Were the total benefits of debt-funded stimulus greater than or less than the total costs of that debt-funded stimulus?
August, 2010
Rundle: you call this democracy? It’s time to start again
What if a government is formed without majority support? It could be the chance for renewal, writes Guy Rundle.
CSL goes for another buyback … this time $900m
Australia’s biggest drug company, CSL Ltd, seems to have run out of ideas for new investment, so it is going for another buyback offer to shareholders of up to $900 million.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Politicians are supposed to be able to persuade
Crikey readers have their say on the election.
Morning Market Report: US markets up after a quiet day
Wall Street closed up 9 overnight in another quiet session.
Daily Proposition: See a Hitchcockian suspense thriller
Roman Polanski’s new thriller The Ghost Writer — stars Ewan McGregor as the eponymous literary hack who embarks upon his first foray into political novelising and realises a bunch of sleep deprived nights later that it wasn’t such a great idea.
Media briefs: Aussie Scientology journos on the hunt … seeking men with 7mate
The Church of Scientology has long employed ‘investigative reporters’ to work for their magazine Freedom. And now they’re recruiting in Australia. Plus, meet Google TV, change your name if you want online privacy and other media news.
Campaign Crikey leftovers: Campaign Crikey Leftovers: PM does FM … the forgotten independents … Leaflet Watch …
Kyle and Jackie O, ornament to democracy. FM radio is hardly the place to seek political enlightenment, but this morning Sandilands and O forgot that an interview is about the guest, not about them. Between them, they spoke for 767 words, two-thirds of them Kyle. The Ranga-in-Chief managed just 742. Number of prime ministerial words […]
Video of the Day: A peek at Nine’s virtual election studio
Very cool or extremely lame? Channel Nine’s new-fangled virtual studio, which will be showcased on election night, will probably be a mixture of both. In this behind-the-scenes vid, Michael Usher reveals some of the tricks of the trade and how “this virtual land begins and ends”. We can’t help but feel that somewhere along the […]
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Flight plan altered. Staff at Jetstar were told this morning that both Jetstar and Qantas B787s will be flown under a new start-up company. Fairfax mutterings: life after Churchill. With The Age’s Don Churchill said to be in his last few months as CEO, there is increasing talk at Media House about who will succeed him. […]
Oh no, it’s the Giant Baby Election Funpack
Download your Antony Green’s cloned head in a jar action cards and baby tokens here. Download a nicely packaged high-res version of the Election Night Giant Baby Game here.
Crikey Says: My surplus is bigger than your surplus
Yesterday Wayne Swan took election campaign shenanigans to new lows with his pre-emptive rebuttal to the Coalition’s costings announcement.
PHOTO GALLERY: Six eco-savvy subterranean homes
Defying the common wisdom behind skyscrapers - that the greater the height, the more impressive the building - are these six gorgeous “buried” homes, which take landscape architecture to new (somewhat low) heights.
VIDEO: Yo yo yo, check out this champion
Distract yourself from the election madness, with a little look at the true sport of kings: yo-yoing. This is the winner of 2010 World YoYo Contest. Suddenly ‘Walk the Dog’ doesn’t seem very clever.
The Mac Guy jail broke his iPhone
It seems everybody is getting into jail breaking their iPhones these days - even the guy from the commercial. Actor Justin Long aka “the Mac Guy” unwittingly revealed on late night TV that he too has joined the jail breaking craze.
Salvador Dali is like sex: so bad it’s good
Salvador Dali’s twisted paintings are widely regarded as works of hallucinogenic genius. But Dali was crazy in the coconut and his deranged work is really bad - so bad, in fact, that it’s good, writes Jed Perl.
Embracing the pain: an interview with Bret Easton Ellis (part 1)
Author Bret Easton Ellis is best known for hardcore risque novels such as American Psycho. At Byron Bay Writers Festival Crikey book blogger Angela Meyer and fellow writer Kathy Charles interviewed the famous literary firebrand.
Election victor faces growth losses
Whoever wins the federal election will almost certainly inherit an economy on the slowdown. While the Australian balance sheet is still looking comparatively rosy, new index figures suggest the pace of economic growth will continue to weaken.
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The federal election as explained by Kanye West
In a moment of genius, Lorelai Vashti combined photos of Tony and Julia on the campaign trail with tweets from newest Twitter superstar Kanye West. This is why the internet is brilliant.
Huffington: Obama doesn’t care about you, deal with it
There’s a lot of chatter in progressive America about how ‘disappointing’ Obama is. But Obama was never going to transform the US. One man can only do so much, writes Arianna Huffington.
Obama struggling to sell economic message
As American congress approaches its mid-term elections, Obama is jet-setting across the country defending his handling of the GFC and attempting to sell the government’s economic plan. The public, however, don’t appear to be buying it.
Google says change your name or have your past searched
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has recently warned about the dangers of online privacy violations and has suggested an effective method for users to protect their online identities: they can simply change their name.
Aussie boob tube for blokes
The Seven Network has announced a new digital TV channel marketed specifically towards men. Set to leave the locker room late next month, 7Mate will have an emphasis on sport and cars. Struth! says Dan Barrett.
