We feel that arson is warrantable grounds for expelling a student from the school body, writes Lowbottom principal Imre Kevorkian.
May, 2009
Lowbottom High Diaries: Arson and the relevance of Ukrainian
Media briefs: Stanhope vs. Canberra Times and WolframAlpha: funny but useless…
ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope takes on the Canberra Times, and we look at the next big thing in online search (apparently): WolframAlpha.
Tips and rumours: The great Papunya population mystery
Does Indigenous policy minister Alison Anderson have a hometown advantage? And is Oz editor Chris Mitchell finally stepping in between Nicolas Rothwell and Paul Toohey?
Whingers and rentseekers owe taxpayers billions in wasted time
What’s the cost to Australians each year of the time spent reading press articles and hearing news bulletins based on biased “independent” modelling generated by whingers and rentseekers?
Deconstructing the mining industry’s ETS data
A panel of Crikey experts deconstruct the mining industry’s job data manipulation for Australia’s emissions trading scheme.
Friday highlights: Best of the MP expenses scandal
In a week where the UK MP expenses scandal has unravelled faster than a ball of string in the paws of a kitten, it’s time to recap some of the highlights, like “best use of inappropriate funds”.
Talking the Town: Talking the Town: mutants and deviants at Bob Ellis’ book launch
Bob Ellis was his usual cantankerous, curmudgeonly, vastly-entertaining self at the launch of his new book last night, writes Margot Saville.
Hot Form Charts: Looks may be deceiving in Saints-Lions clash
The Saints and Lions both have impressive form going into Sunday’s clash, but looks can be deceiving.
OECD: Australia’s broadband is rubbish. Who knew?
The OECD’s latest broadband report confirms what we already know: Australia ain’t exactly the leader of the pack.
Guy Rundle: Greer bores the tits off the Sydney Writers’ Festival
The real Germaine Greer, the versatile commentator, is not the Germaine Greer of today’s audience’s beloved memory, the louche outrageous, liberatory author of the Female Eunuch, sudden and startling global figurehead.
Jenny Macklin explains her new Indigenous policy to Walter Slurry
Jenny Macklin on Closing the Gap, as told to Walter Slurry.
Crikey Says: Overseas Aussies can go it alone
Why do Australians assume they have a special right to be rescued from whatever trouble they get into while travelling overseas?
Indigenous life expectancy gap slashed
The ABS is about to dramatically intervene in the debate over the life expectancy gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.
Political snippets: NT Senator Nigel Scullion: our hero
Senators are now heroes in the Northern Territory… but down south they’re still ratbags, says Richard Farmer.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Rudd’s media manipulation and more
Crikey readers on Kevin Rudd, Beermat Mum and the pension.
Morning Market Report: Explaining the RIO re-jig
Marcus Padley explains what’s going down between RIO and Chinalco.
Growing plastic on trees
Scientists have created a way to cheaply and efficiently convert plant biomass into a basis for plastics and fuels.
Nova and Vega FM defy GFC
DMG Radio Australia increased its profits and grew its underlying revenue by 1%, despite a 4% decline in the radio advertising market in Australia.
WolframAlpha: a search engine that knows the meaning of life
WolframAlpha — is it really the Next Big Thing in online search? Eleri Harris looks at what the pundits are saying.
Jon Stanhope vs. The Canberra Times
A leaked email has revealed that tough-talking Labor ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope ordered his bureaucrats to prepare an “attack” on the media’s reporting of a land bank scheme he is championing.
The death of American Idol
In troubling news for the Fox Network, the two final nights of American Idol were among the least watched since the program started eight years ago.
