The beer-powered breweryGerman scientists have developed a way to turn beer breweries’ leftover grain into energy, simultaneously reducing their energy costs and the costs of transporting grain to farms.
August, 2009
Vogue and the chill of Wintour
Culture Mulcher reviews new film The September Issue a documentary about Vogue magazine and its notoriously icy editor, Anna Wintour.
Richer than the richest gold, if a farm’s got soul
Insipid food lines and factory farms full of antibiotics have replaced the traditional family farm, leaving modern day farming with no soul, writes Nicholas D. Kristof.
Is Ferris Bueller your business plan? He should be.
Be like Bueller: have fun, believe in yourself, look after your employees, plan ahead. Ferris Bueller should serve as business inspiration to us all, writes David Jackson.
Women break through Italian Mafia’s glass ceiling
Score one for the sisterhood: Female mobsters — or “Godmothers” — are on the rise amongst high-ranking members of Naples area crime families, as their husbands get knocked off or go to prison.
Crikey Says: Some free advice for Fairfax: don’t charge for online news
Why should Fairfax surrender its leading position to level the playing field and improve Murdoch’s second-class online status in Australia?
Lobbyists’ MP form guide: Hockey “buffoon”, Wong “least impressive”, Bishop “no cred”, Turnbull “no contest”
As an insight into the views of a senior Canberra lobbying outfit, these notes from Endeavour Consulting are priceless and very informative of what well-placed insiders think of key players in Canberra.
Lies: the constant of journalist-politician relations
Lies and politics go hand in hand and they’re the bane of political journalists’ lives. But was Malcolm Turnbull’s lie about Labor politicians wanting him in the ALP calculating or just delusional? asks Chris Wallace.
newspaper death watch Murdoch’s London’s freesheet bites the dust
Rupert Murdoch’s London freesheet The London Paper has passed away after three years, despite market dominance and growing advertising revenue.
VIDEO: Does The Daily Show choose humour over accuracy?
Is a humour-news hybrid show like The Daily Show’s first responsibility to generate laughter or accurate news? CNN’s Reliable Sources segment ponders the question.
“Hi, I don’t usually reply, but …” Women weigh in to Crikey
Last week we asked, why don’t women read Crikey? We’ve had a truckload of responses, and at the heart of this is a discussion about, well, the nature of discussion.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: A word on wordles
Crikey readers examine our worldle word-play, and discuss home births, nuclear power, super funds, Afghanistan and more.
Morning Market Report: Market off to a great start to the week
It’s been a great start to the week, following on from Wall St closing 156 higher on Friday, with the market up 113 and SFE Future up 69.
Small lenders making a comeback
While official figures indicate that the big banks still dominate mortgage sales, smaller institutions may be making a comeback, writes Ian Rogers.
The Dyer Index: lies, damn lies, and statistics
Which parts of Friday’s US economic figures may have frightened the horses and spooked the herd of investors?
ASIC steps up to the plate on market regulation
All market trading will now be monitored by ASIC while ASX will continue its prime role of supervising all listed companies.
Media briefs: London’s mX newspaper dead … Fairfax accuses website of plagiarism …
News Corp’s London freesheet gets the chop, Business Spectator is accused of plagiarism, Murdoch hosts a power publisher pow-wow and more news from the world of the media.
Shock! Tom and Katie in predictable paparazzo bust up
Paparazzo in Australia have gone on a TomKat hunt, with bonus points for Suri snaps. Unfortunately, it’s just another instalment in the making-news-is-like-making-sausages school of trash-mag rumour mongering.
Is money the only thing that motivate lawyers?
What motivates Australian lawyers? Money, according to a national survey published late last week. We asked two lawyers for their view. Greg Barns and Peter Faris weigh in.
Closures, cuts and sales, Murdoch’s new reality
The pace of change is picking up at News Corp, with some significant cost cutting and other revenue enhancing decisions made, under way, or imminent.
Crikey wrap: Let the Ashes blame game begin…
As the blame game begins, what is the world’s media saying about the Ashes? For a start, Ricky Ponting’s captaincy has been called into question, writes Crikey intern Emily Finlay.
