Senior Liberals are very concerned about being able to retain Wentworth without Malcolm Turnbull. Bernard Keane offers his five reason why Turnbull needs to immediately reconsider his decision to retire.
April, 2010
Confessions of the tele-holics: Crikey’s TV shame
Grab a packet of M&Ms, settle back on the couch and share your embarrassing stories of TV shame with the Crikey crew.
We need to teach our teachers how to teach
The NAPLAN tests are completely unrealistic and unfair to teachers. How can teachers be expected to guide their students in literacy following the NAPLAN standards, if they themselves haven’t been taught it?
Estrogen: the debate of the raging hormones
Hormone replacement therapy was the thing to do once the hot flushes and stress menopause began, until suddenly HRT was hitting the news as a major health risk. But how bad is estrogen?
Jack Marx: It’s my body and I’ll kill it with cigarettes if I want to
Jack Marx pens an open letter to the The Heart Foundation: hands off my smokes!
Ant’s NRL analysis: Round 6
Ant Halstead gives his picks for the weekend’s NRL games, after last week’s “controversial” big game. Will the Titans win again and can the Storm get over the referee’s decision?
CJR: It’s time for the media to stop arse-kissing Apple
While news outlets are busy holding Apple and its iPad up as the saviour of news, the company is increasingly strengthening its grip over what actually gets published. We need to wrestle control back, before it’s too late, warns the CJR.
Lethal’s AFL tipping advice: Round 4
Put in your tips yets? Lethal Leigh Josey previews this weekend in AFL footy, offering up his expert picks for the Round 4 clashes. Has Fremantle’s lucky run ended? Can Richmond only fight in hotel rooms?
First Dog on the Moon’s guide to ethics
Crikey’s celebrity cartoonist First Dog on the Moon talks the ethics of political cartooning and what it’s like to make biting political satire at the expense of others. “Sometimes I enjoy being mean and I feel ashamed” he says.
LNP expels Young Lib for ‘monkey’ slur
UPDATED: Nick Sowden — the Young Liberal who embarrassed his party with a stream of racist slurs on Twitter — has been expelled from the party, Crikey has learned.
Keane: In defence, kinda sorta, of Nick Sowden
Nick Sowden has become the scapegoat of the Twitterverse after calling Barack Obama a “monkey” online yesterday — but he claims he was just “paying out the crazy Right”. Doesn’t he deserve the benefit of the doubt? asks Bernard Keane.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Crowdsourcing love advice. Oh, and the debate…
The UK leaders’ debate was three dead people swapping minor political variations on a theme: Clegg was dynamic but irrelevant, Brown sounded like a farmer with terminal cancer, and Cameron was just a joke.
Kicked out of Community Cabinet, Crikey style
Comfort women, childrens’ sun hats, the Macksville Bridge, koala colonies and television for the blind. These were the sorts of questions asked at last night’s Community Cabinet, held in the assembly hall at Sydney’s Epping Boys High School.
Wankley Awards: The twisted virus that is Dog Man
Dog-gone, the internet is a funny thing: you can be eccentric talent on Australian tabloid TV one minute, a global multi-media phenomenon the next. This week the Wankley goes to the Dog Man madness.
Game on: election speculation, anyone?
It’s back on — Canberra is talking about election timing again. Let’s work out what’s possible and what’s not.
Video of the Day: Star Wars: the fanboys cut
A teaser for the very ambitious Star Wars: Uncut project, where the original Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is recreated entirely in 15 second segments by fans.
Crikey Says: ABC should stick to what they’re good at
Late last year, the ABC’s managing director, Mark Scott, launched a campaign for the broadcaster to engage in what he described as “soft diplomacy”. But the focus should be on journalism, not diplomacy.
Motorists v cyclists: it doesn’t have to be this way
This week, the Adelaide cycling community experienced the death (via the media) of one of its own, writes Adelaide cyclist Andrew (Wombat) Wright.
Daily Proposition: Did someone call for a new doctor?
If you’ve never watched Doctor Who, it’s a good time to get in the Tardis. The series is back, with a new doctor played by Matt Smith, a floppy-haired whirlwind of fidgety mania who slips easily into the iconic role.
M&As: when “merchant banker” is rhyming slang for “real estate agent”
Shareholders should be afraid. The nascent sharemarket boom is starting to encourage chatter of mergers and acquisitions: a handy way for investment bankers to charge enormous fees and for executives to increase their remuneration.
VIDEO: The story of Frankie magazine
Founder of trendy Australian fashion magazine Frankie, Louise Bannister, explains how two 20-somethings turned a little idea into a big, successful magazine.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Female workers at a super disadvantage
One Crikey reader argues that changes to superannuation rules works against women. Plus, at least John Brumby sticks up for his states and the mess of NT public hospitals.
Dispatches from Steve Keen’s Debt March
Rob Burgess is accompanying economist Steve Keen as he walks to Mount Kosciusko, doing everything in his power to prick the “property bubble” and put the Australian economy back on what he thinks is a sounder footing.
Business As Usual: While Greece faces reality and capitulates, who’s pinching the spuds in Britain?
The IMF and the European Commission are dropping into Athens for a chat … The noisy takeover battle for Macarthur Coal gathers pace … Sigma’s chief leaving the company … Inflation problem in China? What problem? … and the case of the disappearing spuds in UK.
Simons: Stewart case a gut wrencher
The case of Nationwide News and Australian editor Paul Whittaker versus the Office of Police integrity is turning in to a high stakes game, with the reputation of the OPI and The Australian newspaper in play.
