Is our economic future at risk as a result of the huge debts we’ve accumulated to indulge our love affair with housing?
September, 2010
Queensland nurses pull the pin on Bligh’s Left power base
The Queensland Nurses Union will disaffiliate from the Australian Labor Party’s Queensland branch, stripping 12 votes from Anna Bligh’s Left power base on the state conference floor and increasing pressure on Australian Workers Union kingpin Bill Ludwig to knife her as premier.
Floyd Landis is coming to town … panic breaks out in cycling
For all the hysteria he has caused in Australian cycling over the past week, you would be forgiven for thinking that Floyd Landis was an evil genius with a dastardly plan to wreck the future of Australian and world cycling.
Essential: voters reject another poll … and we don’t hate the media
The major parties are still locked up tight in voter support - but we’re losing our taste for another election, it seems. And most of us think the media did a good or average job of covering the election.
The real economy isn’t what you expect
Our workforce has changed dramatically in the past 25 years and its evolution continues in some surprising areas.
Crikey Wrap: fraud, corruption and freedom in Afghanistan elections
The recurring theme in last year’s presidential Afghanistan elections was fraud, and this weekend’s lower parliamentary elections in Afghanistan appeared to be no different.
Labor risks forgetting who the enemy is
If Labor were to de-escalate its war on the Greens it would be in a much better position to fight off the opposition challenge where it matters.
Norris’ pay obscenely high but not the worst
It seems like the widespread criticism of Ralph Norris’ $16 million pay packet for 2010 is perhaps harsh — in relative terms.
Mungo MacCallum: Mungo: all bets are off for PM, Abbott still locked in the past
Everything is up for grabs once more, and as far as Julia Gillard is concerned, she is starting pretty much with a blank sheet.
Same-s-x adoption: exposing the myths in Rundle’s stance
Guy Rundle has made a case against adoption by male same-s-x couples that is a hodgepodge of gut-driven opinion, writes Dr Tad Tietze, a public hospital psychiatrist.
Banks rewrite GFC history, ignores RBA lifeline
One of the urban myths is that our “strong” banks survived the GFC because of strong regulation.
Cost Benefit delusions of the NBN
If you actually know how economic cost benefit analysis works, you understand that it is completely incapable of producing even a marginally meaningful result on a project like the NBN.
Business as usual under Labor’s ‘new’ income management
Implementation of income management reforms has just meant one more round of racist, humiliating interaction with government bureaucracy for communities suffering under the intervention, writes Paddy Gibson.
Democrats’ shot at maintaining majority not looking rosy
The Democrats are facing serious losses this November due to a failing US economy and the limited policy success of the Obama Administration.
Daily Proposition: See two of the greatest American plays
For the next week, Sydney theatre audiences can see perhaps the finest American play of the past decade and one of the greatest American plays of the past century in repertory. Don’t miss August: Osage County and Our Town.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Mallard vs. Mallard
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: Gold up, oil down as Aussie markets struggle
Economic data came in better than expected and Microsoft put on nearly 6% for the week on talk they were planning on selling debt. Gold hit another record high and oil fell 91c to $73.66.
Media briefs: The Oz cashes in on sport … NT News watch
The Australian has found a new way to repackage its sports content for commercial gain — sport for rich people. Plus, Pizza Hut gets emotional and other media news of the day.
Political snippets: Tyranny of the minority
Two or three per cent of voters who feel so strongly about an issue that they will change the way they vote because of it are far more worrying for an MP than the 97% of voters who, whatever their views on the issue, do not feel strongly enough about it to change their vote because of it.
Video of the Day: Rise of the Tea Party Express
In another slice of CGI gold from Taiwan-based animation studio NMA.tv, who previously covered the Australian federal election and the history of Rupert Murdoch versus The Times, this short vid details how rising US conservative force the Tea Party Express threatens to derail Republican Party candidates — and possibly Obama too.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
A public servant writes … Labor MPs at the Holy Grail in Kingston were talking frankly last week in their round-up on the past three years in government. One current minister and two Labor backbenchers were stark in their criticism in the round-up on the recent election: “Effective long-term staffers were pushed from the Labor camp after […]
Crikey Says: BP’s Macondo oil well is dead. So are a lot of other things.
It only took five months. Yesterday, the US government officially declared BP’s Macondo oil well “effectively dead”.
