Meet the soldier who leaked the Wikileaks killing videoAn 22 year old army intelligence analyst has been arrested for leaking thousands of classified US military documents, videos and surveillance — including the Collateral Murder footage to Wikileaks. And he was dobbed in by a well known former hacker.
June, 2010
What’s Kevin to do?
Daily Media Wrap: It’s been another week of bad polls for Kevin Rudd. His personal popularity is down, his policies are unpopular and the Greens popularity is on the rise.
Essential: Our ignorance on asylum seekers
This week’s Essential Report questioned voters on asylum seekers and boat people. The current rate of immigrants arriving by boat is about 3%, yet 10% of voters thought at least half were boat people.
The new iPhone 4
Steve Jobs donned the black skivvy for the official unveil of the new iPhone 4, which comes with video camera, video editing software and a high resolution display. Yes, Gizmodo’s leak was 100% on the money.
The winter wonderlands of Japan
Alex the Crikey intern interviews his housemate on her solo travelling through Japan, where a blizzard meant being stuck on a Japanese island of exile for four days.
World Cup: 
Hey South Africa, you’ve got a bad altitude
When it comes to high altitude games that are scheduled during the World Cup, teams best brush up on their aerodynamic physics. It’s the first cup in 24 years being played significantly over sea level.
World Cup: 
Football, a game played by Grannies
While the world waits for the FIFA Worlds Cup to start, meet the Vakhegula Vakhegula (Grannies Grannies), a South African women’s side, ranging in age from 49 to 84, that plays for love of the game.
World Cup: 
The mystery that is the North Korean team
A look at the football team no one knows about: North Korea. It’s the country’s first showing at a World Cup since 1966 and its forward is nicknamed “The People’s Wayne Rooney”.
Kevin Rudd and the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy
The defeat of the short-lived Rudd Government (2007-10) was celebrated by historians for it exposed one of history’s most epic plots: Rudd was a communist. Bernard Keane explains.
Keane: Twitter and the prosaic reality of Digital Democracy
We expect too much of politicians on social media - particularly in Australia, where its benefits are less obvious compared to those of the mass media.
Oz leaks back in court: is a deal about to be cut?
The case in which The Australian newspaper is seeking to suppress a report critical of its conduct was due to begin in the Federal Court this morning but was repeatedly delayed today.
Where do Greens voters come from?
ALP Senator-turned-pundit John Black made an unforgivable leap of logic in his hatchet job on the Greens in The Weekend Australian.
RIP Ralph, where lads used to learn a thing or two
A by-word for B-grade celebrities in bikinis and coarse blokey humour, Ralph magazine breathed its last VB-scented breath last week. Former writer Jason Mountney remembers when it was good.
It’s a Victorian behind the Storm-bashing campaign
The man as responsible as anyone for last week’s anti-Storm vitriol probably couldn’t name six Parramatta Eels, but can name the past 30 Brownlow winners, writes Ashley Browne.
Stock market in free fall, even with a job ads jump
The strengths and weakness of Australia’s current economic and financial pictures were well illustrated in separate reports this morning. Here’s the complete global economic rub.
Business As Usual: NAB sees future in US … China’s monthly check up … Murdoch buys more UK TV channels …
Inflation is tipped to rise in China, Murdoch’s BSkyB picks up some Virgin Media businesses,BP’s spending plenty on lobbying and other business news from around the globe.
Poll Bludger’s Election 2010 preview, Part 1: WA — the state of excitement!
Will history prove again that Western Australia is a problem for the ALP? Get your wonk on in this, the first in a preview series from Poll Bludger’s William Bowe on the upcoming Federal election…
Australia’s biggest UFO sighting: actually, it’s the future of space travel
When the Dragon atop a Falcon 9 rocket crossed the pre-dawn coast at about 300 kilometres above south-east Queensland on Saturday morning, it caused Australia’s biggest UFO sighting yet.
Four Corners saving the RSPT 1 million viewers at a time
It is now clear the government made a major blunder not releasing the entire Henry Report in February and allowing a major sweeping debate on tax reform to unfold before it unveiled the RSPT.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The trouble with reporting about Israel
One Crikey readers says it would be a shame if Rundle readers stopped after the first inflammatory sentence. Plus, why should the miners have been consulted before the RSPT introduced?
Essential: Rise and rise of the Greens
Labor is leaking voters to the Greens, torn between progressive voters who want the party to move to the Left, and voters who don’t understand the asylum seeker issue.
Media briefs: Bulletin faces Staerk reality … The Oz undersells Rupert’s site …
Gold Coast Council HQ abuzz over Crikey story, the king of real estate ads, typos on the front page of The Age and other media news of the day.
Morning Market Report: Markets down, bad news from both sides of the pond
European debt issues (in Hungary) and poor US job numbers caused most of the damage.
Daily Proposition: Stay inside with guitar heroes
I pretty much dare anyone who likes guitars and/or guitar-based rock and blues to not like music documentary It Might Get Loud. Tim Dunlop watches.
