Abbott vs. Latham: polling deathmatchPossum Comitatus compares polling data from the early stages of Mark Latham’s leadership with Tony Abbott’s figures, and finds Abbott is miles behind. Ouch.
February, 2010
Fairfax goes paywall. Well, kinda
Some stories on Fairfax news sites have been showing only a few paragraphs of the article before instructing readers to buy a hard copy of the paper to read the rest. Is this a paywall strategy in the making?
Business As Usual: Everyone got it wrong, the French connection
Trade figures for December confirm another bout of red ink, why every economist got the rate rise wrong, Kim Jong Il catches on to capitalism, and the France Telecom suicide scandal.
Morning Market Report: Finally, Wall Street gets some gains
Wall Street put together two consecutive sessions of gains closing 111 higher overnight. The Dow was up 129 at best and down 12 at worst.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: What’s so wrong with publicly identifying yourself?
What exactly is the problem with making bloggers and commenters in SA publicly identify themselves? asks one Crikey reader. Plus, Prince William, Fructose and angry dads.
Kohler: Abbott’s clever climate change policy
Against all expectations, Tony Abbott and Greg Hunt have actually come up with a clever climate change policy, and certainly one that will change the debate in Australia.
State governments get a handle on housing boom addiction
The adoption of commercial incentive tactics has lead to state governments in Australia becoming addicted to property taxes, collecting big on stamp duty and offering very little in return.
News results in: Team Rupe’s coffers swell
News Corp has released is second-quarter and first-half earnings report, with mixed results: cable and operating profits were up, but its digital strategy still looks a crock .
Conroy: We didn’t claim filtering was a silver-bullet solution
ISP filtering is just one component of the government’s cyber-safety policy, writes Senator Stephen Conroy.
Media briefs: The problem with peeking at dirty pics…thank god we have an heir!
Some pot calling the kettle black down at The Oz over the Packer heir affair, plus the trouble with looking at rudey pics at work: it helps if you’re not on national television at the time and other media tidbits.
SA Attorney-General says ‘break the law’
Hendrik Gout dips into the bizarre world that is South Australian politics and explains what all the fuss about Mike Atkinson is about.
Future Afghan government will include Taliban
Nine years of bloodshed and death, and billions upon billions of dollars spent on the Afghanistan occupation, we are facing negotiations on significantly worse terms than before the war began.
Political snippets: Tony Abbott’s bald spot
An embarrassing day to be an economist, Tony Abbott’s bald spot, when The Guardian turns on climate scientists you know it’s bad and other political snippets.
Abbott’s very bad day
Tony Abbott’s first Parliamentary day in the big chair was not the greatest of starts: the new leader was left standing at the Dispatch Box gasping a little like a fish out of water.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: no shit Short takes the stand, Brown deflects with voting scam
Gordon Brown’s announcement today that he would try and push through plans for a referendum on constitutional reform has been greeted with light but general derision.
FOI reform may undermine open government
Expect some drama as the Freedom of Information reform Bill is debated in federal parliament, since an amendment that would fatally undermine the move to more open government has been slipped in.
I auditioned for the Stig; all I got was ACA lies
A Current Affair’s road safety crusade could be about to enter slippery legal territory after it used recycled footage from a two-year-old Top Gear audition tape in a faked attempt to “trap” a hoon driver.
Abbott heads back to the future on climate action
Tony Abbott has never been John Howard’s heir more clearly than in his Howard-era climate action proposals. Abbott’s climate change policy is excellent. Excellent, that is, for 2000. It’s ten years too late.
Ask the economists: RBA’s surprise interest rate pause
Oops. After all the pundits promised an interest rate rise, the RBA kept rates stable. Crikey asked some of the nation’s leading economists about the RBA surprise decision yesterday.
Daily Proposition: Jump on the V/Line train today
If you catch the train to Albury, the destination is only part of the journey. Sit back in the 1970-esque brown upholstered seating, chat to grandmas and check out the Rooster Tree. It’s all part of the ride.
