The Australian should do itself a favour and let reality intrude occasionally on the constant flow of its commentary.
November, 2009
Crikey Says: The Oz: too smart for its own good
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The “immigration debate” debate continues
Crikey readers continue to weigh-in on whether the immigration debate should be played out in public, plus the CPRS, climate sceptics, compulsory voting, and more.
Morning Market Report: An impressive session for Metals
Metals had an impressive session overnight, with Copper, Nickel and Zinc finishing around 5% higher. Wall St closed up 137, and today’s market is up 13.
US finance sector’s sick reality
In the past month, 24 US banks have failed, two big finance companies have gone into bankruptcy, followed by a small credit card provider. But American investors don’t care; they know if the banks are small enough, the regulators will clean up.
ATO-TPG fight may force legislators to act curb tax favours
The emerging stoush between the Australian Tax Office and the former private equity owners of Myer should warm the cockles of the hearts of every long-suffering Australian taxpayer.
Media briefs: Kevin Rudd, Al Jazeera wants you … China censors Obama
Kevin Rudd snubs Al Jazeera, China censors Obama, Detroit launches its third daily newspaper, The Beeb gets its first Social Media Editor, Twitter scraps its ‘Suggested Users’ list, and more media news.
Get ready for an RBA rates ramp up
The Reserve Bank will continue to lift its key cash rate as long as “economic conditions evolved as expected”, the minutes for the last board meeting reveal.
Fruit juice: a nutritious way to get extremely fat
A glass of apple juice is no better for you than a glass of Coke — the average soft drink is 10% sugar and so is the average juice. Drinking fruit juice is just a nutritious way to get extremely fat.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Tabcorp’s miserly meat raffle
Tabcorp looks like a silly sausage after its new spin on the old meat raffle, has The Australian abolishes the paper’s Climate section, deep pathos at NIDA and more tips from our readers.
Rudd is drowning on boat people
He may have got a bounce in the polls today, but the Prime Minister’s handling of the Oceanic Viking issue has been singularly inept.
The NSW Left’s big weekend
Few party officials effortlessly wield as much power as seen at last weekend’s NSW ALP conference. It was Luke Foley’s conference, writes Joe Sammaras.
Forty-nine million Americans go hungry
For all the talk of a recovery in the US economy, a grim reality has been outlined in Washington for all the world to see: America can’t feed all its 303 million people, with one in seven going short at some stage in a week.
A radioactive issue for the Coalition?
Why has Ian Macfarlane completely reversed his opinion on Carbon Capture and Storage — from such a strong advocate of the when in government to his recent denunciation on Four Corners? asks Michael James.
Work hard for permanent residency? Why bother?
An anonymous reader lets exposes the second-rate hospitality training given to international students hoping to gain permanent residency in Australia.
Looming GE-Comcast deal may out-flank Murdoch
While he has been obsessing about the internet and free content, Rupert Murdoch may be about to be out-flanked by the looming deal between General Electric and Comcast over NBC.
The science of climate change is only a small part of the discussion
Equating climate change doubters and dissenters with mass-murdering war criminals is the mark of a moral dwarf, writes Sinclair Davidson.
Schools left off bushfire Code Red register
Victorian schools in the potential path of a new wave of bushfires have been left off an emergency register designed to shut them down in the event of another Black Saturday.
Sport funding torn between going for gold and going for guts
The long-awaited Crawford Review of Australian sport has called the bluff of successive Australian governments and proposed a re-weighting of sports funding away from elite Olympic sports toward grassroots participation.
Qld Hansard a closed book to OpenAustralia
Why won’t the Queensland Parliament allow OpenAustralia to publish the Queensland State Parliamentary Hansards? Crikey intern Michelle Loh investigates.
Political snippets: Who needs Newspoll?
Who needs Newspoll when Crikey readers can predict the poll’s results? ABC Online readers’ lightweight tastes, and a judge rules that Scrabbl is a “game” — not a toy or a puzzle.
Honduras — sleight-of-hand, smoke and mirrors
The US State Department’s statement last weekend that the Honduran elections would be recognised whether or not President Manuel Zelaya was reinstated is a gross betrayal of the aspirations of many honest people, writes Warwick Fry.
