Joyce: Jetstar can’t ease the squeezeQantas head Alan Joyce admits Jetstar is limited in its capacity to ease profit and capacity pressure on the parents company.
April, 2009
Oxbridge presses aren’t charities
Cambridge and Oxford University Presses are recieving tax breaks through a charity loop-hole.
Australia to boycott anti-racism conference
The government will boycott the UN Durban Review conference in Geneva this week, due to concerns of anti-Semitism.
Making taxis tech
New York is asking for suggestions to make its taxis technologically savvier. Could everything be achieved with iPhones?
Exxon Mobil beats Wal-Mart to Fortune 500 top spot
The widely watched Fortune 500 list, released on Sunday, showed that the world’s largest listed oil company regained the top spot by making $442.9bn of revenue in 2008, in spite of the decline of energy prices.
The ultimate IPL guide
A run-down of the most entertaining players in India’s Twenty20 league.
Film review: The Boat That Rocked
The cast crackle with energy but Richard Curtis’s grasp of comedy struggles and the plot is hit and miss.
Boeing drops hints of a new super green 737
Boeing may be close to launching a major upgrade to its 737 single aisle jet family.
It’ll cost more than $5 billion to save Pakistan
The $5 billion in aid pledges collected in Tokyo on Friday was $1 billion more than the US had expected. But Richard Holbrooke, special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, says it might be only a tenth of what the nation actually needs.
America’s hippie news station
The TEA party protests turn Fox News into long-haired fascism decriers.
German lawyers to defend Somali pirates
The yanks are up in arms to get the pirates off the high seas, meanwhile the Germans are gathering a force to defend the African buccaneers from the impending legal storm.
Batten down the hatches: economy could get grimmer
Recovery from the recession, when it comes, will be slow and painful.
In the wake of war crimes
The blogosphere reacts to President’s Obama release of the Bush torture memos.
Bake off: NYC’s finest cupcakes
Fifteen bakeries — from Brooklyn’s Baked to Two Little Red Hens uptown — dropped off more than 75 cupcakes to New York Magazine headquarters for judgement day.
American newsroom employment lowest since 1978
Jobs for journalists in the USA have fallen in a serious downward spiral in the last year, but on the plus side online journalism employment rates are up more than 20%.
Google gets froogle
Even Google gets the blues. The behemoth’s revenues in the first quarter of this year fell below the preceding quarter for the first time in the company’s history.
Why things are stilll baaaaad
Don’t count your recoveries before they’re hatched, writes Paul Krugman.
BrisConnections saga: where is ASIC?
One missing elephant in the BrisConnections room has been Australia’s corporate watch-dog, ASIC.
Carbon capture and storage is an expensive pipe dream
Carbon capture and storage may be possible, but it certainly does not look commercially feasible.
Markets charge ahead, fundamentals falter
With green shoots everywhere, the markets are charging on, ignoring any number of worrying warning signs.
White arsonists by the boatload
Will politicians and shockjocks now start whispering about how country Victorians started the bushfire disaster themselves?
Why spending more won’t mean better health
Health outcomes and health outputs do not necessarily align, writes Patrick Bolton.
Boat people: Australia talks back
Nothing melts the talkback lines better than boat people. Mel, Chris, Val, Rober, Kay, Ron and Melba all have an opinion.
Fiji’s constitutional coup
Soldiers in newsrooms, judges sacked, constitution in tatters … but life goes on in Fiji.
Crikey Says: Bolt plumbs new depths in asylum seeker debate
Comments by Andrew Bolt and co. in the 36 hours since the Ashmore explosion show politics and public debate at their absolute worst.
