Clear, simple and compelling arguments for the RSPT can be made. The trouble is, they’re not coming from the Government.
May, 2010
Better outcome for mental health care? Get your hand off it.
With the recent focus on social workers and the Medicare rebate, it is timely to promote greater awareness of what social workers provide in terms of psychological and emotional assistance, writes clinical social worker Amy Addinsall.
Thailand prepares for economic rebuild after the violence
Now that Thailand is slowly getting back to something approaching civility, it’s time for an accounting. A lot of unquantifiable damage done to the country’s reputation by the disorder, but we won’t find out until much later in the year if the economic fabric of the economy has been affected.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The politics of taxing resources
Crikey readers weigh in on the Resource Super Profit Tax and Bernard Keane’s reporting of it. Plus, the tabloids and their love for the David Campbell scandal and the BRW rich list.
Morning Market Report: Market rollercoaster continues
The Dow was up 3 at best and down 141 at worst and lost 80 points in the last 15 minutes of trade. Financials were the worst performing sector, but both oil and gold rebounded
Media briefs: The Stones slap down Aussie reports … all-too-relevant advertising …
A Herald Sun story has been rolled off, by the Rolling Stones themselves. Plus, more from the world of awkward advertising placements, cost cutting curtails Obama’s entourage and other media snippets.
Daily Proposition: Can you survive three hours of Survivor tonight?
Tonight on Channel Nine, a three-hour extravaganza brings Survivor’s 20th season to a close, writes Matt de Neef.
This day in Crikey: Friday, May 25, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007, First wives: plus ca change, writes Christian Kerr.
Political snippets: Abbott’s team playing the man
The opposition is attacking Treasury secretary Ken Henry as being a Labor gun for hire. Are they playing the man or the ball? Plus, evidence of a warming world and other political snippets.
Video of the Day: Little Obama
A behind-the-scenes look at a new film about Barack Obama’s childhood in Indonesia, Little Obama — which apparently features a rather effeminate singing cyclist:
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: How to beat a hiring freeze
Which department is flaunting parliamentary scrutiny of caps on executive numbers by appointing managers as “principal scientists” even though their role is strictly management?
Crikey Says: The Downer doctrine is dumb
The government’s decision to publicly criticise Israel for the “abuse and counterfeiting” of Australian passports is not about Israel. It’s about the way civilised governments treat each other.
The price of paywalls: blocking out the bloggers
The most popular outlets for bloggers to link to are traditional news sites like NY Times and the BBC. So how will the proposed NY Times paywall affect its blogger audience?
How to fix a World Cup match
Soccer (or “football” to you purists) is rife with match fixing, and author Declan Hill has put his life at risk exposing it. He explains how the games are rigged and why the World Cup is a fertile field for bribery and buy-outs to flourish.
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12 events that will change the world
From alien intelligence to fusion energy: a great interactive feature from Scientific American, exploring 12 world-changing events that could take place before 2050, how likely they are, and what they’ll mean for humanity.
Who foots the bill for the Gulf oil spill?
Who has to pay the bill for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? And how much will they have to cough up? An environmental law expert explains the complexities of liability for environmental disasters.
A how-to guide for haggling in China
No mere warning could have prepared me for the blood sport that is haggling in China, writes Nicole Eckersley. She offers her tips for not getting ripped off, like, it’s cheaper if you don’t speak the same language.
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The Twitterverse, visualised
Taking the “Twitterverse” idea to a new level, design studio Information Architects graph the 140 most influential users on Twitter as an entire galaxy. Epic.
Goldie Hawn could teach golden Gillard a thing or two
The spirit of learning has been crushed in classrooms by kids being forced to practise, practise, practise for NAPLAN tests. Children shouldn’t be political pawns, writes Phil Cullen.
Crabb: My political oral fixation
There’s a suspicion of elegant language in politics. Instead, we’re stuck with Extruders, Bunglers and Meat and Three Veg style orators, who just use language to confuse, says Annabel Crabb.
How Jane Austen became a global brand
Jane Austen was hardly a household name when she died in 1817, but in the 1870s, “Austenmania” started spreading around the globe — and it isn’t dying out any time soon.
The all-you-can-earn Buffett
Warren Buffet is the best investor in the world, the responsible, folksy old timer outsider from Omaha, different from the slick Wall Street guys. Right? Not quite, says NY Mag.
