Some juicy yarns doing the rounds of DFAT over the last week, as the PM gets ready to meet Obama for the first time. For starters, the PM’s office has been sweating the small stuff over arrangements for their White House media opportunity — whether it will be a full press conference in the Rose Garden, or […]
March, 2009
AFL holds its nerve and plays winning hand in Qld
The AFL have again underlined why their collective decision making confirms them as the savviest governing body in Australian sport, on the heels of Anna Bligh’s historic Queensland election win, writes Ross Stapleton.
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The daily clickthroughs: STATE OF THE PLANET: Clever things being done in green tech STUFF WE LIKE: Abandoned planes and melon sculptures What’s new on the Crikey blogs: ANDREW BARTLETT: Initial comments on the QLD election ROCKY & GAWENDA: A still-life morning LITERARY MINDED: Steven Amsterdam — a responsive interview CROAKEY: Over-treatment of prostate cancer shows the […]
Real economy wrap: US goes postal … black pudding back
The US Postal Service wants to cut its 6 million strong work force by around a quarter, in one of the world’s biggest ever downsizings, writes Glenn Dyer.
The truth about Hanson and the Sunday Tele. Apologetic? Not.
The Sunday Telegraph has apologised to Pauline Hanson. What made them change their mind? Andrew Crook investigates.
Eddington blasts golden handshakes. What about News Corp?
Leading Australian company director, Sir Rod Eddington, strongly criticised lofty termination payments last week. Was he so forthright in the News Corporation boardroom last month? Adam Schwab writes:
Razer: Conroy should not be surprised at blacklist leak
The emergence of the ACMA blacklist should have been as shocking to Stephen Conroy as, say, another tabloid sashay from Lindsay Lohan, writes Helen Razer.
Crossing the Floor with Bernard Keane: The debut episode
The inaugural episode of the new vodcast from our Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane: Crossing the Floor
Video of the Day: Keith Olbermann’s Worst Person in the World
Keith Olbermann doles out awards for “numskullery”. Don’t be surprised when Bill O’Reilly gets the prize.
Borg can’t be sold to Brisbane, nor Bligh to Howard’s battlers
Few seem to have asked — until the swing became obvious — whether Anna Bligh could hold onto Beattie’s vote on the urban fringes and in the regions, writes Mark Bahnisch.
What would a Springborg victory mean?
It seems reasonably clear that the opposition is gaining ground in spite of the Nationals’ takeover, not because of it, writes Charles Richardson.
Getting skeptical about TruEnergy’s ETS apocalypse
Uh-oh. Looks like civilisation as we know it comes to an end in 2015, writes Giles Parkinson.
PSA tests: evidence — at last!
If doctors were paid by capitation (i.e. by the number of people they serve) or by salaries would there be so many PSA tests? Gavin Mooney writes.
Last night’s TV ratings
The Winners … The Losers … News & CA … The Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.
Dyer’s business wrap: Oil surge … Fed fallout … BMW sales plunge
In a second day of post-Fed action, there was mostly grim news, mixed with a grab-bag of positivity, writes Glenn Dyer.
ACMA’s blacklist just got read all over
The more you try to hide your controversial Internet blacklist, Senator Conroy, the bigger you make it, the bigger the incentive for someone to leak it, writes Stilgherrian.
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Crikey’s AFL & NRL Hot Form Charts
The final, must-have piece of footy tipping intelligence, Crikey’s Hot Form Charts, are here to help you pick the winner in this week’s finals.
CleanTech: Green Invest cuts costs from the top
At Green Invest this week, it wasn’t those “last hired” staff at the bottom of the food chain who were let go, but instead highly paid, long serving board members, writes Garth Lamb.
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The daily clickthroughs: STATE OF THE PLANET: Can Disney really go green? FRIDAY TRASH WRAP: Strippers, crazy cat ladies and Gwyneth eats Dinosaur Meat What’s new on the Crikey blogs: ROOTED: Getting people who care into positions of influence PURE POISON: Defending the indefensible FIRST BLOG ON THE MOON: Some things I put elsewhere on […]
The week in geek: Everyone hates the new Facebook … Will ACMA ban Google?
Our weekly column from the world of the Web.
Tips and rumours
Regarding the expansion of mining in Kakadu. Is our Environment Minister aware of the hundreds and thousands of litres of sulphuric acid that are trucked through Kakadu National Park every day for processing purposes since the failing acid plant on site has closed down. Former adviser to Gary Nairn, Peter Phelps who asked some rather nasty questions […]
Media briefs: Labor embraces 1960s airport chic… How to kill an American newspaper…
Today’s headlines about the headline makers.
