Unemployment has jumped from 3.9% to 5.7% in just over a year. But double figures? Peter Martin has two reasons why we could well expect a double-digit unemployment rate.
April, 2009
Greed is irrelevant to GFC
Greed isn’t why the financial crisis happened, and restraining it won’t prevent bad stuff from happening again, writes Barry Schwartz.
Tasmania plans TV show to promote state
The Tasmanian Government is planning to pay a TV broadcaster to develop, make and air a series promoting the state as an exciting place to live and do business. Good luck with that.
The banality of Bush White House evil
Five years after the Abu Ghraib revelations, we must acknowledge that the US government methodically authorised torture and lied about it, writes Frank Rich.
The coming global catastrophe: what will we tell the next generation?
A British Government advisor is predicting a global catastrophe by 2030 over diminishing food, water and energy supplies. What will you tell your children if he’s correct? asks Martin Flanagan.
Defence spending boosted to 20-year high
Despite the economic downturn, the Australian armed forces’ budget is expected to rise to almost $24 billion this year, the highest level in 20 years.
Rudd looking for broadband experts
The Government placed ads in newspapers this weekend calling for “suitably qualified consultants” for a study to determine how the national broadband network will be built, financed and operated.
interviews 
Interview with Sergei Dvortsevoy
Cinetology interviews Russian film-maker and Tulpan director, Sergei Dvortsevoy.
Deconstructing Blair’s law
Daily Telegraph Opinion Editor Tim Blair is very proud of his eponymous “law”, which essentially says all Leftists are confused idiots who mindlessly support idiotic causes.
What Times readers really care about
Everyone loves a wordle — and everyone loves to see what readers actually read (as opposed to what they purport to read).
Prospects of a united Cyprus look dim
The prospects of a united Cyprus receded when a nationalist party won the parliamentary election recently.
The Danish Navy on the hunt
Like latter-day Vikings, the Danish Navy tours the treacherous Gulf of Aden hunting for Somali pirates. Monocle goes on board.
Military agency warned against torture in 2002
A US military agency warned the Bush administration in 2002 that harsh interrogation tactics could yield “unreliable information”. Looks like they didn’t listen.
Swine flu Q & A
With outbreaks in Mexico and the US (and New Zealanders suspected to be infected) the situation with swine flu is rapidly evolving. How does it spread? And is the WHO ready?
We’re mad about the Boyle
Her rendition of ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ from Les Misérables has had way more air time than Barack Obama’s inauguration speech. Here are the 10 craziest things said about Susan Boyle.
Bea Arthur: she ate sassy for breakfast
Physically (at five-nine), in her husky voice and in her imperious stature, she was a daunting presence, and even her nimblest one-liners seemed to vibrate up from deep in the earth.
RIP Bea Arthur, Golden Girl
She made her name as a Golden Girl, but Bea Arthur’s first love was the stage.
Sacked: British judge not above the law
Inappropriate, petulant, rude, intemperate and ill-judged. Why a judge has been sacked in Britain for the first time in decades.
Krugman: We need to investigate American torture and war
America is more than a collection of policies. We are, or at least we used to be, a nation of moral ideals. What next?
Subscriber only: how to make paywalls work
The Wall Street Journal was a pioneer of subscriber-only content and they did it really, really well… what happened?
British Grand Prix in doubt
The future of the British Grand Prix was hanging in the balance last night as the company that holds the race faced off legal action over unpaid rent. And more.
The big steal: looking back at a famous Pakistan win
A flashback to 15 years ago, when Pakistan famously put one over Australia in Karachi.
newspaper death watch Death of UK papers = death of digital archives
Media experts are worried about what happens to the archives when a regional paper goes bust.
Force’s Super 14 future bleak with player exodus
Western Force Super rugby players are now heading back across the Nullarbor or overseas to Europe or Japan.
Hadlee approached by US cricket promoters
New Zealand cricket legend Sir Richard Hadlee has been approached to be an executive board member of an American Premier League (APL) cricket tournament.
