The company currently running Melbourne’s train network is tipped to lose the contract to Keolis, a French transport group that’s partly owned by SNCF.
June, 2009
South Carolina Governor admits affair — GOP weeps
Governor Sanford’s teary admission of an affair comes just after Nevada’s Senator John Ensign admitted the same. That’s two potential, eloquent 2012 Republican presidential nominees shamed in two weeks.
Iran’s fraught relationship with Britain
Perceptions of Britain as the “wily fox” run deep in the Iranian political class — some are even convinced that American foreign policy is dictated by Whitehall, says Ali Ansari, giving context to recent developments.
Why Obama is right to talk to Ahmadinejad
Now that he’s condemned the repression, let’s hope Obama goes back to his original plan of trying to get Iran to the table, writes Robert Dreyfuss.
Bartlett: What matters about Utegate
The endless hours the press has devoted to Utegate have been at the expense of examining issues, policies and legislation that directly affect people’s lives — such as the ETS, writes Andrew Bartlett.
BEST OF TODAY’S COMMENTARY
- AKERMAN: Get the truth before the ute bolts
- CRABB: Parliament turns into a bad Harry Potter novel
- ATKINS: Turnbull gets derailed by ego
- KERR: Infected anger
OECD: You’ll get yours, Australia
The Australian economy will not be spared from the GFC carnage, says the OECD. The body predicts the economy will shrink 0.4%, unemployment will climb to 8% and more.
The Zimbabwean‘s ads are the money
The Zimbabwean newspaper’s ad campaign, which mocked the regime with taglines like “It’s cheaper to print this on money than on paper”, has netted a gold lion award at Cannes.
Supreme Leader’s son has big ambitions
Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s supreme leader, wields considerable power and is a key figure in orchestrating the crackdown against anti-government protesters, analysts say.
Breakfast Media Wrap: Move aside ute gate – enter the breast feeding controversy
The pick of the morning media as ute gate vanishes from most front pages
Teens score Twitter book deal
Two 19-year-olds have signed a deal with Penguin to release their book “Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books, Now Presented in Twenty Tweets or Less”, which they describe as a “hipster’s Cliff Notes”
Oh, the irony: Wired editor steals content for book about free content
The Virginia Quarterly Review have found a bunch of plagarised passages in Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson’s new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price — mostly ripped from Wikipedia.
Corporate creation myths and why we need them
You can’t truly have a runaway business success these days unless your company started out as one guy in a garage, building everything on home-spun smarts and the smell of an oily rag… or at least that’s what you have to tell people. Dan Heath explains why.
How Rahm Emanuel mastered the media
Howard Kurtz explains how White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel plays the nation’s press like a cheap fiddle.
History lesson: Iran had a democracy before US intervened Roadkill of the Week: feral cat
Bob Gosford continues his graphic series of interesting roadkill he runs into in the Top End. Warning: innards on display.
podcast Canberra Calling: Utegate uncovered Crikey style
How it’s unfolding, what it means and why anyone cares.
Bake a gooseberry cake
In the 19th Century, England was mad for gooseberries in all forms: pies, puddings and wines. Recreate the fervour with this gooseberry cake.
Haiku for Mickey Rourke
Mickey, Mickey, no. Your lunacy can charm, yes. But you need a shirt. The Go Fug Girls counsel the sartorially unhinged actor.
MP expenses the Musical!
The Queen’s composer, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, is writing a comic opera about the MPs’ expenses scandal that “outraged”him. And yes, it may feature duck houses and moats.
Steve Fielding: sorry, I’m just not convinced
Senator Steve Fielding has now released a document — with help from climate-sceptic scientists — stating that “global temperature isn’t rising” and he won’t risk jobs on “unconvincing green science”.
Lacroix: ‘I am too angry to cry’
Were his father alive today, Christian Lacroix admits, he would be agonised to learn that his son’s celebrated couture house – currently owned by the US-based Falic Group – has gone into voluntary receivership as a consequence of 10 million euro losses.
Yuppies v Punks for a working week
Who has the superior lifestyle: hand-to-mouth agitators or the city-boy capitalists they abhor? Vice Magazine assigned one staff writer to pose as a punk and another as a plutocrat to investigate.
Baseless claims are Turnbull’s MI
This isn’t the first time Malcolm Turnbull has come out firing with accusations he can’t substantiate, says Ben Eltham — he made the same mistake as a lawyer during the Costigan Royal Commission over 20 years ago.
Aussie agencies clean up in Cannes
Australian media agencies have been cleaning up at the Media Lions awards in Cannes. Crikey work experience kid Cameron Magusic has a look at the winners so far.
How to be a photographer in a warzone
Straight out of school and dreaming of some hair-raising adventures on the battlefield with your Coolpix? Slow down there, Larry: photographer Michael Kamber has a few hard-learned lessons from the frontlines of Somalia to share with you.
