Some gravely serious allegations about the conduct of Air France flight AF447, which crashed in the middle of the Atlantic killing all 228 people on board last June, have been published. Ben Sandilands examines the damning report.
February, 2010
Barnaby Joyce: How Labor threw all our money away
Rudd’s economic stimulus package brought us no major infrastructure projects, economic blow outs and failed schemes. Labor partied hard and now we’re stuck suffering the debt hangover, says Barnaby Joyce.
Miranda Devine: My love for Julia and Tony
The star-crossed lovers of the Aussie political fairytale are Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott. The witty deputy PM and the flirtatious Opposition leader are a perfect political love match, writes Miranda Devine.
Sarah Hanson-Young: When will Kev and Tony end this human rights violation?
Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott needs to stop reigning in their parties so tightly and let individual pollies stand up make a conscience vote on gay marriage, writes Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young.
The Ampilatwatja walk-off: why the Intervention doesn’t work
Bob Gosford sits down under a shady tree to discuss the NT intervention and income management with Richard Downs of the Alyawarr people, who walked away from the nearby township of Ampilatwatja to camp on Aboriginal freehold land.
Garrett’s a nice guy, but that doesn’t make him innocent
Yes, it is fiction that ministers can know every little detail about their department, but if Peter Garrett can’t declare that they did everything possible to limit risks then he should resign, writes Simon Longstaff.
Guy Rundle: An anarchist protest like O Week with tear gas
Guy Rundle attends an anarchist protest in Athens where his “Melbourne-80s-now-fat” outfit, i.e. black from head to foot, almost got him caught by police in the roundup.
Journalists more incompetent than Garrett
The insulation scheme was shut down not because of Peter Garrett’s ministerial stuff-ups, but because of lazy journalists who twisted the truth. If the Minter Ellison document was reported accurately, the program would still be operational, writes Possum Comtitatus.
Did the insulation program actually reduce fire risk?
Garrett’s insulation program dramatically increased standards in an industry where there were previously very few, with less house fires due to installation than before. Possum crunches the numbers.
Did Australia actually save East Timor?
Australia loves to cling to a belief that we ‘saved’ East Timor twice in the 20th century. But it’s a myth of Australian history, constantly perpetuated by our governments, writes Clinton Fernandes.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Garrettgate not proof that the market is better
Crikey readers weigh on Garrett’s roofing insulation scheme, the possibility of double dissolution election and the recent sainthood of Mary MacKillop.
Jobs and debt for everybody!
The dramatic fall in Australian productivity is the dark side of the strength of our labour market. It’s also the mirror image of what’s going on in the United States.
Business As Usual: US consumer confidence takes a dip … News moves into Middle East
US consumer confidence takes a fall as do US house prices, too. But Wall Street cash is still good even though the banks are still struggling and other business snippets of the day.
Morning Market Report: Market, Wall St down
Wall Street fell 100 overnight. Dow up 28 at best and down 101 at worst. Weaker than expected consumer confidence numbers did most of the damage.
Race Mathews slams Melbourne Uni over VCA “rent”
A war of words has erupted over the Victorian College of the Arts’ financial ties to the University of Melbourne, with a former state arts minister Race Mathews branding rent payments to the university as “morally unconscionable”.
Cast your vote in Crikey’s film awards: The Golden Choc-Tops!
Next week, Crikey’s film body — the Film Admiring Residents of Crikey (FARC) — will reveal the winners of its coveted awards, The Golden Choc-Tops. But before that, we need your help!
Media briefs: Cate’s theatrical rant, terrorism in roofs, Overington on #QT, Mick and his lover
Cate Blanchett’s Fairfax op-ed heads today’s media briefs, including a terrorism warning from the Kybram Free Press, Caroline Overington’s comic stylings, a provocative anti-smoking campaign and Mick Molloy — and his gay lover.
Back to the future with Ferguson’s nuclear waste legislation
Martin Ferguson says he will repeal the Howard Government’s legislation for a nuclear waste dump. Only problem is, his replacement legislation is exactly the same in critical areas.
Garrett’s real bat problem: flying foxes set to extend the headache
Pink batts aren’t the only bats that will be preying on environment minister Peter Garrett’s mind at the moment. A problem looms for the embattled minister in the form of flying foxes, writes Nick Edards.
Rock rally strikes a chord with the Victorian Liberals
Many MPs are steeped in Melbourne’s music culture, but others instead listen to the bureaucrats who hate its disorderliness, to branch members from the pre-rock era, or to foreign ideologies that see rock as the voice of the devil.
Explaining the stacked deck that is parliamentary question time
It’s doubtful a coalition Opposition would take advice from a former Labor press secretary but if they did, they might want to just hand question time over to the press gallery, writes Network Ten press gallery producer Stephen Spencer.
Political snippets: Richard Farmer’s chunky bits
The rot has stopped. The new Premier of NSW Kristina Keneally might be a long way from steering her party to a win at the next state election but she has at least stopped the rot. The Newspoll accumulation of data from its past two months of national polls shows a modest, and probably significant, […]
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Garrett gets the coverage but he ain’t no Tiger
A large amount of prognosticating from all of the political commentators about whether Peter Garrett should go, whether he would go and ultimately whose responsibility it is.
Tasmania just became one of the most political places on the planet
On March 20 Tasmanian voters can change the government by voting Labor. That’s right. That wasn’t a typo. Brian Mitchell explains how.
