In an age where every hot start-up seems to have been launched by a teenager in his parents’ garage on the smell of an oily rag, has the old fashioned business plan become an anachronism? After all: Twitter still doesn’t have one.
March, 2010
Labor is Greens with envy
Lindsay Tanner’s op-ed in the SMH today damning The Greens for wasting the progressive vote shows Tanner pushing a “A vote for the Greens, is a vote for the Liberals” line. Wow, Labor is worried.
Sinodinos: Abbott’s plan of attack
Kevin07 is back and Tony Abbott should be worried. If Abbott is to rule, he shouldn’t waste time with a new political manifesto, but just push classic Liberal strengths: security, the economy and individual choice, says Arthur Sinodinos.
Devine: The worm is a moron
All the “wormologists” in the health debate are snivelling idiots with low IQs, says Miranda Devine. Why? Because they loved Kevin Rudd. Even though his hospital system didn’t operate on Miranda’s sliced thumb.
Google founder talks China
Google co-founder Sergey Brin explains why the company finally decided to stop playing ball with the Chinese government’s internet censorship, and says doing business with them reminded him of his childhood in the Soviet Union.
Minchin departs: mission (mostly) accomplished
It’s official, Nick Minchin will be retiring at the next election. Bernard Keane reflects on the senator whose greatest coup was wrangling the leadership for Tony Abbott.
The saucy scandals staining the tomato business
You say tomato, I say industry wrecked by scandal. Arthur Allen explores the messy world of the canning tomatoes industry, with juicy tales of bribery, corruption and a dirty competitor war.
PHOTO GALLERY: It passed! Behind the scenes of the US health care bill
Judging by this joyful photo gallery showing Jesse Jackson Jnr snapping pics of demonstrators on his mobile and Hillary Clinton giving Barack Obama a giant hug, the Democrats were pretty excited that the US health reform bill passed.
Hamish, Andy, Rove and Pete go missing on Channel 31 effort
BRW Rich-Listers Hamish & Andy have failed to come to the aid of the struggling community TV station that gave them their start, despite multimillion-dollar annual salaries and an looming breakthrough into the lucrative US television market.
Here we go again: let’s go back to basics on asylum seeker numbers
The Coalition continues to try to blame the Rudd Government for the increase in asylum seekers. The facts continue to show they’re wrong.
Morning Market Report: Another positive day for our market
We are up 33. While better than expected home sales saw Wall St closed up 102 overnight and The Dow up 106.
The questions journos forgot to ask at the National Press Club
The National Press Club failed to really grill the prime minister about his health proposals — or lack of them, writes Melissa Sweet. Here are the questions they forgot to ask.
Crikey Says: Rudd has a plan, but it’s full of holes
Kevin Rudd is a man with a plan. Tony Abbott has none. And so the worm turned, the pundits pounced, and the Great Debate was declared an emphatic KO.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The health debate
Crikey readers weigh in on yesterday’s health debate from the worm, to the graphs, to the reporting of the debate in the media and how it compared to the US health reform bill.
Business As Usual: Debt still on menu at Seven, Nine as MasterChef fires up ad revenues again…
The return of MasterChef Australia has heralded that the good times are back for the television industry, forecasters predict a sluggish recovery for the British economy, what Westpac chairman Ted Evans didn’t know in Treasury and more business briefs.
Abbott showed up for the wrong fight
Abbott the pugilist showed up to the boxing ring yesterday — only to find that his opponent was holding a love-in, talking about families and kids and late-night trips to the Emergency Department.
APRA says our Big Four banks ‘too big to fail’
Tomorrow, the Reserve Bank produces the first financial stability report for 2010 and it is expected to be solid, without anything to frighten the still-skittish horses in the financial paddocks.
Some facts — no, opinions — about the AMP
The Australian Music Prize may be considered by some to be a prestigious award, but listening to music is a supremely personal experience, one that does not translate to a consortium of 27 people, writes Everett True.
Craven on reviewing and Rundle — ‘the blustering sook’
He’s such a weird and lopsided character, Guy Rundle. It’s a mystery how this man who can be so intelligent can also carry on in such a mad dog undergraduatish way, says theatre critic Peter Craven.
Media briefs: Troubling Times in the west … the latest on Google v China
Perth’s Sunday Times has seen a staff exodus under an unpopular editor, our media insider from the West writes. Plus the latest on Google, the iPad and 3D technology in today’s media news.
Political snippets: Abbott vs. Rudd: a close bout
Kevin Rudd’s may have won the health debate, but he didn’t win over the media, what Tasmania’s politicians could learn from Canberra’s on dealing with the Greens, some dodgy documents from the Public Relations Institute of Australia and more snippets.
Why Allen & Unwin should have settled Crikey-style
The same group of barristers who once defended Crikey in a legal blitz barristers again came together in the long-running defamation action that saw barrister Dyson Hore-Lacy awarded $630,000 in damages from publisher Allen & Unwin for Phil Cleary’s book Getting Away With Murder.
Possum: the inside info on audience response and “The Worm”
You might have seen the health debate yesterday. You may have noticed, apart from how truly tragic you were for doing such a thing, was how the two tracking lines behaved very, very differently.
