It’s all down, down, down news today with the market is down 55 today, SFE Futures down 54 this morning and Wall St. down 104 overnight.
December, 2009
Morning Market Report: Market, Wall St, Aussie dollar all down
Westpac’s banana republic fails to bear fruit
Westpac’s attempt to quell customer concern over last week’s double rate rise have failed to bear fruit with a bitter online backlash greeting the release of a video likening home loans to banana smoothies.
Cycling Australia juggles political football
Cycling Australia is being asked to sanction moving Australia’s second biggest bike race, Victoria’s Jayco Herald Sun Tour from its October slot to either early or late February from 2011.
Media briefs: New Idea versus the Hewitts … Blogging bureaucracy … CNN goes local …
New Idea’s publisher has been ordered by a judge to give up its sources for an article that falsely claimed former soapie starlet Bec Hewitt had another man in her life.
Tiger birdies: he’s just a victim of the times
Tiger Woods’ trysts reveal nothing more than the nature of today’s young male when he finds a willing lover. This is what we happen when we strip marriage of all form of commitment, writes Keysar Trad.
Why I resigned from Melbourne Uni Council
Tammi Jonas explains why she resigned from the University of Melbourne Council, after she was asked to teach a seminar for free despite having been paid in the past.
What price ASIO’s history? About $1.8 million apparently
ASIO is giving a defence academic, ANU Professor David Horner, a former soldier and high-profile military historian, nearly $1.8 million to write its history.
Fright in wake: Airbus in scare with turbo-prop at Sydney
It was a scary case of big meets little at Sydney Airport on November 8 last year, when the wake turbulence from a giant Airbus A380 upset a tiny SAAB 340 turbo-prop as both were landing.
Biggest problem facing Scullion as shadow indigenous affairs? His boss
New shadow Indigenous Affairs minister Nigel Scullion has a genuine opportunity to make meaningful progress for the nation’s most disadvantaged citizens. Let’s hope he doesn’t succumb to his poll dancing past.
Hamilton at Copenhagen: Climate change science? Just google it.
While they pride themselves on their superior rational capacity, in truth the climate deniers are the least wise of the homo sapiens who’ve gathered in Copenhagen.
Mayne: How I was denied the Manningham mayoral robes
Another day, another contested election defeat! That’s 42 and counting. However, as The Age reported this morning, the ballot to see who would be full-time major of Manningham City Council in 2010 came down to a knife-edge 5-4 vote. You would think that Kevin Andrews’ safe federal seat of Menzies in Melbourne’s leafy eastern suburbs […]
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Rudd second in press coverage, second week in a row
Kevin Rudd still second fiddle in volume terms to the Opposition Leader, albeit a different one. Turns out a leadership spill makes you pretty popular in the media.
Political snippets: Abbott’s Munich agreement
More glib remarks from the new Opposition leader who is prone to talk first and think afterwards. So finding a resolution to climate change is as likely as world peace huh?
Bunkering down at Copenhagen as the bombshells rain down
Day two of the Copenhagen Climate Summit has been rocked by the leaking of a secret draft of the Copenhagen Agreement. Matthew Knott gives all the insider dirt from Copenhagen.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: on Minchin, the green movement and Marxism
Understand this clearly – more people now believe the Red-Green hypothesis, that capitalism is a system testing us to destruction in its current form, than go with the idea that it is some empty charade of communism by other means.
Treasury busts some stimulus myths
The GFC might have been an unusual crisis compared to previous recessions, but fiscal stimulus is not as poor an option for such crises as we’ve been led to think. Even the Treasury agrees the government didn’t spend too much.
Some billion dollar questions about Tamiflu, influenza policy, drug regulation
The stockpiling and widespread use of antiviral drugs such as Tamiflu has been called into question by an important new review, writes Melissa Sweet.
Crikey Clarifier: The difference between home loans and banana smoothies
So according to Westpac, mortgages and banana smoothies are very similar. But the money that banks needed to buy started to cost them a lot more, just like bananas for smoothies. You still following?
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Gail Kelly doesn’t like women in the exec ranks?
Is Gail Kelly actually not a fan of promoting women in the exec ranks at Westpac? Is it a repeat of her time at St George? Plus, they are a cruel bunch down at the WA Libs.
Crikey Says: A day in the life of climate change
A lot happens in climate change science is the space of just one day.
Copenhagen leaks rock summit, Tamiflu controversy, Westpac’s banana republic, Treasury on stimulus 
The most overexposed celebs of 2009
Sometimes the key to making people love you is giving them something to miss. It’s a rule that those on The Roots list of ‘people they are hoping will disappear in 2010’ haven’t learnt yet. Goodbye Kanye, the Jacksons and Sarah Palin.
