Wall St closed up 15 overnight. It is now up 10% in 14 days.
July, 2009
Morning Market Report: Markets continue their upward trend
Our health system serves most of us well. That’s the issue
The real political issue of the recently released health reform report is that our health systems — plural — are perceived as broken when in fact they’re not.
Lessons Rudd can learn from US health care
Rudd has something to learn from America’s health care system when it comes to reforming Australia’s health care. For example, how the US collects and analyses data in hospitals, writes Dr Lesley Russell.
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Annie get your gun: a history of international arms trading
Check out these maps showing where weapons have been flowing to and from for the past 59 years. Apparently Australia gets most of our killing machines from the US and Europe…
The politician for all seasons
It must be very hard for Tony Abbott’s Liberal Party colleagues to figure out whether they are going to get pragmatic Tony or policy purist Tony from one day to the next, writes Andrew Bartlett.
NSW Libs at loggerheads as intra-factional action heats up
The NSW Liberals’ religious right want to roll back secularism. But if they do that, hey’ll effectively make the Party unelectable. They’ll also be answering Nathan Rees’ prayers.
Prevention is impractical, but try telling that to the PM
Prevention is a health economist’s dream given the ageing of the population and the growth of chronic diseases. It’s better than cure, PM Kevin Rudd agreed yesterday, three times. But is that really true?
Web ads are not TV ads
Advertisers need to rethink web ads in light of the current recession and focus more on tracking customers’ data rather than bombarding with traditional TV style ads, say media execs.
Things that are sixteen per cent…
Malcolm Turnbull has called an urgent meeting with his Media Strategy Team…
CIA’s ‘ghost flights’ could go public
Secret details of the CIA program that sent terrorist suspects to countries and prisons where they could be tortured may soon become public, with the British aviation company that allegedly operated the off-the-grid “ghost flights” agreeing to give evidence.
AP: enemy of freedom or just misunderstood?
The internet exploded in a storm of indignation with news that the Associated Press plans to digitally track and protect all its online content. But is the AP really the greedy News Nazi it’s being made out to be?
Copy editors: they do more than fix typos
Notcing obvious erors in your daily newpaper raeds? An ex-Baltimore Sun copyeditor explains how copy editors are caught in the front of the media firing line, and what this means for newspaper quality.
Radio moves to online journalism
National Public Radio (NPR) is launching a new website to focus more on written news and journalism: “We are a news content organisation, not just a radio organisation”.
How to jog without falling down
French president Nicolas Sarkozy collapsed recently while jogging in Versailles. Looks like it was a case of overdoing it. Or medically speaking, a vasovagal episode. BBC asks just how risky jogging is.
PODCAST: What it takes to kill
Crikey ditor Jonathan Green chats with Crikey regular Jeff Sparrow about his new book, Killing, in which he explores what it means to snuff out a life from roo shooting to execution.
Desperately seeking Malcolm
I could imagine John Howard’s childhood geography, but not Malcolm Turnbull’s. If he can’t define himself as more than the sum of his ambitions and achievements, I think he will never be Prime Minister, says Michael Gawenda.
Meet the journalist of the future
Multimedia journalist Adam Westbrook imagines the media hack of the future: someone who has new and old technical skills, can build and run a website, has an entrepreneurial bent, and most of all, can still spin a good yarn.
Who would pay higher energy prices?
Who would wear the higher energy costs of an emissions trading scheme? Newspoll asked the question in 2008, and again this year. Overall numbers haven’t changed, says Possum, but the demographics sure have.
I’m being sued for millions for sharing mp3s
Joel Tenebaum faces up to $4.5m in fines for illegally downloading mp3s, but he’s refusing to “cave” to the music industry and its army of lawyers. He explains how sharing a few Nirvana tracks online has led to a multi-million dollar David vs Goliath battle.
Olé! Piñata bashing is recession busting
It’s GFC time and people are careful with their carefully earned moolah. They are still spending though, just on specific items that are important to their family and culture. Like … piñatas.
Rudd to visit hospitals for health reform planning
Kevin Rudd and Nicola Roxon are set to visit 25 teaching hospitals in a order to gain further understanding of where the problems in hospitals and health care lie - “warts and all”.
For Sale: New York flogs all its stuff
You know times are tough when New York Magazine writes a three page article about tips for garage sales with a suggested $20 maximum on any item.
Mousavi piles the pressure on Ahmadinejad
Mir Hossein Mousavi is stepping up the verbal attacks on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the embattled Iranian president continues to butt heads with colleagues and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the Iranian opposition leader “smells blood”.
Welfare of the nation: Obama’s health care plan translated
Do we really want Congress to pass a 1,000 page trillion dollar medical welfare bill that guarantees every American free healthcare regardless of their ability to pay? asks Bill Frezza.
