So with a great (self-trumpeted) fanfare, the Greens have returned to the climate change debate — and about bloody time.
January, 2010
Mungo MacCallum: Greens and climate change … welcome back to the real world
Political snippets: Don’t mention the unemployed
Crunching the unemployment and interest rate figures, the Crikey Oscars Indicator is off and running and the quote of the day from Ronald Brownstein.
E-books: publishers need to get with the program
Book publishers been twiddling their thumbs on e-books for years, but the success of Amazon’s Kindle and the looming Apple Tablet is about to force their hands, writes Mark Davis.
Daily Proposition: Oh, The Horror!
Give Primary Colours by The Horrors a chance to soundtrack your night tonight. And you don’t have to be a skinny, pale, big haired indie kid to enjoy (though it helps).
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: The funny side of oligarchic duopolies
Why aren’t Wooworths being open about the fact that the locally owned Thomas Dux ‘corner stores’ are actually a Woolies company? Plus, it is a civil liberty to fly around the country anonymously?
Crikey Says: Paying lip service to internet freedom
A recent editorial from China’s People’s Daily took umbrage at Hillary Clinton’s comments on “internet freedom. Finally the Chinese government manage to land a punch on the US.
Does Australia need its own Iraq War inquiry?
The Chilcot inquiry into the UK’s role in the Iraq War is heating up in Britain, with Blair and co coming under heavy scrutiny. Should the Howard government face the same treatment?
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30 years of elections in 5 charts
The primary vote of both the Labor Party and the Coalition have been, on average, declining since 1977… but that’s only part of the story, reports Possum Comitatus.
Australia’s 3D film debut set to be a real toad
In the wake of Avatar’s monolithic success, Australian film makers are keen to get a slice of the three-dimensional pie. Our first 3D flick? A nature doco about cane toads.
Marieke Hardy: Giving patriotism a bad name and an unfunny slogan
When did the official costume of Australia Day become an Australia flag cape and a “We grew here, you flew here” singlet? asks Marieke Hardy.
In search of Australia’s great national dish
Ahead of Australia Day, the Daily Tele is searching for Australia’s favourite national dish. Most of their experts agree on some variation of “shrimp on the barbie”, while Wayne Swan reveals his inner bogan, suggesting XXXX beer.
Happy National Sickie Day!
Tomorrow might be the official public holiday, but on 25 January, hundreds of thousands of Australians practise the sacred ancient tradition known as “chucking a sickie”. Why not make it a weekly event? suggest Paul Colgan.
Inside China’s baby trade
Chinese orphanages are paying poor farmers hundreds of dollars for their newborns to feed the lucrative Western adoption market.
How to write a best-seller: give it away free
The best-selling e-Books aren’t necessarily the ones penned by big-name authors or showered in awards: they’re the ones that don’t cost anything. Heaving bosoms and lusty vampires don’t hurt “sales”, either.
Does Australia need pay-per-use airport lounges?
Jetstar announced a new pay-per-use lounge at Auckland Airport last week, and the concept is already very popular overseas. So why aren’t there more of them in this country? asks Ben Sandilands.
Welcome to the age of the killer robot
It sounds like a sci-fi film, but it’s the reality of war in the 21st century: the West is now fighting its wars with a rapidly expanding army of killer robots. Is this really the future we want to engineer for our world?
Sheehan: The real reason Auntie courted Annabel
Paul Sheehan claims the reason the ABC was willing to shell out $250k a year to nab high-profile political commentator Annabel Crabb was to secure her as the cheerleader for its new 24-hour news channel.
Why is Kevin Rudd the Australian of the Year?
Put on your tin foil hats and head for the grassy knoll: The Australian has named Kevin Rudd as its Australian of the Year, and Bernard Keane has a few conspiracy theories about why.
Did the IPCC cash-in on melting glaciers?
“Glaciergate” continues: The UK Times is accusing the IPCC and its chairperson, Rajendra Pachaur, of using its now refuted claim that the Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035 “to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds”.
Online poker: where everyone’s a loser
A study of online poker games has found that the more hands a player wins, the less money they’re likely to take home. Sociologists explain why.
The internet in ’09: the stats
Fascinating figures from the information superhighway last year: 90 trillion email (81% of which were spam), 126 million blogs, and 4.25 million people following Ashton Kutcher on Twitter.
The 3 privacy setting every Facebook user should change
Don’t let your boss, kids or Google-stalking former classmates see your drunken photos and Robert Patterson fan-page on Facebook. Follow this five-minute guide to keeping your private details just that.
Mark Scott: In defence of 24-hour news
ABC chief Mark Scott hits back against critics who say the braodcaster’s recently announced 24-hour news channel violates the ABC charter: read the damn thing.
