The major issue affecting our hospitals isn’t lack of funding, it’s dealing with the insane and complicated bureaucracy that entangles multiple hospitals together. Time for communities to take back ownership of their local hospital, writes Miranda Devine.
January, 2010
Talking ’bout a failed international revolution
Julia Gillard wants to bring in leagues tables for Australian schools, just like in the US and England. Too bad the US and English evidence based educated systems have been a disaster, writes Kevin Donnelly.
Rudd Live!
The newest faces on Aussie TV in 2010 will be some fairly old and ugly ones: Kevin Rudd is set to revive his regular appearances on Seven’s Sunrise, while Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard are teaming up for a weekly segment on Nine’s Today. Oy.
NY Times reveals its paywall plans
The New York Times unveils its plans for the future of NYTimes.com: readers will get a flat number of free articles per month before having to pay.
The Democrats’ loss: what it means
Everyone has their own interpretation of why the Republicans won and the Democrats lost in Massachusetts yesterday, but the truth is: no one really knows. Some excellent post-election analysis from Christopher Beam.
Labor is losing the ground war on global warming opinion
Possum Comitatus digs deeper into a recent poll on Australians’ attitudes to CPRS and global warming, and finds that the ALP’s failure to strongly combat climate change scepticism is klling its CPRS hopes.
Why I did a nude shoot (and no, it wasn’t to ‘empower’ myself)
Getting naked in a magazine doesn’t need to have some bull ‘feminine strength’ message, says 44 year old mum Mary Beth Williams, as she explains her own nudie shoot for the New York Time Out.
Want to help Haiti? Ban foreign aid
Haiti needs immediate humanitarian relief. Any other long term foreign aid simply breeds a culture of corruption, increases poverty and only helps the already well connected, says Bret Stephen.
Language of losers at Japan Airlines
The analysis and commentary that preceded the Japan Airlines bankruptcy filing yesterday was conducted almost entirely in the words and terminology of failed airline business models, writes Ben Sandilands.
Why we’re not tying the knot
Young people aren’t getting married because they are too angsty, scared of divorce, immature and have good birth control. Instead, a new relationship trend has emerged between ‘dating’ and ”til death do us part’, writes Hannah Seligson.
Help Haiti help itself
The US have taken control of the Haitian earthquake disaster relief, at the expense of paying attention to local customs and leaders, says Haitian expat blogger Wadner Pierre.
Our action on climate change saves money, why is everyone else complaining?
As our Federal pollies prepare to once again get bogged down in a mire of name calling and mud-slinging over action on climate change, local government is getting on with the job, writes Mayor of the City of Stonnington, Tim Smith.
Vodka and hacksaws: DIY surgery in Haiti
MD Mark Hyman is currently working as a doctor in Haiti, where “the sickly, sweet stench of death and rotting flesh fills the air” and life-saving amputations must be performed with little more than vodka and a rusty hacksaw.
Fairfax pushes a familiar screed
There are any number of subjects that newspaper editors know will stir up plenty of righteous indignation amongst their readers, and Fairfax’s National Times seems to have picked a winner with the topic of bossy mums with huge prams, says Dave Gaukroger.
Story of the Day: Cheesed off at the NT News
The NT News has once again combined its crack team of investigative reporters with biting subeditorial wit to bring readers a tasty morsel of journalistic gold.
Daily Proposition: Get some festival action under the small top
I was wondering how the Sydney Festival (now in full swing) was going to fill the shoes of La Clique. Smoke & Mirrors is the answer, writes arts insider Emma Hawkshaw.
How the Murdoch press got it wrong on the Himalayan big melt
We should not let a debate about timing undermine our acceptance of the fundamental threat of the loss of the Asian glaciers, write Damien Lawson and David Spratt.
Afghanistan: at least the Taliban don’t try to fleece you
Corruption is so costly and endemic in Afghanistan that the country’s poor are even turning to the Taliban as an alternative government that will not fleece them of their meagre incomes.
The copyright outrage the geeks forgot to mention
The tech community hasn’t done much of a job of persuading mainstream Australia that proposed internet censorship laws are a bad idea, despite their potentially crippling effect on freedom of speech, writes Angus Kidman.
Ask the economists: Rudd’s productivity push
Following Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s call to increase productivity to two per cent by 2050, Crikey surveyed three economists to get their views. Here’s what they had to say, writes Crikey intern Flint Duxfield.
Video of the Day: The hip-hop and happening Prince and PM
Cringe alert. Kevin Rudd and our Will, the Prince of Hearts, saw a hip hop crew performance at a homeless shelter in Sydney and could not have looked more awkward. Have the homeless not suffered enough?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: God save the Queen
Professor David Flint and his colleagues at Australians for Constitutional Monarchy are always ready to discuss the niceties of any proposed reform of the Australian crown.
Morning Market Report: Wall St, Aussie market up
The US ended its 3 three day weekend by making up some of Fridays losses, with Wall Street up 115.
US banking basket case: not much left in the Citi kitty
Lumbering banking giant Citibank lost $US1.6 billion last year — peanuts really compared to the still-shocking $US27.7 billion lost in 2008.
