A storied scholarship fund set up to honour the memory of Labor larrikin Mick Young has imploded following a fiery meeting of its trustees last night, with Melbourne ragtrade scion Saul Same launching a personal attack on rival trustee John Young.
September, 2010
Julie’s safe: the pro-competition party rejects a leadership contest
Andrew Robb probably wouldn’t have toppled Julie Bishop - but it’s funny how parties change their tune on such matters for political convenience.
News phone hacking: Beeb under threat from all angles
With the BBC battling to convince government that it is cost-effective while being mauled by the Murdoch press, an attack on Coulson - a man who has been at the heart of both organisations - isn’t in the corporation’s immediate interest, writes Oliver Milman.
The Singapore girl helps Virgin sing the Delta blues
Virgin Blue has two weeks in which to save its “vital” trans-Pacific joint venture with Delta Airlines from US disapproval, and said this morning “it’s not over yet”.
The class of ’10: the outsourcing of politics continues
The professionalisation of federal politics continues apace with more than half of the new MPs and senators elected on August 21 being former staffers, party operators or former or serving politicians.
Labor could block Coalition law-making … but probably won’t
Constitutional law experts have told Crikey that the Gillard government has the power to block funding for legislation passed by the opposition, as the crossbench MPs flirt with supporting the Coalition on some policy issues.
How the media fails us: John Menadue
Under-resourced mainstream media is not in a healthy state. It is failing significantly, with a few notable exceptions, in the health field as in most other fields, writes the Centre for Policy Development’s John Menadue.
Kohler: Abbott can still drive tax reform
The most important thing to come out of the past two weeks of horse-trading has been the plan to hold a tax summit. Or at least it could be. It could also be a complete waste of time.
Just how overvalued is our housing sector?
In a perverse way, sometimes trying to avoid risk can actually lead to far greater loss.
The WikiLeaks / Assange plot thickens
WikiLeaks’ frontman Julian Assange has told Crikey that he still has has not been informed of alleged “new information” that the prosecution service claims led to the reopening of rape investigations.
AFL crowd numbers stack up globally
The best-attended domestic sports league in the world is the National Football League. The AFL, with teams in just six or seven cities, was not that far behind, writes Ed Wyatt of Back Page Lead
World Cup: FFA’s secret mission may not stop China thwarting our World Cup bid
FIFA won’t hold successive tournaments in the same region and China is the mother lode when it comes to soccer taking over the global sports market, writes Matthew Hall.
Faggot is a bundle of sticks … and so much worse
Twitter is a rare and dangerous creature. Nobody’s quite sure what it does, but we all know that it bites if you antagonise it. It mauled Miranda Devine and Marieke Hardy, and it knocked Catherine Deveney clean off her perch at The Age. Now it’s Stephanie Rice’s turn to get twitslapped. When the Wallabies defeated the […]
Inside the motel rooms asylum seeker kids call home
The Australian government maintains that it does not detain children in immigration detention centres. Instead, children are detained in motels or mining camps, writes Pamela Curr.
Insurers brace for more bad weather
Insurance companies are bracing themselves for an increase in weather related disasters as a result of climate change, as the industry awaits an influx of claims from two events in the past week.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Nothing Australian about The Australian’s election coverage
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: Good US data pushes the market up
Consumer credit fell $3.6bn in July, slightly better than the $5.2bn expected by economists.
Political snippets: Encouraging but hardly boom times
Market economists just love to use the boom and gloom words.
Daily Proposition: See a film about a Boy
The most successful New Zealand film of all time is this modest humdinger from director Taika Waititi, titled Boy. This film has an effortless charm and manages to be both quirky and widely appealing.
Media briefs: Denton takes on Fairfax … famous fatties
Andrew Denton’s apparent spray at TV legends Graham Kennedy and Bert Newton set the Fairfax online pages alight yesterday. Too bad it was a beat-up. And is this the worst use of the criminally overused “gate” suffix?
Video of the Day: Murdoch and the Times — an animated history
The battle between the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal has been raging for decades. If you don’t have time to open the history books — and who does? — you can watch the saga accurately encapsulated in 90 succinct seconds in this animated history from the makers of Taiwan’s hilarious take on the Australian 2010 federal […]
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Match-fixing probe phones home. Authorities are now looking at a prominent Australian fast bowler and some of the games in which he played… Murdoch University review. I don’t pretend to know much about Murdoch University’s inner workings — I’m only occasionally employed by them — but …this rankles a bit. I also love the management-speak: a $20 million “adjustment”? A […]
Crikey Says: Weaning off the crack
It mightn’t be as sexy, but the media’s approach to this complex political dynamic is going to have to be a lot more nuanced. Us included.
