Grattan: Who Dares Wins (or fails)Julia Gillard’s stance on boat people and the ETS proves she can take risks, albeit calculated risks for voter approval. The PM is effectively saying “trust me” but this has raised wider issues about what she stands for, writes Michelle Grattan.
July, 2010
Two redheads don’t make a right: is Gillard becoming the new Pauline Hanson?
Pauline Hanson famously tapped into notions of racism and community division and there are traces of her beliefs in Julia Gillard’s refugee policy speech earlier this week, says Larry Buttrose.
Has Gillard back-flipped on boat people?
Daily Media Wrap: Just two days after announcing the government’s rejigged strategy on boat people, Julia Gillard appears to have taken a bizarre back-flip on the whereabouts of her proposed regional processing (read: detention) centre.
Film review: The Karate Kid — off and on entertainment
The Karate Kid is generic and predictable, like we always knew it would be, and the narrative structure is engineered in such a way that you’re never pleased or surprised at the directions it takes, writes Luke Buckmaster.
The lady with the stall below Thong Lo station
Each morning she is there, her stall set up beneath the stairs of the Thong Lo skytrain station in Thailand, long before the sun is up. Damian Doyle guesses her story.
Checking the docket on offshore processing
The cost of outsourcing our handling of asylum seekers is said to be enormous. Pinning it down, however, is a little more difficult.
Jobs-led bottleneck could see rate hike sooner
We added more jobs than expected in June — 45,900 — or three times the number the market experts reckoned. The Aussie dollar went for a fly, says Glenn Dyer.
Media fury as government, erm, does what it demanded
The Australian and the Financial Review demanded that the Government retreat on the RSPT. Now that the Government has done exactly that, they’re giving it a flogging.
The IPCC truth: flawed, but don’t believe everything you read
Reading some of the media coverage on the report into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, you’d think it had condemned the IPCC for gross misrepresentation of the climate science. Climate scientist Andrew Macintosh cuts to the truth.
Mind the (gender) gap
How will the ascension of Australia’s first female prime minister influence female voters, if at all? And how will Tony Abbott fare with them now his opposite number is a woman? Let’s examine the numbers.
Pilot error may have led to fatal chopper crash
An inquiry into a fatal helicopter crash says that the pilot may have been insufficiently skilled to hover close to a rock formation, shown in the last image on the camera of one of the victims.
Herald Sun gets down to business, cutting coverage as staff walk
What is going on inside the Herald Sun’s once-vaunted business section? The news that four senior staffers are all preparing to up-sticks has left News’ default national business desk scrambling to plug the yawning editorial gap.
Come in Spinner: Companies and NGOs — how close is too close?
The BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill is not only creating a mess in nearby states — it’s also creating a massive mess with BP’s decades-long campaign to work with NGOs on environmental issues, writes Noel Turnbull.
Gans: Let’s get in on this people smuggling business
What a mess asylum seeker policy appears to be, with so little clear articulation of what it is in the context of other options that existed. It’s all about looking “tough”, writes Joshua Gans.
World Cup: Rundle’s World Cup: poverty, brought to you by imitation Adidas
Further down the road, this area — sewered, powered, solar cells on each roof — ends, and we’re in shack territory. Here poverty is more reliably poor, odd strips of lino making a floor, furniture as off-cuts. But even here there’s a ghetto-blaster and a stack of CDs or a rack of sharp shirts.
Rundle: Faulkner, the election and the exhaustion of mainstream politics
With the resignation from the ministry of John Faulkner, a great part of what was left of the Left has left the centre of the ALP.
Get in quick lobbyists! Government cobbles together climate change policy
The federal government appears to be cobbling together a credible climate change policy to take to a snap election, writes Business Spectator’s Giles Parkinson.
What’s happening at the National Indigenous Times?
It is early days for the new team at the NIT and Crikey wishes them well — we need strong and independent voices in indigenous affairs journalism — but the early signs are not good.
Lessons in History: Asylum seeker fear is in the fabric of our nation
There exists an eternal and unshakeable fear within the Australian populace of those who come here from elsewhere seeking a better life. This fear is nothing new, writes Mike Stuchbery.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Gillard, rednecks and asylum seekers
Julian Burnside responds to Bernard Keane’s article yesterday. Plus, the passionate asylum seeker debate continues…
Morning Market Report: Wall St rebounds, local markets up
The Dow Jones is over 10,000 for the first time this month. It’s the first rise in eight days.
Daily Proposition: Delve into the murky world of British tabloid press
Making News, Tony Wilson’s second novel, is a scathing commentary on tabloid journalism’s gorge on the greasy spoon of contemporary celebrity, writes Lee McGowan.
Media briefs: A salute to the NT News … PR on the cheap …
The perfect example of why we love the NT News today, with a perfect trifecta on their front page. Plus, cheap press releases and other media tidbits from around the globe.
This day in Crikey: Thursday, 8 July, 2004
McCrann delivers biggest ever Crikey spray, Thursday, 8 July, 2004, byTerry McCrann.
