I can’t think of a single case in modern times when an Australian soldier or police officer has been convicted of murder for actions committed while on duty.
October, 2010
The Coalition’s long journey on Afghanistan
Tony Abbott has had a number of positions on Afghanistan. And the Coalition should reconsider its own history on military justice before butting into the prosecution of ADF personnel.
Culture Multure: the Dame Joan effect
The Dame Joan effect — a voice that sounded like a throat crammed with 20 nightingales all trilling at once.
MacKerras: plan to vote next on October 19, 2013
I feel emboldened now to name Saturday, October 19, 2013 as the date for our 44th general election for the House of Representatives.
Gawenda: ABC should be spending money on journalism, not opinion
It seems to me that The Drum is competing with commercial online commentary and opinion outfits. It has moved away from what I had hoped would be its mission.
Blaming women not the answer to abortion law reform
For too long, the Queensland Parliament has relied on the exercise of discretion by police to not prosecute abortion crimes, write EMILY’s Listers Tanja Kovac and Hutch Hussein.
Rethinking Afghanistan: no place for politics in military prosecution
Australia has an independent process for military justice and a need to comply with international obligations. To suggest that the government should step in, as Tony Abbott did yesterday, is foolish, writes Angela Priestley, editor of Lawyers Weekly.
The show Broadway rejected: Vic government resurrects the Phantom
Love never dies. Nor, apparently, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s thirst for greater fortune.
Liquidator spills more beans on Timbercorp
KordaMentha, the liquidator of failed agribusiness company Timbercorp, has discovered that the company allegedly paid secret commissions to financial planners and operated secret plantations to falsely boost yields to investors.
House price rises … just who got it right?
There was a major omission from many of today’s flood of reports on a survey claiming a rise in Australian home prices over the next three years.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The Murray-Darling and the politics of water
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: Markets up as consumer sentiment rises
Talk in the Financial Times of a £5bn rights issue by Standard Chartered bank has taken the shine off the market.
Daily Proposition: Connect the rock dots
I was a bit dubious when I first looked at Rock Connexions, concerned that it was a bit of a gimmicky, lightweight coffee-table tome. But those concerns proved, largely, unfounded.
Media briefs: Jacobson bags the Booker … Phantom of the Oprah … journos arrested in Iran …
News.com.au on the demise of Dame Joan’s celebrated stints at the ‘Oprah House’, the NT News imagines the Top End as an independent sporting nation and other tasty media morsels.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Talk of doom and devastation makes the press
The Coalition talked of doom and devastation, while the Greens and environmentalists talked of … doom and devastation.
Political snippets: Australia falling down the gender gap rankings
Australia is falling down the list in an international ranking of equality between men and women.
Video of the Day: Man versus dog in an eating contest
Forget those forgettable human versus human hot-dog eating contests, here’s a battle royale sure to get your stomach rumbling. Watch as man takes on man’s best friend in a best-of-five food-eating competition — including spaghetti, roast beef and carrots. Faster, stronger, hungrier.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
You be the judge. Chief Judge Michael Rozenes has withdrawn from a listed hearing this afternoon, as he has been called to an urgent meeting with the Attorney-General. Is Jeremy Rapke’s predicament on the agenda? Doctors’ voice signs off. Kirk Coningham, the AMA’s general manager of communications, left last week. Before he packed up his […]
Crikey Says: Message from the front line
This anonymous tip from a military wife landed in our inbox this morning.
Kidnapping of the bride — courting in Kyrgyzstan
They do things differently in Kyrgyzstan. Like courting, for instance, which is seeing a rise in bride kidnapping. As Iva Skoch writes, what was once seen as a custom, is now being recognised as a destructive crime.
How close I came to rape
Sexual assault has been the subject of much debate recently, particularly the issues of consent and alcohol. Campbell Mattinson provides a compelling description of how close he came to committing rape on a drunken night out.
What do political movements stand for?
In the US, everyone knows what the Republicans stand for — low taxes, small government, strong defense, traditional families — but what about the Democrats? Sara Robinson investigates the importance of political branding
