The wheels are fast falling off some of Australia’s industrial success stories of the past decade.
April, 2009
It’s Super 14 crunch time, but for which teams?
So we’ve reach crunch time for the top teams. But the beauty of this year’s tournament is that any result is possible.
He got game … and a Rolls Royce
After the season, professional basketball players’ mission is to get their luxury vehicles shipped home safely — across the country, or even across the world.
The most deadly creature on the planet
The lion? Great White? Poison dart frog? Nope, it’s the mozzie, actually…
Jobless threat makes mockery of US “rebound”
The latest so-called “Beige Book” from the US Federal Reserve is the most ‘cheery’ in months, despite the imminent threat provided by unemployment.
Political snippets: A double dissolution trigger is coming
It has been a while coming but Labor will have its double dissolution trigger soon enough. All in the name of alcopops.
Liverpool remembers Hillsborough football disaster
At 3pm yesterday, Anfield, home of Liverpool football club, was transformed into the city’s third cathedral. Bells chimed 96 times and the names of those who never returned from a football match were read out.
Media are stabbing in the dark to survive
Media managers are jumping on the bandwagon of every new technological trend that comes their way in an attempt to survive — but will that work without a clear plan of attack?
AP: 11 reasons why we’re fighting aggregation
The Associated Press explain how they want to save the future of news media with intellectual property protection.
Don’t mock the mocktail
Don’t laugh, mocktails are serious business.
India: The biggest election in the whole wide world
In a process will run for another month, voting begins today in India, the world’s largest democracy.
The seven sins of greenwashing
Of 2,219 products from North American retailers making environmental claims, researchers have found that “over 98%” committed one of several “sins.”
Flower accepts the poisoned chalice
A dogged refusal to buckle has long been a characteristic of the man who has been appointed England’s new cricket coach.
graph pr0n Comitatus: Rudd vs Howard at 17 months
Another quarter has passed, so it’s probably time we updated our Howard vs. Rudd polling comparisons.
Get over it media giants, we’re going to co-opt your copy
Borrowing, sponging, lifting, scrounging, leaching, pinching, and outright theft of other publications’ work is firmly in the American journalistic tradition, says Slate’s Jack Shafer.
Oscar De La Hoya carried boxing
He won 10 titles in six weight classes and generated just shy of $700 million in pay-per-view revenue. Boxing was lucky to have him.
Richmond, a club in search of a spine
It might have been just a blip in time but it represented two decades of a club that has swung between rabble and ridicule.
Indonesia’s post-election shake-up
Indonesia’s political parties are now jockeying to form coalitions in a major re-ordering of that country’s political landscape.
NSW anti-corruption watchdog faces unrelenting pressure
Yet another attempt has been made to re-define the meaning of “corrupt conduct” as determined by the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Guy Rundle: Last days of the UK Independent?
The UK Independent may die before the summer.
I’ll compile your secret black list, Minister Conroy
If you want the country moulded by an invisible hand, Stephen, and I notice you do, then I’m the guy, writes Anson Cameron.
Big issue no-one is game to tackle
The Pacific Island player — now representing 40% of the NRL — is the elephant in the rugby league dressing room.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Why New Zealand is like a German Land
Frank Costigan … First Dog and Christianity … Intra-Zionist Nazi name-calling
Poynter Online / Thursday, 16 April 2009
When you’re trying to foster a conversation about race, how do you choose who to include and who to exclude?