Former Canberra Treasury official David Eastman will return to the ACT this week.
May, 2009
Australia moves a fraction up the shame table of indigenous health
The ABS’s new work on indigenous death rates has dramatically narrowed the calculated life expectancy gap between indigenous Australians and the overall Australian community.
Tips and rumours: Next problem for the NRL?
Harvey Norman threatens to withdraw support, Westpac wage freeze, nut contamination. All stories in today’s Tips & Rumours section.
Morning Market Report: ASIC remove the shortening ban on financials
ASIC have ended the shortening ban early, while the market and the Dow are down.
Another NSW Ambulance call centre stuff up
A Crikey reader from NSW tells of her nightmare getting an ambulance in a rural area.
Triple hit will test global markets
A big test for global markets will come this week with a record $US101 billion of Treasury bond and note auctions in America.
Writers’ fest does blogging. Your thoughts?
To blog or not to blog? That was just one of the questions posed by moderator Rachel Hills to a panel of bloggers, journalists and one burnt-out ex-journalist at a Sydney Writers’ Festival gig on Sunday.
Employee share scheme backdown a farce
Despite the outrage, there are actually many more winners from the Rudd government’s proposed changes to the way employee share schemes are taxed than losers.
Mungo MacCallum: Rudd’s spin and evade deficit manoeuvre fails
If the Rudd Government’s evasive behaviour in talking about the deficit in the media was supposed to be a cover up it was a remarkably ineffective one, writes Mungo MacCallum.
BRW Rich List 200: a sneak peek
On Thursday, BRW magazine will release its annual Rich 200 edition, which promises to be one of most fascinating in years. James Thomson provides a sneak peak.
Alston’s cold, dead hand still controls broadband
The National Broadband Network should be the solution to Australia’s commerical television woes. It isn’t.
Take a shortcut to riches with Alumina
Shareholders are set to reap dividends if they plunge money into Alumina shares this afternoon, writes Stephen Mayne.
Take a deep breath, Swine Flu’s not that bad
Swine flu is not hyper-virulent. While it spreads relatively easily it does not appear to be any more virulent that the strains we have circulating every year around the world, writes microbiologist Peter Collignon.
The networks’ latest lineup is all about fantasy
Doctors and a bit of fantasy dominate the programs picked up by Australia’s three commercial networks for later in the year and 2010.
Media briefs: Tweeting one’s narcissm
Self-indulgence on Twitter (no!), a scathing review of Uluru’s Yulara resort, why journalism can outlive newspapers and more from the world of media.
Echidnas for Retention of the Five Cent piece
Clare Werbeloff and Corey Worthington have been invited to attend a meeting.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Australians overseas behaving badly
Crikey readers on Aussie travellers, Germainem Greer, the Age Pension and more.
Ken Judge’s Hitler hilarity face-palm
AFL commentator Ken Judge has outraged listeners with an on-air comment.
The $100m match
With $100m on the line, it’s the richest single game of sport in the world — but you’ve probably never heard of it…
Democracy won’t die with newspapers
The decline of newspapers does not mean the end of journalism, says journalist Tom Regan.
The field guide to roadkill: Don’t swerve!
A new book, Roadkill is packed with all sorts of useful (and some irreverent and funny) suggestions for what to do with minced roo and more, writes Bob Gosford.
How Sesame Street changed the world
How a bunch of puppets have shaped lives and culture around the globe.
Everything you know about Iran is wrong
They may not want the bomb after all, writes Fareed Zakaria and other myths unmasked.
Obama’s book club
Move over Oprah — the new celebrity reader publishers want attached to their titles is Barack Obama.
