Which is morally worse: Holocaust denial or climate change scepticism? It sounds like a no-brainer, but the real-life consequences of climate sceptics succeeding may far outweigh those of Holocaust denialists.
November, 2009
Life as a soldier in Afghanistan
A remarkable photo essay by AP photojournalist David Guttenfelder on the lives of American troops in Afghanistan gives a small insight into the fear and horror of the work, says W H Chong.
Bernie Madoff sells off his fat gold watch collection
Bernie Madoff was mad for watches, and 46 of them were sold at yesterday’s fire sale of his possessions. Check out all of them here — including his suite of Rolexes, a favourite brand — plus their estimated price and what they actually fetched.
Hampered: Why Chrisco won’t be celebrating this Christmas
Richard Bradely has built his Chrisco Christmas hamper company into a multi-million-dollar business, but is facing an assault from consumers and rivals, who accuse him of profiteering and taking advantage of low-income customers.
Wall St conspiracy theories: a field guide
Is Goldman Sachs really a Giant Vampire Squid? Did naked short-selling kill Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros? The Big Money ranks some of the paranoid theorising going on atop the financial world’s grassy knoll.
Video of the Day: A photographer faces off with a deadly predator
An incredible story and images from National Geographic shutterbug Paul Nicklen about a photographic expedition to shoot deadly leopard seals that took an unexpected turn.
Clennell: Rees cuts out the cancer of the NSW ALP
Nathan Rees made a risky but necessary incision into the NSW ALP caucus yesterday, says Andrew Clennell, removing powerbrokers Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi. Whether the party’s factional fractures can really be cured is another question, though.
Mexico’s media bloodbath
Mexico is now the most dangerous country for journalists in the Western Hemisphere, with 12 reporters, photographers, editors and radio hosts murdered in 2009 alone, many for covering the country’s brutal and bloody drug wars.
The biggest websites you’ve never heard of
Forget Facebook: Megavideo.com, Megaupload.com and Megarotic.com are the real heavyweights of the online world, proving piracy and porn are still the hottest commodities on the internet.
Film review: 2012 — die-hard disaster porn
The plot may be clunky and the science very sketchy, but in strictly visual terms, 2012 is simply the most spectacular disaster picture ever made, says Luke Buckmaster. Full-blown cinematic sadism.
Greens get the climate poll they paid for
The Greens recently commissioned a Galaxy poll on public opinion to the Government’s ETS and, surprise surprise says Andrew Norton: it found Australians want a more ambitious emissions target.
Can Salon.com be saved?
Despite its iconic status, seminal news and opinion website Salon.com lost $4.6m last year and recently laid of 20% of its staff. PBS asks new CEO Richard Gingras whether the site can really be saved.
Meet the man who beat Glenn Beck
Fox News commentator Glenn Beck recently tried to sue Isaac Eiland-Hall, a 34-year-old IT student and the owner of a website called GlennBeckRapedAndMurdered AYoungGirlIn1990.com. He lost.
Grattan: Rudd still has a deal to make at home
The world’s leaders may have given up on a climate change treaty at Copenhagen, but brokering a climate deal at home will still give Kevin Rudd considerable clout at the conference, says Michelle Grattan
A Forgotten Australian tells of a childhood without love
An extract of a submission by Caroline Carroll, chairwoman of Forgotten Australians, to the Senate inquiry into the treatment of wards of the state.
A decade of Rove
Rove McManus shocked the nation (OK, a handful of viewers) last night by announcing his TV show would be coming to an abrupt end that night. TV Tonight looks back at 10 years of Rove’s hits and misses on commercial TV.
AUDIO SLIDESHOW: Forgotten Australians share their stories
Members of the Forgotten Generation tell their stories of abuse and mistreatment while orphans and wards of the state.
An apology is just the first step
Today’s apology to the Forgotten Generation is meaningless if it is not a sincere plea from the government for forgiveness, says Hugh Mackay.
The Forgotten Generation: Australia says “sorry”
The Federal Government will finally issue an apology today to the “Forgotten Generation” — the 500,000 child migrants who suffered abuse in Australian institutions between the 1920s and 1960s.
Why is America funding Pakistan’s spies?
The CIA is pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into Pakistan’s intelligence service, according to former officials, even though it’s widely suspected the agency is helping Taliban extremists.
No time left for negotiating 
World leaders give up on Copenhagen
The Copenhagen climate conference doesn’t start for another 22 days, but world leaders at the APEC summit have already agreed that reaching a legally binding deal on climate change at the conference will be impossible.
ALP takes another hit in the polls — sort of
Maybe That Newspoll wasn’t an outlier after all: the latest Morgan poll has shown a 5-point drop to the ALP. But it was a small sample size. And a new Newspoll of QLD marginals shows a strong swing to the party. What does it all mean? Our heads hurt.
What next for Sarah Palin?
She’s about to launch a guaranteed best-seller and, despite not actually being a politician any more, continues to get more attention than almost any other political figure in the US. But is Sarah Palin the next Obama or the next Oprah?
How Murdoch can really hurt Google
Rupert Murdoch’s recent rejection of Google may be less about news content and more about the search engine wars, suggests Michael Arrington: by de-indexing from Google, other search engines could pay him for the rights to index News Corp content.
