From Hitler’s diaries to revolvers in Georgia, Daniel Finkelstein looks at the best news pranks.
April, 2009
Home-grown talent foreign to English game
Money rules as never before on England’s soccer pitch.
EU kyboshes goods that aren’t energy efficient
The EU agreed to set environmental standards for household products such as windows and shower heads in a bid to reduce energy consumption. And it won’t end there.
Bank DeathWatch: Fifty-six fatalities and counting
A total of 56 US banks have now failed since the global credit crisis and recession erupted in 2007.
Political snippets: No good press for MP travel junkets
Why it’s a good idea for pollies to stay home for the holidays and viewing Hillary Clinton through the prism of existentialism.
Swine flu fever races around the world
Swine flu: highly contagious, highly reportable. What the world is saying.
Crikey Says: Not the time for an MP pay-rise
There’s never a good moment for any increase in remuneration for MPs, but in the midst of an economic crisis is probably the worst timing possible.
A new spin on ‘mobile art’, care of Prada
The Prada Transformer, fashion’s latest starchitect-designed metamorphic space, opens in Seoul, South Korea, this month.
The Ricky Stuart and Gus Gould fallout: we don’t care
but the public saga of the fallout between Ricky Stuart and Gus Gould is surely one of the most boring things to grace NRL in living memory, writes Steve Kaless.
Budget countdown: will ABC and SBS survive our toughest budget in living memory?
Before considering giving more money to the ABC, there’s the small matter of what savings the broadcaster could make.
Education revolution brings stress and strain with the largesse
Schools across the country are suffering unexpected strain from their share of the government’s largesse.
Tips and rumours: The real boat people story?
A Crikey tipster lets in on the “real story” behind the Ashmore reef explosion, while another reckons the Immigration Department is broke.
Won’t somebody think of the vultures?
Farmers are to be allowed to leave dead livestock in their fields in parts of Europe — to help starving vultures.
Why “Just Say No” to people smugglers won’t work
If you were a Tamil in that situation, facing – at best – life in a barbed wire camp, how would you respond to someone offering you a place on a boat?
Throw Obama’s cash for cars plan on the scrap heap?
Obama’s plan to offer cash towards a new car if people promise to send their old one to become scrap metal is pitched as a win for the economy and the environment. But is it wrong on both counts?
Ms Wong goes to Washington
Penny Wong is in the first preparatory meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, writes Erwin Jackson.
Samson and Delilah under the stars in Alice Springs
The Telegraph Station was an appropriate setting for a film that expresses so much about the communication gap at the heart of this country, writes Elli Rennie.
The history of plastic
As the most visible evidence of a disposable, trash-addled society, plastic has become the emblem of a world swimming in waste.
Wild food goes gourmet
Harvesting “wild food”, the seasonal salad leaves, nuts, fruit and fungi that grow abundantly across the UK, has led to a new industry in professional foraging for restaurants and a sharp surge in public interest.
Melbourne University’s ‘model’ provost departs
Melbourne University provost Peter McPhee has resigned. What’s the story? asks one Crikey reader.
ACCC flailing as Kirin mops up Lion Nathan
Kirin breweries of Japan has been ‘dying’ to expand in Australia.
Students can live with the poverty, but not the indignity
Could you live on $26 a day? That’s how much the Austudy allowance for a full-time student is, writes Danu Poyner.
Interview with Russian filmmaker Sergei Dvortsevoy
In Australia for a few days to promote his acclaimed drama Tulpan, film-maker Sergei Dvortsevoy sat down for a chat with Cinetology.
