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November, 2009
Silicon sweatshops
Global Post is running a five-part investigation into the dubious labour practices of the Third World factories manufacturing the First World’s favorite high-tech gadgets. How cool does your iPhone look now?
Bartlett: Five years later, Palm Island is still waiting
One of the most telling aspects of the terrible injustices involved in the death in police custody of Palm Island man Mulrunji Doomagee is that, five years on, there has been no public investigation and report, writes Andrew Bartlett.
Time‘s nerdy new tech site
Time has taken a gamble by entering the already bloated market of tech sites with its new venture Techland. Can it really bring anything new to the web? It sure is purty.
Humans first, journalists second
A sample of some of the very moving case studies collected for the Centre for Advanced Journalism’s report into the journalism of Black Saturday.
One.Tel morning after, a word with Jodee, journalists and bushfire, Nukes? Not so much 
UN sends Nicolas Cage to fight Somali pirates
Clearly the most qualified candidate for the roll, actor Nicolas has gone to Africa to meet with jailed Somali pirates in his capacity as a “Goodwill Ambassador on Drugs and Crime” for the UN.
Crikey Says: Packer and Murdoch can’t buy their way out of this one
In throwing out the ASIC case against the One.Tel founders, the NSW Supreme Court demolished the idea that two of Sydney’s richest kids — the Packer heir James and the Murdoch heir Lachlan — were unsuspecting victims of One.Tel management in the failed telco’s boardroom.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Is Tom Cruise crazier than the Pope?
Crikey readers battle it out over tax-free status for religions, Olympic funding, video game ratings and, for a change, climate change.
Morning Market Report: Housing disappoints
Housing Starts and Building Permits for October disappointed as Wall St fell 11 overnight. The local market is up 18.
Media briefs: How to be a prize-winning author … NT News’ issue of the day …
For the low, low price of $69.99, you too can be a prize-winning author! Plus Coke’s social media extravaganza, LinkedIn hits home, and the NT News’s poop scoop.
A compromise on Crawford: change the KPIs
The Crawford report has succeeded, at the very least, in opening up for debate whether the government gets “value” out of the money spent on sports programs, writes John Orchard.
Only a Senate inquiry can sort out One.Tel mess
Whilst ASIC has received the mother of all beltings in today’s papers for the failure to string up former One.Tel CEO Jodee Rich, more attention should be focused on the role played by Australia’s politicians and the Murdoch and Packer families.
The long road to balance in the breast screening debate
Many women’s support and information groups are still encouraging women to disbelieve good evidence of over-diagnosis and over-treatment for breast cancer prevention, writes Hazel Thornton.
Datapig: the facts on boat people, graphed for your pleasure
All the facts on the numbers of people arriving in Australia by boat since 1989, graphed for your pleasure.
Turkey debates a deal with terrorists
Turkey’s government is showing that an “Islamist” party can become a force for democracy and progress, challenging so many of our usual assumptions about Muslims, terrorism and the Middle East.
Callan to Breaker: a little of us in all Woodward
Edward Woodward, the man who played Callan and Breaker Morant, is dead. He should be honoured in Australia for playing a wronged anti-hero of the Boer war, writes Peter Craven.
How will the CPRS Carnival end?
In the next week or so, the carnival of climate carpetbaggers is about to fold its tents on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. How it will all end up is still anyone’s guess, writes John Connor.
Journalists adrift: the reporting of Black Saturday
Journalists covering the Black Saturday bushfires lacked ethical guidelines, and were left to find their own way through the dilemmas and traumas of reporting Australia’s worst peace-time disaster, according to a new study.
Mike Kaiser sails away with $450k as Bligh’s office implodes
Anna Bligh remains keen to recruit an outsider to replace Mike Kaiser as her chief-of-staff, in an effort to halt the destabilisation campaign that has seen nearly every member of her inner circle linked to a mutiny attempt.
