Why do I and I presume so many other men have such difficulties in getting “adequate objective information” about prostatic cancer, asks Gavin Mooney?
March, 2009
Media briefs: GFC TV … Nine shifts ads … Sky appoints Twitter correspondent
Today’s headlines about the headline makers.
Tips and rumours
News is offering 50 redundancies at the Herald Sun as part of plan to combine all of News features under newly appointed national features boss Alan Oakley. Also Herald Sun and Sunday Herald Sun sports staff to go on seven-day roster. Warren Pitt (QLD ALP Member for Mulgrave) refused Anna Bligh’s request for him to […]
Cabramatta MP in ALP donation scandal
Nick Lalich, surviving comfortably on about a quarter of a million dollars a year, is about to become the subject of an ICAC investigation, writes Glenn Dyer.
Ideology can only hamper the opposition’s IR stand
The government is ready to use the IR issue to inflict maximum hurt on the Coalition writes Bernard Keane.
Global economy stuffed, says World Bank
The World Bank says the global economy is likely to shrink for the first time since World War II this year, writes Glenn Dyer.
The surprising survival of Julian McGauran
The Nationals can be seen to have done rather well out of the political defection of Victorian senator Julian McGauran, writes Charles Richardson.
Bligh Government puts aside its hurricane lamp to revive Gold Coast AFL stadium
The AFL has gone guarantor for election bound Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, writes Ross Stapleton.
Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks
Meaty snippets from the home of government by Richard Farmer.
Rundle: What do you give the fuzzy wuzzy who has everything?
Whatever the manifold talents of the Obama administration, there’s now general agreement that gift-giving isn’t one of them, writes Guy Rundle.
Malcolm Turnbull, king of nuance
Malcolm Turnbull’s nuanced economic message has more nuance than, well, Nuanced Jack McNuance, winner of this year’s Mr Nuance competition, writes Bernard Keane.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Peter Costello … s-x and International Women’s Day … hyperinflation … the ABC …
GetUp: laying our climate strategy on the table
GetUp is trying to ensure Australia is not a blocker in international climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December, writes GetUp’s Meredith Turnbull and Simon Sheikh.
Question Time: any port in a sh-tstorm!
The following is extract from the Hansard record of Question Time Tuesday 10 March 2009, was obtained by Bernard Keane.
Democracy and science vs Big Coal: the final round?
Coal industry front groups are again telling Kevin Rudd to do nothing on climate change, in defiance of public opinion, writes Dan Cass.
UTS, the Sydney Writers’ Festival and the stifling of dissent
The Sydney Writers’ Festival and the UTS has been embroiled in claims of censorship, writes the Head of Jounalism at UTS Wendy Bacon.
Ending the alcopop scourge
The alcohol industry’s hostility to the alcopop tax ignores the fact that sales of these products are falling, writes Mike Daube.
The end of the Affair for Dalton
A recenty profile of a Tricom banker in the now defunct Affair magazine makes for humorous reading, writes Adam Schwab.
How the media menaced Dennis Ferguson
We ought to think seriously about abolishing jury trials in Australia altogether, writes Greg Barns.
Last night’s TV ratings
The Winners … The Losers … News & CA … The Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.
Video of the Day: Dancing birds
Rush Limbaugh, leader of the conservative crazies
The problem for Republicans is that Rush Limbaugh’s supporters provide the party with its activists, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Costello’s mission to destroy the Liberal Party
We’re witnessing one of the lowest, most selfish and spiteful acts of political bastardry in many a year, writes Bernard Keane.
Opportunists line up to destroy PacBrands
Just when we thought a little bit of sanity was returning to the executive pay debate and Pacific Brands, along comes Peter Costello, writes Stephen Mayne.
