Without action by by the US Government, the idea of an international agreement on climate change is simply a joke.
October, 2010
Video of the Day: The West Wing cast reunion
Here’s one for loyal West Wing fans: Martin Sheen (aka President Bartlett) and the rest of the gang reunite for a yak about the show’s success, what it did for their careers and the “uncanny” parallels between Aaron Sorkin’s story line and the ascent of Barack Obama.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Gillard didn’t always like OH&S reforms. What a difference an election makes. The current imbroglio between the PM and the premier of NSW should be viewed through the prism of the following resolution, passed at the 2009 ALP national conference: Labor believes that the health and safety and workers’ compensation laws must deliver the highest […]
Insulation fire risk: the data is in
After the insulation scheme debacle back in February, the biggest question was: if you had a dodgy installation, is it more likely that any fire would occur sooner rather than later, and if so, by how much? The data is finally in, explains Possum Comitatus.
Laying Nudie bare
Founder of Nudie juice Tim Pethick explains how he managed to turn a naked fruit cartoon and crushed oranges, into a company making $12 million in sales in its first full year, including his slightly dodgy actions to get Coles to stock Nudie products.
Why I hated Twitter – and now I love it
For a long time Michelle Baranga was staunchly anti-Twitter until the day she eventually signed up and her romance with a service she says “redefines friendship” began. Here is her love letter.
Rise of the machines: cinema’s best robot betrayals
Over the years the cinema has presented a plethora of back-stabbing robots - from the Replicants in Blade Runner to Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Vine lists ten of the best.
Why Obama needs to hit the reset button
To revive his political fortunes Barack Obama needs to change tact: think small and tactical and take inspiration from Bill Clinton’s triangulation playbook. Derek Shearer proposes some “modest” suggestions.
Why David Hicks is a liar
The new autobiography by one of the first prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Australian David Hicks, is “self-serving, sanitised and disingenuous”, declares Sally Neighbour. Hicks failed to analyse or question his own actions and motives and underplays his role in Afghanistan .
Climate campaign follows the money
While the political debate about a global treaty and a price on carbon continues to rage, climate change campaign groups are trying to prevent new polluting infrastructure by targeting where the money comes from, writes John Hepburn.
Another day at the office: more foreclosures, more perks
A deposition released this week in Florida claims one “foreclosure mill” paid its employees according to how many foreclosures they could process. One manager allegedly signed 1000 documents a day - none of which he read, writes Ryan McCarthy
How the Chilean media engrossed the world
As the barely believable plight of the Chilean miners progressed, the media arrived in droves and the story quickly grew into an international sensation. Rory Carroll discusses techniques the Chilean media used to help bring the miners to global attention.
How to use social media to empower your business
At a social media conference last week in New York, online marketing experts discussed techniques businesses can use to engage their customers in online environments. Here are ten of the top strategies.
Downer: We need to negotiate with the Taliban
Let’s face it: the Taliban is a strong part of the political environment in Afghanistan and therefore we must engage with them to achieve stability. It’s just like how peace only arrived in Northern Ireland once the IRA joined the negotiation process, says former foreign minister Alexander Downer.
Ellis: Tony Abbott floored me
Tony Abbott is often regarded as an expert in the field of gaffe makers, but Bob Ellis experienced a different man: a charismatic and formidable politician with clever responses to tricky questions and an off the cuff ability to quote Brideshead Revisited.
Film review: Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D — slick 3D, crappy movie
The big surprise about the latest installment in the Resident Evil series is that it utilizes the 3D format better than anything since Avatar. Pity about the story and, well, just about everything else, writes Luke Buckmaster.
Cities to love and hate
Inspired by Foreign Policy magazine’s claim that supercities will overtake countries as the world’s economic and political powers, the well-traveled Kevin O’Faircheallaigh reflects on some of the world’s mighty metropolises.
Labor’s new direction on asylum seekers
Crikey Media Wrap: Yesterday the Gillard administration did the seemingly unthinkable: they outlined — gasp! — a slightly different policy direction on refugee and asylum seeker processing.
Grattan: The dirty war between Julia and Kristina
Has PM Gillard placed NSW Premier in the Sophie’s Choice position that she’s claiming over workplace safety reforms? At the heart of the fight is a debate over the role of unions and the NSW government dependence on them, argues Michelle Grattan.
Atkins: One sunny-side Rudd, coming up
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd’s frolicking around Rome for the canonisation of Mary Mackillop reminds Dennis Atkins of the days of Sunrise starring Rudd. Will we fall for his charm again?
Online news: the Year of the Dwarf Penis
Internet journalism isn’t just sex, gore and photoshopped galleries of celebrities as fruit. Think of the Iran protests and the WikiLeaks Collateral Murder video, says Crikey editor Sophie Black, in a defence of online news.
A Crikey Sports history of twin coaching brothers
Brothers coaching is a rare event in sports. But what about twin brothers coaching at the same time? Or for that matter any twin? Crikey Sports investigated this important, vexing question.
