In Sydney the car completely dominates. It’s serious business riding to work in a city where cycleways just suddenly end, writes Margaret Rice. Melbourne is a bit kinder.
July, 2009
The myth of the “recession-proof” job
The media is quick to slap the “recession-proof” label on just about any job these days — from lawyers to garbos — but the reality is that no-one remains unaffected by the recession, says Greg Burns — even the wealthy.
Showdown: news nerds vs. web wonks
Which media consumers are better informed: those who still unfold the daily broadsheet at breakfast, or those who surf the net for their news-fix?
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Jumping Jupiter! Planet gets hit
Something the size of Earth has smashed into Jupiter, leaving a black hole in its atmosphere. It was an amateur Australian astronomer who spotted the scar.
Twitter scores $48m worth of press in a single month
They may not have figured out a viable pay model yet, but the raging flood of press coverage poured on media-darling Twitter generated the company $48 million in free publicity last month alone, according to a news-monitoring service.
TIME’s top 25 blogs for 2009: the good, the bad, the inexplicable
TIME magazine has once again ranked named their most and least favourite blogs for the year. We take a look at who made the cut.
Crikey Says: How media’s myopia hurts economic analysis
Economic commentary in Australia is based on numbers of momentary significance, numbers which are loaded with meaning in the few minutes after their release and then promptly forgotten.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Oh, forgettery about it!
In today’s Daily Mail in-box, Crikey reader Megan Stoyles is pleased that “First Dog on the Moon has noticed and commented on Thérèse Rein’s Forgettery, revealed in Annabel Crabb’s interesting article”.
Morning Market Report: Australia’s economy might be OK
Access Economics says the Australian economy might have survived the worst of the credit crisis, predicting unemployment will peak at only 7.5% by the end of 2010, down from 8.5%.
Regulators tense as China’s bubble stretches tight
All the pieces of the next Chinese financial bubble and crash are in place.
Stokes’s $300m Cons Media plunge raises eyebrows and anxiety
Nervous watchers are wondering whether Kerry Stokes’s foray into Consolidated Media is a repeat of his plunge into West Australian Newspapers.
News comedy on the rise in Oz (even if it’s not The Daily Show)
With much fanfare, The 7pm Project finally arrived last night, the latest in a series of news-based comedy shows that have been popping up on Australian screens in the last few years, writes Courteney Hocking.
Ashes 09: Freddie fires, England wins
Australia came into the last day with a chance win the game. Andrew Flintoff picked up the chance, shook it, choked it, and then kicked it out of Lord’s. That was that, writes Jarrod Kimber.
Media briefs: Time’s Top 25 blogs … Buzz Aldrin wins MasterChef … Balance your media diet
TIME name their top (and bottom) blogs of the year, Slate pit newspaper readers against online news consumers, the true story behind Facebook and more news from the world of the media.
Literature? What’s that got to do with the price of books?
In all the talk of the Productivity Commission and the price of publishing, we shouldn’t forget that a book is not a novel. We shouldn’t be focusing on the container, but the content.
Terrorism in Indonesia has nothing to do with Afghanistan
Imagine a politician claiming that the best response to a bombing in Indonesia was to invade Afghanistan. We’d think they were perfectly mad.
RBA sees blue skies ahead
Til now, the Reserve Bank had been sitting and watching the stimulus and rate cuts work their way through the economy. But the central bank has just announced itself pretty happy at how it’s all going.
All the conspiracy theories are true!
Political Analysts from the First Dog On The Moon Institute can prove it!
Political snippets: Good economic news not so good for the Opposition
The stock market has dragged itself upwards and today the minutes of the last Reserve Bank Board meeting are talking again about China perhaps being after all Australia’s economic saviour. Poor Malcolm.
SBS’s Food Investigators gives a big GI tick to sugar
SBS’s Food Investigators contained the startling recommendation that 15-20% of your daily energy intake should come from sugar, writes David Gillespie. Say what?
Will we really love Coles? Thoughts on a female-friendly publicity stunt
Is there much beyond Coles’ special no-tax tampon offer than clever marketing? Mel Campbell suspects not.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The role of the public service: Crikey readers respond (with lots more on our website)
Following a speech from PM’s department head Terry Moran, we asked Crikey readers to muse on the role of the Australian public servant. Muse they did …
