Should Newcastle supporters ride to the rescue by joining forces to buy the club themselves?
June, 2009
Social media: the new punk rock?
PR company Engage ORM put together this video arguing that social media is “the new punk rock”. We remain slightly unconvinced, but it’s a great little clip.
The future is bleak
Manhattan floods, Chicago heatwaves and withering Californian vines: how scientists see the US in 75 years.
Questions your children ask me about sex
I volunteer teach sex ed for Planned Parenthood in the Los Angeles area, writes Adrian Colesberry. This week they’re asking about STIs and why pregnancy is so sexist.
NEW Vegemite? Are they mad?
Kraft have announced plans to create a “smooth, velvety” new Vegemite mixture that includes cream cheese. Will it be Australia’s answer to the notoriously disastrous New Coke?
Postmodern spruiking overload at The Age
Cabaret singer Melissa Madder Gray’s conducted a master class on self-promotion in last week’s Sunday Age.
Yet another delay (or extension) in Canwest’s death throes
Canwest have another new deadline to save themselves from Bankruptcy.
Crikey Says: Things the Australian media could focus on
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has just released its annual World Disasters Report. No mention of Gordon Ramsay in it…
Political snippets: Crikey Election Indicator meets Dancing With the Stars
Worlds collide as Richard Farmer applies the Crikey Election Indicator to Dancing With the Stars. Not that he watches it, of course.
If only newspapers were an iPhone app
The incredible success of iPhone apps has demonstrated the biggest tragedy of newspapers: their failure to find a viable micropayments system, writes Alan Kohler.
Qantas’ lucky escape from a British Airways merger
Qantas’s infatuation with a merger with British Airways late last year has been shown up as the aviation equivalent of buying the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Talking the Town: Talking the town: Therese Rein launches into a sea of hugs
Although Ms Rein’s pre-Kiliminjaro fitness program is strictly off-limits to the fourth estate, Crikey can exclusively reveal that she looked fantastic.
School gyms help Gillard up the list
Julia Gillard makes a rare appearance at number two thanks to a few hundred new school gyms.
The NSW government’s foray into blatant protectionism
The blatant protectionism in yesterday’s NSW budget could be highly damaging to Australia’s long-term economic interests.
To whom it may concern: How do I let go of regret?
P.C. of Malvern, Victoria asks: How do I let go of regret?
NSW Budget designed to save the government not the State
The NSW budget has provided the embattled Rees Government with a grab-it-while-you-can lifeline.
Guy Rundle: Forget the ALP, time for a Greens/unions unholy alliance
The Greens are the new Labour party. And it’s time the unions in question recognised it.
Tips and rumours: Who is your editorial manager and what does she do?
Seeing as the ABC in leaking like a sieve over the Chaser controversy, another employee gets in on the act. Plus more Westacott reminiscing, cheeky japes from the cricket world, the next appointee to the WA Supreme Court, and more.
Unions, thugs and Labor
The union movement remains deeply angered at the Government’s insistence on retaining a separate enforcement mechanism for the construction industry. The next week should be exciting.
Morning Market Report: Market struggles again
The market is having another lousy day, down 59.
Feed the birds, tuppence a bag
What possible motive could the frail old woman have doing the things she is alleged to have done to the really nice Mr Tuppence? The Kooka Brothers are on the trail.
Guy Rundle: What Gordon Brown did next … implode
The bizarre decision to hold a secret Iraq war inquiry may be the end of Gordon Brown.
