July, 2010
Crikey‘s 2010 federal election campaign coverage 
The election race begins
Start your engines, the campaign has begun. Prime Minister Julia “moving forward” Gillard has called the federal election for August 21. It was a polished, if content-lite, performance by the PM, writes Bernard Keane.
Living in the whaling nations: white lies, whale-meat and weirdness
The best advice that Paul Johannessen got when moving to Japan is that everyone tells white lies. Especially when it comes to lodging forms with the government. And no one wants to talk about the dolphins.
No butts about it, the Tour is delivering drama
Overnight Mark Renshaw led out his teammate Mark Cavendish to win the stage. Unfortunately the tour’s organisers reckon Renshaw headbutted Kiwi Julian Dean on the run to the finish and have disqualified him from the race, writes Bob Gosford.
Vale Sir Charles Mackerras
Sir Charles Mackerras, one of Australia’s most respected and successful conductors, has passed away in London. Mackerras was revered by the international music community throughout his illustrious career, writes Peter McCallum and Joyce Morgan.
Video of the Day: VIDEO: Costello disrobes for an Old Spice spoof
A late entry for Video of the Day — probably Video of the Week. After the online phenomenon that is Old Spice man, World Vision CEO Tim Costello takes it all off in the name of charity.
Who profits from our foreign aid? Snapshots of a multimillion dollar industry
ACIJ’s Michelle Stephenson and Wendy Bacon begin our corporate aid snapshots with GHD International, in the latest installment of Crikey’s Who Profits From our Foreign Aid? series.
Election mania reaches climax
So we’re off to the races on 28 August, according to the ABC, with the Prime Minister to intercept Quentin Bryce on the way out of Yarralumla for her trip to France to ask that Parliament be dissolved.
Rudd leak repayment in kind to Gillard — but what about confidentiality?
Julia Gillard has a problem, whether the leak came from Rudd or not. But that’s not to say she must immediately reveal what happened on June 23.
Safety on the docks: stevedores need federal protection
Maritime workers walked off docks shortly after the tragic death of a fellow worker on Wednesday at the Appleton dock, writes Crikey intern and ex-rigger Ben Hagemann.
Legal action, and internal strife, over ABC Archbishop reports
Controversy continues to swirl around the recent Media Watch story that wasn’t — a planned probe into two ABC Lateline “special investigations” that suggested the Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson had covered up paedophile priests. Andrew Crook investigates.
Does Sky own the ‘News 24′ brand?
The battle between Sky News and the ABC’s fledgling around-the-clock news network was always going to get a little nasty. And now word has filtered out about just how precious Sky will be in protecting its turf.
US reform guarantees nothing
In a sense it’s a measure of America’s misery that in a new era of deflation and tight credit, it celebrates a Bill that curbs the banks.
The MRRT: what it really means to taxpayers
After weeks of questioning, Treasurer Wayne Swan admitted what appeared obvious to many — that the mineral resources rent tax will raise a lot less revenue for the government than the resources super profits tax would have.
Our wealthy getting a free ride: time to start giving back
Generally Australia’s wealthy are very poor at donating money to worthy causes, writes Daniel Petre, entrepreneur, philanthropist and former vice-president of Microsoft.
The Little Australia crowd will overturn one of our greatest economic reforms
The economic and moral cases for high immigration are compelling. But our current generation of leaders seem intent on reversing decades of sound policy.
Silence is golden in reporting News’ incompetence over Storm
It is clear that the Melbourne Storm salary cap rort was allowed to continue by News Ltd and its senior management because of inadequate governance.
What’s the bigger threat to marine parks: fishing or oil spills?
While commercial fishing and now recreational fishing are increasingly perceived as a threat to the oceans, it is hard to see how they are a greater threat than seismic testing and oil wells, writes Crikey naturalist Lionel Elmore.
Early leadership surprises in pollution, climate change race
As the political parties look to the race up the mountain to the election, the person wearing the yellow jersey for pollution reduction may come as a surprise to some: it’s Tony Abbott, writes John Connor, CEO of The Climate Institute.
The Oz hating on Kevin and Rhys’ bromance
Play School fans sure do put up with a lot. However The Australian may have gone a step too far this morning, when it splashed Play School mainstay Rhys Muldoon right across its front page as Kevin Rudd’s “trusted insider”.
Peering through the cracks of Murdoch’s paywall
The paywall, and the integration of the Times and the Sunday Times behind it, will happily tear up several centuries of history and join the Times and the Sunday Times — and save a fortune, writes Michael Wolff, of Newser.com (http://www.newser.com)
Come in Spinner: The quest for authenticity
Everybody aspires to authenticity — or at least the secret of how to fake it. So how good are Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott at conveying it, asks Noel Turnbull?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: No more election speculation please
Crikey readers weigh in on the Storm and News controversy, the Clem7 tunnel mayhem and whether we should all stop trying to guess the election date. August 28? October 16?
Morning Market Report: Morning Market Report
The big news was the US Senate implementing the biggest financial regulatory change of Wall Street since the Great Depression. The legislation is 2,300 pages long and will be sent to President Barack Obama to sign next week.
