The ATSB released a damning report into an astonishingly unsafe approach to Sydney Airport by a QantasLink turbo-prop. There is no effective accountability in air safety reporting in this country.
June, 2010
McGrath Foundation should break their ties with Blackmores
Cancer sufferers desperately need all the support they can get, writes Loretta Marron, but the link between the McGrath Foundation and Blackmores is questionable.
Exec pay: AICD solution is to hide some from shareholders
The top 20 CEOs in Australia (that is, those managing the 20 largest companies), were paid on average 320 times the wage of the lowest-paid workers in the country.
Business As Usual: China car sales slow … there’s gold in them thar … don’t weep for hedge funds, cheer Rio …
Gold is going through the roof, with a 12% rise so far this quarter, hedge funds are doing it tough, aluminium up, along with Rio’s long-term debt and other business news.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: It’s not ETS being Greens
According to one Crikey reader, “the ETS surrender was the signal for many Labor voters to turn to the Greens in desperation.” And the National Heart Foundation ticks.
Morning Market Report: Markets and Wall St rebound
Business confidence hit its highest levels since September 2008 (it wasn’t exactly booming in Sept 2008). Ben Bernanke said his best guess was for a continued economic recovery at a ‘moderate’ pace.
Media briefs: Fairfax’s big business in NZ … Google and its privacy ‘mistake’ …
The ‘Australianisation’ of NZ print and online. Plus, twitter tweets change, readers love dark and depressing news and is Apple fudging the books? All your media news of the day.
Daily Proposition: Read a fabulously Australian Gen Y tale
If you want to read a book that’s getting a bit of buzz around the traps, why not have a read of a memoir that goes by the deceptively bland title The Family Law, by Benjamin Law.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: The focus returns to Kevin
With the media focus more and more on Kevin Rudd, the many weeks of near parity with Tony Abbott’s coverage now seems well in the past. But no one could escape Sex and the City.
This day in Crikey: Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009, “The tangled Chaser chain of responsibility”, by Andrew Dodd.
Political snippets: Why opinion polls don’t help us at all
Now that the federal election is getting closer the opinion polls mania is well and truly upon us. Plus, Kevin Rudd’s weight problem and the responsible BP and other political snippets.
Video of the Day: Prison World Cup
A South African prison is creating its own mini World Cup football contest. They may be locked up, but they can still get infected with World Cup fever.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Don’t forget the water miners
Will our government be looking into the highly lucrative extractive industry of water mining for bottling purposes and applying the $40 CPRS tax on the profits of these operators?
Crikey Says: Forget Europe, the US is on life support
Greece is on life support. Spain is ailing. Britain is far from well. But the really sick patient in the global emergency ward isn’t in Europe.
World Cup: 
How to explain football to AFL fans
A very clever concept, a guide to understanding World Cup teams by comparing them to similar AFL teams. So Brazil is the Geelong Cats of the Cup and North Korea is more of a Richmond Tigers.
President of low housing prices
As the American real estate market crashed, the whole nation suffered. Take a look at how the value of US presidents’ homes have fared: the Obamas are doing OK, the Kennedys not so good.
The secrets of a great non-fiction book cover
Book covers can be beautiful artwork, but according to designers, non-fiction covers are much harder than fiction since they have to both factual and interesting. Jessica Au explains.
The founder who missed out on a bite of the Apple
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne: the three founders of Apple. Ron who? Well, the third co-founder of Apple sold his 10% share for just US$800 in 1976. It’d be worth US$22 billion today.
Gold, gold, gold for investors
Gold prices have just set a new record high, as investors rushed to invest in a reliable stock amongst violatile world markets. It rose as high as US$1,254.50 in the US.
Costello: Treasury should butt out of tax policy
The business community are usually lazy supporters of the Liberal Party. But the RSPT has got them incensed to now fight Labor and save the Australian economy, claims Peter Costello.
BP is here to help, Google told me so
BP is spending $10,000 a day buying out the top adwords on “oil spill” searches on Google. Although it is PR genius, is BP’s manipulation of the information super-highway obstructing the real news?
Guide to the US primaries
Eleven US states have the primaries coming up, including the fight for the Democratic majority leader Senator Harry Reid’s seat. NY Times tells you which are the best races to watch.
