Afghanis headed to the polls on Thursday amidst fears of violent attacks from Islamist Taliban forces, writes Crikey intern Emily Finlay.
August, 2009
A Current Affair rapped over knuckles for hypnotising viewers
ACMA has just released a finding determining that that the Nine Network’s A Current Affair breached the code by allowing a segment to be broadcast whereby viewers might be hypnotised.
Baillieu’s Liberals not keen on new blood
The real scandal surrounding Victorian Liberal pre-selections is not in the challenges, it’s in the almost total lack of them.
Let the public make the call on Kyle and O, not ACMA
As odious as Kyle and Jackie O can be with their shock jock car crash radio stunts, they are a necessary part of free speech, which we consumers should police with the off button.
Queensland ALP embraces intra-factional bloodsports
The Queensland branch of the ALP is confronting a fresh factional crisis, with the forced departure of key staff and a funding crisis threatening to breach containment lines and escalate into open warfare.
Greg Baxter escapes the Hardie blame game
The banning and fining of 9 blokes and Meredith Hellicar over the James Hardie debacle appears to have ignored the source of the original “fully funded” asbestos claims.
Home birth wingnuts shouting down major steps forward for midwifery
No one is stopping Australian women who want home births from choosing them, writes Bernard Keane.
Morning Market Report: Market down 37
The market is down 37 but Wall St closed up 71 and earnings results are dominating the headlines.
Tips and rumours: Are you an assumed Mrs on your SMH sub?
What happens if The Sydney Morning Herald automatically assume you are a Mrs? Plus, how easy is it to use your Qantas credit?
Media briefs: When mullets attack … video ads in magazines
Another newspaper to close, bitter response to Freddo Frog game and when mullets attack.
Government 2.0 Taskforce: seeding a cultural revolution
Last night’s Government 2.0 Taskforce Road Show in Sydney didn’t look like the start of a revolution. Yet the Taskforce has indeed been charged with fomenting a cultural revolution.
Ashes 09: Tories and no balls everywhere at The Oval
There was no atmosphere at the Oval today, writes Jarrod Kimber.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Nuclear power and relations with China
Crikey readers weigh in on nuclear power, relations with China and the politics between the Greens and the Nationals.
My Cup Of Tea: VCA uprising engulfs Glyn Davis
University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Glynn Davis has a problem on his hands as unrest grows at the Victorian College of Arts.
And the Wankley goes to … Fashion Week coverage, belittling the big
For their championing of chubby, several media outlets have this week earned the Wankley.
Millionaire Factory turns corporate dud club
It takes a lot of talent to better the likes of Rodney Adler, Ray Williams and the other incompetents who gave Australia its biggest ever corporate loss, but this is exactly what Macquarie Bank has done.
Advisers revel in Origin largesse
If there was any doubt whether investment bankers prefer to be acting for vendors or purchasers, those reservations would have been quashed after noting how much Origin Energy allegedly paid its financial advisers.
Conroy’s anti-siphoning review set to king hit subscription TV
All the risks in the anti-siphoning review lie with the subscription television sector, or, as Stephen Conroy’s Department has taken to calling it in a minor but noticeable change of usage, the “pay television sector’.
To whom it may concern: On seeking justice
I’m not a vengeful person but I feel very ripped off to see that they won’t experience anywhere near the level of suffering that I’ve been through. Why does their punishment have such an effect on my happiness? asks K.B.
Treatment of asylum seekers in Thailand
Reports continue to appear of dreadful conditions and treatment of refugees and asylum seekers in countries such as Malaysia and Thailand, writes Andrew Bartlett.
Postcards from NYC: death of the music shop edition
What are music shops looking like in the Big Apple? Well, stuff the music shops, it’s the Apple store that’s getting all the traffic…
Pollies make friends, even with old enemies
Pollies may fight and bicker in parliament, but every so often, for a worthy cause, they do the political equivalent of holding hands and singing Kumbaya, writes Annabel Crabb.
Video of the Day: Fox News: the new liberals?
Lately Fox News have been complaining about the president, defending protesters and Damning The Man. Are they, gasp, the new liberals?
PODCAST: Tories Tories everywhere, Day One at The Oval
Crikey’s Leigh Josey talks to our Ashes correspondent Jarrod Kimber who attended the Day One of the Fifth Test at The Oval and witnessed a boring “Tory” crowd support a lacklustre England while he drank overpriced Pimms and lemonade.
