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August, 2009
Crikey Says: AFP get a lesson in cause and effect
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Name changers: just say no
Crikey readers speak out against married women changing their names, Jackie O, The Tele’s Tom Cruise tomfoolery and more.
Morning Market Report: Market, Wall St and dollar up
A good day for the market — up 51, while Wall St finished up 82 and the Aussie dollar rose.
Qantas down, Jetstar up. No happy landings
Qantas has dropped its profits even more sharply than most analysts had predicted, with announcements today that profits were down from A$1.4 billion to A$181 million.
Big Government hiding an inconvenient truth
If you believe Nobel-Prize winning New York Times commentator Paul Krugman, we’ve all been saved by the state and their quick thinking Big Government. Except, the worst may not be over.
Australia wins as the world economy re-aligns
The central economic problem is for Australia and the rest of the world is not the recession, the credit crunch, the stimulus spending, or even debt — it’s the sustainability of the recovery.
Media briefs: Facebook sued over privacy … News Corp to split Star TV
Facebook gets sued over failing to uphold promises on privacy. Also, MGM ousts CEO in favour of a sweet replacement and the media’s ‘Prince of Darkness’ dies at 78.
Nine shake-up embraces Seven’s success
The TV industry has been stunned by the the personnel involved in the latest reshuffle at Channel Nine, which seems like a round up of people involved in the low points of Australian TV.
Death of a hallowed South Korean democrat
Kim Dae-jung’s passing parallels the remarkable journey that South Korea has travelled since the Second World War.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Stephen Smith in top five
The Airlines PNG crash and icy diplomatic conditions with China took Stephen Smith up ten places to a rare appearance in the top five, while Wayne Swan dropped off.
Ruddinator 2: Judgment Day
Poor judgment. Bad judgment. Wrong judgment. Misjudgment. Flawed judgment. The word ‘judgment’ was uttered 24 times in Question Time yesterday.
From hype to backlash, Twitter’s path is inevitable
The Hype Cycle for 2009 places microblogging services like Twitter at the start of their descent into the Trough of Disillusionment — along with green IT and e-book readers, where they’ll join public virtual worlds like Second Life and online video.
Take the prostitutes out of my Cracker, please
A bunch of wiley po-stitutes are outwitting a reputable and large media company and putting the company in breach of the law, writes a concerned Cracker reader.
A ruddle: every word our PM has uttered, boiled into a Wordle
Everything that Kevin Rudd has ever said, boiled down into a Wordle.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Who ate all the yellowcake?
If you think it’s tough to get an incinerator built these days, trying putting a nuclear waste dump anywhere. Voters wouldn’t allow it, not in their backyards. Nuclear power is the defining struggle, around which a new politics is organised.
Fat chance of diet regulation, but we’ll weight and see
Will the weight loss industry just standing there and take the imposition of professional standards, set by the Preventative Health Taskforcem without a fight? Not likely, writes David Gillespie.
The new Canberra buzzword: anti-non-decoupling
The question of continued stimulus is the toughest policy call since an inexperienced and under-informed Reserve Bank and the Hawke Government tried to manage the ’80s boom.
Hong Kong now News Corp’s fading star
In this email, James Murdoch tells how he will shuffle the cards at News Corp’s Asian satellite TV operation.
Paul Howes’ u-propaganda is radioactive
Regurgitating industry propaganda might go down well at the Sydney Institute but it is no substitute for informed debate on nuclear power, writes Jim Green.
Why don’t we hear these stories about Aboriginal Australia?
You might not guess it from the photos in the newspapers, but the largest concentration of Aboriginal people in Australia lives in western Sydney, writes anthropologist Professor Gillian Cowlishaw.
The CFA myth and other fables the Commission failed to fire
Five myths — maybe six — have to be debunked to clear the way to genuine reform of Victoria’s bushfire policies, writes Frank Campbell.
Political snippets: Campaigning for second preferences
Preferences set to play a big role in NSW politics, the two very different perspectives of Stephen Smith and Bob Brown, and the on-again off-again romance between China and Australia.
Rudd’s stimulus has nothing to do with the economy
The Australian economy has proven to be remarkably resilient — but it has very little to do with the Federal government’s stimulus package, writes Sinclair Davidson.
