Coffee is good for you (or if you do enough research you can prove anything)Go ahead: That cup of joe won’t hurt you, the latest research says. It might even help you. But caveat emptor, it’s not as simple as it sounds.
May, 2009
PR tips for an accident-prone Pope
Just be yourself. And other words of wisdom to help lift Pope Benedict XVI out of controversy.
Time to go, Michael Martin
House of Commons Speaker Micahel Martin deserves some of the blame for the MP allowances fiasco, but his inadequecy as a leader is the real reason he should be replaced.
iPhone apps for political wonks
Mashable rates the top 5 iPhone apps for political junkies.
Obama ushers in new era of fuel efficiency
President Obama announces tough new nationwide rules for automobile emissions and mileage standards, embracing standards that California has sought to enact for years over the objections of the auto industry and the Bush administration.
On slow news days and stealing from pubs
Why do people think property theft is OK when it’s done inside their local pub? asks Ruth Brown.
Guy Rundle: The deep wormy rot of English politics
The improvised nature of British political institutions has always been something that anglophiles have celebrated. The downside is that it gives you plenty of places to hide.
Oops Terry’s terrible Tuesday: how the media botched a Tiger (non) sacking
Richmond FC, and its coach Terry Wallace, have so far had a season to forget. But they didn’t deserve the botched misreporting of Wallace’s (non) sacking that played out this morning across Melbourne.
APN enters trading halt, taps market
APN News & Media went into a trading halt this morning, pending the raising of a minimum $79 million from a share issue.
Desperate LNP phones a friend over Chatsworth
A full eight weeks after the polls closed in Queensland, the to-and-fro over the state seat of Chatsworth continues to bumble along.
Private equity barbarians turned away at the gate
It wasn’t long ago when the mere mention of private equity players would send shudders through the veins of even the toughest non-executive chairman. No longer.
Political snippets: How the papers deal with Newspoll figures they don’t like
The Oz and Fairfax mangle the polls for Labor and Liberals, while somewhere on the internets, the Australian Democrat corpse is attempting to rise from it’s grave.
Millions of dollars and 14 years later: is Australian health care any safer than before?
Almost 14 years after a study showed many patients are harmed as a result of their health care, we still do not know whether Australian hospitals are any safer today.
Crikey Says: Things are brighter than the Government would have us believe
Rudd feels it necessary to ramp up the rhetoric of grim times and tough policy responses — but the reality is far brighter.
Budget causes Rudd honeymoon to end… according to Fairfax
Nielsen never actually demonstrated the political change that Fairfax had projected onto it — it was just poor analysis.
Morning Market Report: ANZ and Amcor likely to raise over $1bn
A good day with the market up 80, and rumour has it that ANZ and AMC will be raising some capital.
Turning to politicians to prop up newspapers
Last week two governments in two countries on either side of the globe took unprecedented steps to ensure the survival of print journalism.
Media briefs: News Ltd’s shameless cross promotion
News Ltd spent the weekend partaking in foxy cross-promotions, the Guardian accidently provoked a fight with Norway, while infamous newspaper jail-bird and former media tycoon Conrad Black appealed his conviction in the United States.
Why Bush invaded Iraq: the war on Gog and Magog
The Rumsfeld memos are extraordinary, but there is another, perhaps more alarming, story about Bush’s Christian fundamentalism and the Iraq War that has yet to come to light.
Nats don’t mind a rural rort, as long as it goes to their constituents
The collapse of Timbercorp and Great Southern is at least partly the consequence of the Howard Government’s attempts to regain control of agricultural managed investment schemes.
