Will the ABC executive perform a “rap dance” (a “dance” presumably pronounced with a long a) as part of their ABC indigenous staff team building? At least there are no plastic chains this year.
October, 2009
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: The biennial ABC indigenous staff love-in
Do the Coalition shuffle!
Whatever happened to the Coalition reshuffle? Remember that? But reshuffles create losers and Malcolm Turnbull, who is one major brain explosion away from losing the leadership, has enough enemies as things stand.
Morning Market Report: All S&P 500 sectors down
The market gave away early gains with all ten S&P 500 sectors finishing lower. Wall street finished down 104, and the domestic market is down 45.
NAB sees blue skies ahead
The NAB’s quarterly business survey shows improvements in confidence, expectations and conditions ahead of tomorrow’s important consumer inflation figures.
NT police officer charged over death of mentally ill man
The justice system will finally re-examine the use of police force in the death of filmmaker Bob Plasto, and reassess the training of NT police officers in dealing with mentally ill people.
Bottom falling out of US newspaper circulations
No matter which way you look at it, the latest circulation figures from the embattled US newspaper industry are a disaster, with circulations falling more than 10% in the six months to September — the biggest fall ever.
US economy flirting with the repo men
The overnight repo market holds the key to Wall Street’s bubble-driven economy. The crazy days of 2008 have now been laid bare, writes Julian Gillespie.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Asylum seekers, Wilson Tuckey and gobbledygook
Crikey readers weigh in on the hysteria over asylum seekers, the prospect of Tamil Tigers being in Australia and climate currency leakage.
Hamilton: Why I am standing for the Greens in Higgins
Crikey regular Clive Hamilton explains why he is running in the Higgins by-election as a candidate for the Greens, and says that climate change won’t be the only issue he’ll be campaigning on.
Media briefs: Nine tries to buy some men … Is Apple’s Tablet its next big thing?:
The Nine Network’s Top Gear is going to cost significantly more than previously thought. Will it attract the fellas and make a profit? Plus, Facebook App developers are making big cash.
Guy Rundle: We don’t need new fast trains, Albo, we need new cities
When it comes to infrastructure, what we need first and foremost are not new rail lines. Not even fast rail lines. What we need are new cities.
My shovel’s better than yours: Rudd v Howard on infrastructure
Federal politicians are falling over themselves to claim credit for spending taxpayer’s money on infrastructure, writes Alan Moran. Too bad public projects are never judged with the same rigor as private projects.
Lessons from a new German government
The recent Germany elections have provided a few lessons that Australia could learn. For example, a coalition should be a post-election decision, not a permanent state of affairs.
“Oi! That’s my mX!” Are free papers fair game?
Should you share your mX or City Weekly with total strangers just because you didn’t pay for it? Julie Bindel rails against the rise of “newspaper vultures”, who swoop in on your free rag as soon as you put it down on the train.
RIP GeoCities: a loss for fluro text, animated GIFs and endless Midi files
Today, Yahoo is finally euthanising GeoCities, the original free, design-you-own webpage service where many netizens got their first taste of web mastery and popped their HTML cherries. Vale.
Colebatch: Stop tooting your own horn Ken Henry, the economy ain’t that good
If the Australian economy passed the GFC test as Ken Henry claims, then we should expect government guarantees whenever financial markets cut off funds to Aussie lenders. This isn’t something to be proud of, writes Tim Colebatch.
Why is the White House throwing red meat to Fox’s angry white men?
The public don’t expect cable news networks to be unbiased or accurate, so the White House’s war on Fox News is futile, and just makes the station even more popular with its core conservative constituency, says Louis Menand.
Why the Golden Arches got frozen out of Iceland
No more fries with that. Iceland’s economy suffered the GFC worst than most and the collapse of the krona means that importing buns and burgers has become too costly for McDonald’s to keep its stores open.
The (Dis)Information Age: how the internet is making us stupider
Despite the rhetoric of “openness”, the internet is actually making us more narrow-minded by allowing us to filter what we read to suit our own viewpoints, says a new book by academic Cass Sunstein. How else can you explain the absurd ideas of the “birthers” gaining a foothold?
Hooray for cliché!
Leave clichés alone! says James Parker (especially that little viral YouTube classic): adages, catchphrases and idioms go viral for a reason, and writers should use them with pride.
Throwing Australian liberalism a lifeline
Liberalism in Australia stagnated under the Howard government, becoming a defender of the status-quo with a stance indistinguishable from conservatism, says Andrew Carr. Embracing a modern liberal revival could help the Libs reach the ever-elusive Gen-Y demographic.
John Kerry searches for his political legacy
John Kerry may have discovered the issue that will get him written into the history books: emissions trading. He’s working on a compromise bill for the Senate, but how many favours will he need to dole out to get it passed?
VIDEO: Richard Dawkins on Bill O’Reilly
The first step in having more effective, intelligent public discussion about important issues should be to get rid of unqualified TV hosts like Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, says biologist Richard Dawkins.
