: Gunns felled by own law suit STUFF WE LIKE: Sassy bus stops and Clooney-flavoured tofu What’s new on the Crikey blogs: PINEAPPLE PARTY TIME: The supporting cast THE CONTENT MAKERS: State of the News Media POLLYTICS: Essential Report: GFC and the economy edition ANDREW BARTLETT: Push to sack […]
Senate dithers, rest of the country drinks the Ruddopop
The alcopops excise rise started life as a tax increase masquerading as a stunt last year, writes Bernard Keane.
Taking on the tsar of all the oceans
I was not aware that fomer Environment Minister Barry Cohen was tsar of all the oceans. If so he was a very feeble tsar because for the last 22 years, the whales have been illegally slaughtered, writes Captain Paul Watson.
Media briefs: Traditional publisher online trainwreck… Seven launches infotainment…
Today’s headlines about the headline makers.
Keep your ETS Safe!
A handy guide
ABC Mobile website fails accessibility test
The ABC Mobile home page does not appear to have been designed in accordance with guidelines for web accessibility for the disabled and fails several mobile phone and other web guidelines, writes Tom Worthington.
Career relief: John Farnham sniffs out a worthy cause
Sound Relief is testament to the best of what’s great about the generosity of the music industry; but there’s some financial reward for many of the big boys involved, writes Ross Stapleton.
Morning market report
Marcus Padley reports on the highs and lows of today’s markets.
Beware “buying off the plan”
There are few more effective ways of generating a negative return on your investment than by buying a property “off the plan” from a developer, writes Adam Schwab.
NSW nurses to pick up legal tab
The NSW Nurses Association is expected to be asked to pick up the tab for the failed defamation proceedings launched by the union’s general secretary Brett Holmes, writes Alex Mitchell.
Never mind ABC programs, feel our values
Managing Director of the ABC Mark Scott sent this email to ABC employees this morning…
