The Labour guy was good, he was too good, he gave his spiel like he’d done a thousand times before, the Tory kid sounded like he was presenting Q3 figures for the south-east regional health centre, and the Lib Dem, well she tried.
April, 2010
Farmer: Storm scandal means it’s back to brown paper bags
There were clearly more than a few people with a little inside knowledge last week about the Melbourne’s Storm’s salary cap problems.
Hey Rudd, choosing child care isn’t like picking a laundromat
Kevin Rudd assumes that all capital cities are uniform child care markets, that is the ratios of vacancies in any city is counted as one indicator, rather than many and diverse.
Will Bowen’s reforms end Australians’ deep disengagement with their super?
Somewhat unexpectedly, Chris Bowen has produced a comprehensive and innovative series of reforms for the financial services industry. But there’ll be no legislation before next year and possibly not until July 1, 2011.
Mungo MacCallum: Mungo: Rudd slowly shedding Dr Jekyll image in favour of Hyde
We are still getting glimpses of the old Kevin ‘07, the avuncular figure who won the nation’s trust a mere three years ago. But it is a safe bet that in the weeks ahead we will see rather less of Mr Nice Guy.
Don’t write off another credit crunch if Greece defaults
If Greece was a company, it would be on the verge of administration. Right now it’s three weeks from default, an event that has the potential to derail the global economic recovery, especially in Europe.
CPRS into the deep freeze
There used to be a bipartisan agreement on the need for an ETS. Now we’re further away from one than ever before.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: A corrupt storm in a tea-cup
Crikey readers weigh in on the Melbourne storm salary cap scandal and Carl Williams — is Victoria the new corrupt Queensland? Plus climate change deniers and people smuggling.
This day in Crikey: Thursday, April 27, 2006
Thursday April 27, 2006, Beaconsfield mine update, by Margaretta Pos in Hobart.
Media briefs: Fairfax scrambles to prop up Weekly … APN under fire
The appearance of the glossy The Weekly Review has shone the spotlight on the declining fortunes of Fairfax rival The Melbourne Weekly. Plus, NY Times stress about the WSJ and other media news.
Political snippets: Spin takes a wrong turn
Blowing the whistle on a political spin king, Murdoch coverage goes under the cover, every so slowly the coalition is narrowing the gap with the Labor Party and other political snippets of the day.
Video of the Day: Creepy space monkeys against climate change
Ben Lee and the World Wildlife Fund team up to tell the strange and sad story of an astronaut monkey (no, really) returning to Earth after 65 years in space, to a planet ravaged by climate change. The Forbidden Zone was once a paradise…
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: The true cost of war
Why is it that the federal government has sat on a report that it commissioned on homelessness among veterans for more than a year now?
Daily Proposition: Fly high, the Fame-seeking kids are all right
They’re going to live forever (like the song embedded in your head, a tumour out of remission). They’re going to learn how to fly (high!). They feel it coming together. Fame is back.
Crikey Says: Troy, you won’t be missed
It doesn’t get much tackier than Troy Buswell, who, at the time of writing, just resigned as West Australia’s Treasurer. Adios to seedy politics and no decorum.
Tasmania and Britain: a tale of two Nicks
Tasmanian Greens leader Nick McKim and the UK’s Liberal Democratic leader Nick Clegg share more than a first name, writes Henry Melville: there are some striking similarities in how the two third-party leaders have waged their wars.
Dunlop: Why Abbott could win
Tony Abbott’s straight talking and outside-of-the box thinking have won over many in the media — and may yet win over the voting public, says Tim Dunlop.
Shafer: Murdoch wants New York’s love, not its money
Look at moi, look at moi: the WSJ’s new New York section is more about winning over the people of New York than it is about ad dollars or sales revenue, says Jack Shafer.
ACT Labor members rebel against factional deals
Factional forces in the ACT Labor Party are in disarray after a Left-Right deal to split the safe Federal seats of Canberra and Fraser was defeated by party members who ignored the deal to preselect Andrew Leigh and Gai Brodtmann, reports Bernard Keane.
Dirty denim: how blue jeans are turning China’s water black
Textile factories in Xintang, China, where half the West’s jeans are made, are poisoning the Pearl River with blue dye, putting an entire ecosystem at risk.
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What if you had bought Apple stock instead of an Apple product?
An amazing graph comparing how much money you would have made by investing in Apple stock instead of various Apple gadgets: if you’d invested that $5700 in 1997 instead of buying that PowerBook G3, you’d now be sitting on $330,563.
Dilbert does the leaked iPhone
Dilbert creator has inked an exclusive online-only strip about the Gizmodo iPhone 4 leak: “All it really needed was Wally”.
Our deep, bitter anger over housing prices
House prices is an election changing issue and not because homeowners are crowing about profits. Houses are too expensive, interest rates are rising and voters are getting resentful, writes Charles Purcell.
