Victorian Division Liberal Party power-brokers Michael Kroger and Peter Costello were seen yesterday (Monday) chatting away at the Tower of Power, 101 Collins Street, where Kroges holds court at JT Campbell and Co, the investment bank of which he is the Chairman. Kroges and Cossie had a huge falling out in the aftermath of the […]
December, 2009
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Kroges and Cossie at the Tower of Power
Video of the Day: The God of Tetris
Ever wondered what higher power decided which Tetris piece would fall to you next? You wait and wait for a line piece to come, but then… another block. Is there no God?
Fed to be audited as super-nova bubble starts to blow
The US Federal Reserve is an even more mysterious a monster than old Russia, writes Planet Wall Street’s David Hirst, with secret bailouts in the billions of dollars.
Financial crunch: the new lame ducks are queuing up
The crunch may be over in the minds of bonus-focused bankers, but the horrible reality is that it’s still alive and merely resting. The Dubai bailout by Abu Dhabi simply highlights the risk.
Housing prices: the bubble just gets bigger
The housing bubble continues to inflate in earnest, as the last major weekend of the auction season delivered a spate of booming prices. Can it continue?
Morning Market Report: Oil continues its slide
The market and Wall St are up, with the market bouncing yesterday on the news that Dubai had received $10 billion in financing from their neighbour Abu Dhabi.
Export earnings on the up despite dollar, drought and lower farm export prices
Australia’s export slump could be turning up, following the release of the latest look at commodity export income from ABARE.
Media briefs: Saddam and Whitney make a comeback… WSJ and NYT feud… Facebook more popular than email
The Today show makes that all-too-common mistake of confusing Whitney Housten with Saddam Hussein, the gloves are off between the Journal and the Times, and Facebook is now more popular than email.
Buoyant housing sector further vindicates the Reserve Bank
Today’s housing data confirms the RBA got its interest rate timing right. But the trick will be sustaining the surge in housing construction.
Copenhagen: interview with the thinking man’s sceptic Bjorn Lomborg
In this interview with Crikey, Bjorn Lomborg weighs into the debate Australia never had: whether an emissions trading scheme or carbon tax is the best way to bring down emissions, writes Matthew Knott in Copenhagen.
Datapig: Is it really getting hotter down here?
Last week the World Meteorological Organisation announced that 2009 is shaping up to be Australia’s third hottest year on record (since 1910), writes Datapig David Gillespie.
Political snippets: Bad Newspoll bears bad news for NSW Libs
We have to go back more than 100 years to find the last time that the Labor Party in New South Wales polled less than 30% of the primary vote, right back when the part was in its infancy.
Tony — you ain’t gonna win talking to Alan Jones
Tony Abbott’s initial media strategy has been confined to AM radio and the ABC’s current affairs shows. He needs to take a leaf from Kevin Rudd’s book and go mainstream.
Milne: It all boils down to this: Kyoto v non Kyoto
Although inching progress is being made, the UN and world leaders will have trouble selling a political outcome that declares some kind of success, writes Greens Senator Christine Milne.
Crikey Says: Conroy’s cyber-safety conundrum
Today, Stephen Conroy will finally announce the outcome of the Government’s prolonged deliberations over how to resolve its self-created dilemma over cyber-safety.
PHOTO GALLERY: 2009 in pictures. Really, really big pictures.
In the first of a three-part series, The Boston Globe’s Big Picture looks back at some of the most beautiful, shocking, inspiring and iconic images of 2009.
The worst people of the decade
From Dan Brown to Harry Potter to Kanye West, the Guardian names and shames the people who ruined the noughties for everyone. Harsh, but fair.
Lighten up, climate doomsayers
Constantly proclaiming “We’re all doomed!” isn’t doing the planet any favours, says Anne Applebaum. Global warming is an important issue, but mopey nihilism will get the climate movement nowhere.
Knight Abu Dhabi saves damsel in distress Dubai
UAE neighbour Abu Dhabi has come to Dubai’s debt stricken rescue, giving US$10 billion to the Dubai government. While its creditors will be repaid, Dubai’s economic credibility cannot be repaired as easily.
Millions of missing Bush emails uncovered
Twenty-two million emails from the Bush White House have been found and restored, despite the administration’s claims none were missing from the archives. It raises the question: what else has fallen through the cracks?
