Rich home free, ASIC in the dockOne.Tel executives Jodee Rich and Mark Silbermann may have escaped their legal battle with ASIC intact, but One.Tel was still a colossal failure, says Stephen Bartholomeusz.
November, 2009
Small wind could become a big deal
GE has just pumped millions into a small company in Arizona that has created backyard wind turbines which allow households to generate their own clean, cheap energy. Could the future of energy be DIY?
Move over, Apple: get ready for the Google Phone
It’s only been a rumour until now, but TechCrunch says it can now confirm: Google is making its own mobile phone, and it should be out early next year. Time for Steve Jobs to start sweating?
Goldman starts grovelling
Goldman Sachs is attempting to make-over its greedy image by apologising for that little Global Financial Crisis incident and spending $500 million to help small businesses recover from the recession.
The world’s most corrupt governments
Watchdog Transparency International has released its annual list ranking the world’s most — and least — corrupt countries. Heading the list is Somalia, while Australia is the eighth least corrupt.
Apocalypse fatigue: is the public tired of climate change?
Recent polls have found both Americans and Australians are growing less concerned about the threat of global warming. Are people losing faith, or just interest? Is the relentless press coverage of climate change actually damaging the movement?
Australia’s Olympic scam
Australia spends an outrageous amount of money on the Olympics, purely to assuage our international inferiority complex, says Derek Barry. Crawford is correct: the dollars can be better spent.
Rumors of Copenhagen’s death have been greatly exaggerated
The Copenhagen climate summit hasn’t even started, yet the mainstream media are already writing its obituary. But the pundits are wrong, says David Turnbull: a climate treaty can still be reached at the conference.
The Velvet Revolution: 20 years on
On the 20th anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s “Velvet Revolution”, Timothy Garton Ash looks at the other nonviolent uprisings it helped inspire over the proceeding two decades.
How the Nazis stole Christmas
A new exhibition of Nazi paraphernalia in Cologne shows how the Nazi Party tried to take Christ out of Christmas with swastika cookies and hand grenade tree decorations. Many of their “paganised” Christmas carols are still unwittingly sung today.
The next meltdown is coming in 2012
It may not be the global Apocalypse predicted by certain Hollywood action films, but there will be an epic disaster in 2012, says Paul Farrell: the next big Wall St crash.
The case for a nuclear Iran
Gasp! Iran could be building “The Bomb”. Yep: just like Pakistan has bombs, Israel has bombs and North Korea has bombs. Does another one really matter? asks Aetius Romulous
The Crawford Report: a dull dud spiced by a big no to John Coates
The Crawford Report is page after page of banalities and findings of the ‘no shit sherlock’ varieties, with all the tough issues ducked, says Trevor Cook. It’s really just a way to help the hapless Kate Ellis reject the insistent John Coates.
Crikey Says: Minchin destroys the Liberal Party to save it
Nick Minchin’s appearance onn Four Corners last week was a calculated performance by one of the country’s shrewdest political tacticians who knew precisely how the media and his colleagues would react.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Defending some “fancy pants arguments”
Crikey readers on climate change, sex in prisons, the Melbourne Model, boat people and more.
Morning Market Report: No inflation in the US means no need to raise interest rates
No inflation in the US means no need to raise interest rates — a boon for the Aussie dollar and the market, which is up 46 today.
Public sector keeps wages growing faster than they should be
Wages growth in Australia continues to ease, as the Reserve Bank says it has, but that’s not to say the public sector hasn’t done its best to keep wages growing faster than they should be.
US public debt ticks over to $12 trillion
While America was having last weekend off, the country’s public debt ticked over the impossible to comprehend figure of $US12 trillion — over 80% of the country’s annual GDP.
Media briefs: Whoops wrong Kroeger … Go, just go!/$8 million to leave
The Liberal Party’s Michael Kroger is now apparently fronting Nickelback, headline gold from (where else?) the NT News, the ABC unleash a new op-ed site, and more news from the mediasphere.
Goldman Sachs outsources lending to charity
You can’t but help be very very cynical about the news that Goldman Sachs and Warren Buffett are going to rustle up half a billion bucks and lend it to small businesses.
Beenie man is a product of entrenched homophobia in Jamaica
Beenie, the Jamaican DJ just dropped from the Big Day Out, may be a phenomenal talent. But he has, at various times, been openly, flagrantly — almost murderously — homophobic.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Penny Wong’s back!
The global socialist conspiracy formerly known as climate change has yet again struggled to prominence now that 78 folk have shuffled off a boat in Sumatra, with a tiny amount of debate over the ETS still drowned out by bluster on both sides.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Cadbury shrink staff as well as chocolate
Despite booming sales, Cadbury is laying off over 100 people, the Libs preference the Christian Democrats, Julian Morrow’s new quiz show, and why is Myer always on sale?
