News junkies wanting to locate hard copies of rural and interstate newspapers in Melbourne’s CBD are on a fool’s errand. Andrew Crook knows, he embarked on a fruitless search through the city.
July, 2009
Guy Rundle: Digging deep for the roots of urban violence
Respect: that is the demand beneath most of the violence that’s suddenly become more visible, mobile, and common.
Rudd only needs three hours sleep? Tell him he’s dreaming
The claim to get by on very little sleep is very common amongst high performing professionals, although rarely as true as they would want us to believe, writes Professor Drew Dawson.
A Liberal fable: once upon a time on a small, blue planet …
A small, relatively insignificant country in the planet’s southern hemisphere, which produces about 2% of the carbon causing the problems, is furiously debating how to move away from a dependence on carbon. Not that it will make a difference.
Tips and rumours: DFAT wants Turnbull and Bishop to butt out?
A Crikey tipster writes: A DFAT legal adviser told us the current case of Mr Hu is being compromised by ill informed megaphone behaviour of the Opposition leaders.
The cruel irony of the business-news business
As the global financial crisis collapses companies around the world, the very journalists and titles that should be covering the carnage are being hit just as hard.
Companies struggle to plug online leaks
More and more workers are leaking embarrassing and confidential information from their workplace (or former workplace) online, fueled by a rise in both unemployment and the popularity of social networking. This just in: The Crikey office is out of biscuits.
Victorian government gets behind authors
Victorian Premier John Brumby, often regarded as a pro-market economic rationalist, has slammed the Productivity Commission’s call to end protection of the local book industry. In fact, it’s state policy.
Singapore Airlines’ gift to cattle class
The bean counters love a seat squeeze on planes. The latest version of this sort of bastardry is the changing of nine across seating in economy in Boeing 777s to ten across. But Singapore Airlines has drawn a line.
World turns blind eye to North Korea’s labour camp abuse
The 200,000 prisoners in North Korea’s gulag subsist on a diet of corn and salt, live in rags, work 12- to 15-hour days and are regularly beaten and raped. So why aren’t the world’s leaders (or Bono) paying attention?
Murdoch’s WSJ: two years on
Two years since Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal, and fears he’d stuff it up seem unfounded: the paper is still going strong, but has undergone a significant image and content makeover.
Balibo: another great Aussie film
Balibo — based on the true story of five Aussie journalists (aka The Balibo Five) who were murdered by Indonesian militia — is knock out stuff: taut as all hell, a stick of dynamite lit and tossed into the audience’s faces.
Five reasons we know the moon landing was real
Still a moon landing skeptic? AskMen count down five top pieces of evidence that man really did set foot on the moon.
MasterChef a masterclass in what Australians want
If viewers had thought this was just a cooking competition Chris’ departure answered that. No, writes Tony Richardson, MasterChef dished up likeability and showed marketers what 4 million Australian consumers want.
1969: not just the moon landing
When man first walked on the moon, he did so against the backdrop of creativity, chaos, violence and hope that defined the ’60s. The NYT revisits 1969.
PODCAST: Crikey Sports looks back at the Second Ashes Test at Lord’s
Crikey’s Leigh Josey talks to our Ashes correspondent Jarrod Kimber after the Second Ashes Test at Lords. Includes discussion of Freddie Flintoff’s individual destruction of Australia, losing an Ashes Test and drinking beer at Lord’s.
Joseph Stiglitz: America’s most important ignored economist
Joseph Stiglitz has long been hellbent on proving that free markets do not provide the best economic outcomes. He predicted the GFC; overseas they love him. So why does Washington snub him?
Fashions on the field: space suits
A collection of photos from the US National Air and Space Museum’s exhibition of Apollo 11 artifacts, featuring some of the wackier space suit fashions of the ’60s.
Buzz Aldrin: satellite of solitude
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin tells the story of Apollo 11 and the “magnificent desolation” of walking on the moon.
It’s a good time to be dispensing drugs
While wages for investment banking associates have dropped by 30-40% in America’s recession, some professions are on the up in the downturn. And at the top of the pile: pharmacy.
Mexican drug lords’ narco-bling
When Mexican drug cartels are busted up, what happens to their leopard-skin Rolexes, pet gorillas, and diamond-encrusted pistols? The WSJ investigates.
Malcolm’s risky business
Any attempt by Malcolm Turnbull to compromise and pass the Government’s emissions trading scheme next month will put the Opposition Leader on a collision course with his party, writes Phillip Coorey.
Video of the Day: Cadbury’s sneaky 20% downsize
A lesson in clever marketing: how Cadbury have sneakily shrunk their 250g chocolate block to 200g — without changing the size of the packaging or the price.
Malcolm “out on a limb” Turnbull pushes climate change plan
Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull, weakened by Utegate, has taken another risk, asking his shadow cabinet to be proactive on the Emissions Trading Scheme rather than delaying it next month.
