The appointment of new directors to the boards of the ABC and SBS has proven to be inexplicably and distressingly slow.
June, 2010
Diary of an iVirgin: this apps caper is expensive
After a week of mucking about with his new iPad, media writer Andrew Dodd concludes it is both brilliant and idiotic in equal measure.
This day in Crikey: Monday, June 7, 2004
Monday, June 7, 2004, Boilermaker Bill on Eddie Obeid.
Political snippets: The good and bad news for Labor
The proportion of people who think Labor will win the next election is dropping fast. And that’s the good news. Plus, Young Boozer III wins the primary and other political news.
Video of the Day: Flannery at the Deakins
Tim Flannery delivers a cracking keynote address for the Alfred Deakins Lectures 2010, a series of talks at the Wheeler Centre discussing the climate change challenge.
Mungo MacCallum: A politician is an arse upon which everything has sat except a man
The government is in diabolical trouble. No one gets Rudd’s mining tax and Tony Abbott is now a possibility of becoming PM. Whoever you vote for, a politician always gets in, so why bother?
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: No winner in water comp
Frantelle bottled spring water have a “win $10,000” promotion. Except, no one can actually enter it, due to the clever spot where labels are glued together.
Crikey Says: No amount of spin will save the NSW government
The NSW government is a walking corpse, stumbling Zombie-like towards an election next March that will finally put it out of its misery.
The real price of Karmichael and Israel
It is going to cost the AFL more than the $7 million they will pay for Karmichael Hunt and Israel Folau over the next three years, writes Nick Tedeschi.
Sketching the Symphony
W H Chong had a delightful evening at a Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performance, sitting with the conductor’s wife and children and ogling the $250,000 piano with the perspex lid.
Abbott’s illicit love affair with miners
Tony Abbott’s actions of late — siding with unpopular Labor premiers on health, agreeing with the mining bigwigs — are risky. It exposes the Coalition to the same mishaps Rudd’s encountered.
Why did E.M. Forster stop writing?
Author E.M. Forster didn’t write for 46 years. Why? Because he had sex. After falling in love with a man, it seems he was no longer able to write his fiction stories about heterosexual love.
Abbott’s best poll ever
The latest Nielsen poll is a shocker for Rudd, with the Coalition leading 53-47 in the two party preferred vote. And now, Greens voters aren’t giving preferences to the ALP. Possum Comitatus has the figures.
Internet is a human right
When it comes to online, freedom trumps privacy. We shouldn’t fight drunken photos on Facebook being public but instead protest the censorship of political debate online, writes Julia Baird.
Fake it ’til you make it: when Twitter meets satire
One of the greatest things about Twitter are fake accounts and Fake Fielding and Big Harto are two Crikey faves. Time offers up a list of 10 of the best fakers from the US offering doses of satire in 140 characters or less.
Shanahan: Digging Rudd out of his hole
A special mining tax Newspoll finds ALP voters in marginal seats in mining areas of QLD and WA turning away from Rudd. The RSPT may cost Rudd the election, says Dennis Shanahan.
How much would you pay for extra legroom in economy?
Virgin Blue isn’t the only airline looking at less legroom for the cheapest seats. But will individuals really pay more for the few extra centimetres? asks Ben Sandilands.
The Afghan warlords being paid by the US
Afghan warlords — supported by the US — are bringing peace to Afghanistan in a manner completely undermining the US war efforts: by ignoring police and local governments.
How to become a saint
When he’s not coping with church abuse scandals, Pope Benedict XVI loves canonizing saints. But what does one have to do to join the sainthood? Apparently it’s about more than just miracles.
Israel: now a liability for the US?
America’s strong ties to Israel are about stabilising the Middle East area and the US isn’t about to give up that relationship, even following the flotilla attack. But Israel is now longer an asset to the US.
Why Israel’s lefties are waving their Israeli flags high
This week young Israelis — a mix of gay, straight, students and non-political types — united to defend Israel being slandered by the rest of the world. Ethan Perlson explains.
Henning Mankell: My Gaza flotilla diary
Author Henning Mankell was on board the Gaza-bound flotilla attacked by Israel last week. He tells his story of the raid and then how he was captured and deported out of Israel.
Grattan: Kevin, it’s time to panic
