Why the ‘greed is good’ mantra of the English Premier League fails us allFarcical financial situations at Liverpool and Portsmouth, not to mention the ticking financial time-bombs of several other top flight teams, are illustrating what is wrong with Britain’s top flight football competition.
October, 2010
The band’s back together for Howard’s last lap
It was fabulous to see Peter Reith emerge yesterday from whatever dark cupboard he’s been hiding in since 2001 to come out and call for a new IR reform agenda. Indeed, the whole band was back together for John Howard’s book launch, says Margot Saville.
CBA’s power play on the Hazelwood lemon
The inference of CBA’s assessment is that the total value of the asset bought for $2.35 billion in 1996 is now worth $50 million, writes Giles Parkinson of Climate Spectator.
CPI figures on the economy: how sweet it is
With growth running at more than 3%, the terms of trade at record levels, unemployment falling, the Australian economy remains in the sweetest of sweet spots for the moment with inflation under control and trending lower.
Vic election: health could hurt Labor in the bush, says poll
Victorian voters in rural and regional electorates say health services and hospitals are a key concern in the lead-up to next month’s state election, exclusive research commissioned for Crikey has revealed.
MDB stakeholders call for RSPT-style campaign against government
The government faces another well-funded campaign against its policies, this time on water.
Xenophobia, incompetence and foreign investment wars
Australia’s approach to foreign investment remains as confused as ever. But the mishandling of the ASX-SGX merger isn’t going to help, write Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer.
Shareholders take a swing at Transurban, Billabong
Under-performing CEOs can be safe in the knowledge, it seems, that shareholder returns will remain very much a secondary consideration when it comes to executive pay.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s mid-terms: the depthlessness of Palin, and the town Disney built
Marshalled against the portentous, and sometimes vacuous, appeal to depth made by Obama, Palin deploys the same tone of high-school, the idea that none of this study stuff matters, that it is all illusion.
The class of 2010: Wyatt and his fellow MP newbies speak out
More new MPs rose in parliament on Monday and again yesterday to deliver their defining maiden speeches, including the youngest-ever federal parliamentarian in Liberal newbie Wyatt Roy. In our efforts to get to know the class of 2010, Crikey captures the highlights…
Possum: Bligh looking to remove optional preferential voting
There is no doubt at all that optional preferential voting existing at the state level increases the size of the informal vote at the federal election in those states.
Australia’s marine safety radio services disjointed, dysfunctional
We effectively have a foreign station providing Australia’s marine radio distress and safety watch … an amazing situation for a developed nation, writes an industry insider.
Tourism Australia ignoring indigenous assets with ‘ADHD approach’
One of the world’s foremost travel entrepreneurs has hit out at Tourism Australia for its erratic marketing strategy, calling on tourism bosses to exploit our indigenous history to attract more visitors, write Amber Jamieson and Jason Whittaker.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Illegal backdoor migration
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: Markets up, Dow finishes in the black
A quiet session.
Daily Proposition: Daily Proposition: check out some legal street art
If there ever was a real danger to street art, it’s years and miles away from the toothsome, cloistered inner-north drags of Melbourne. Robert Lukins finds some legal graffiti of real merit in Fitzroy.
Media briefs: The Age’s downsizing … circulation pressure mounts …
The Age of getting smaller and smaller … pressure mounts on the Audit Bureau of Circulations … the Tocumwal “experience” … Google has cash for new media innovators …
Why the independence of the Murray Darling Basin Authority matters
With increasing diversions of fresh water, saltwater is coming further into the Guippsland lakes system and pollution events such as algal blooms have become increasingly frequent, writes Lionel Elmore.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: It was Joe Hockey’s week
Well if Joe Hockey’s main intention was to lift his profile, it’s worked
Political snippets: Disappointment abounds at CPI’s small rise
The consumer price index figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed Australia does not yet have an inflationary problem
Video of the Day: Julian Assange on the Larry King Show
A conversation between talk show host Larry King and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange got a tad … well, tense when King broached the subject of an interview in which Assange walked off after being quizzed about his personal affairs. And it got plain weird when a technical glitch made it look like Assange may have […]
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Foreign shuffle at Fairfax. Informed sources inside Fairfax say European correspondent Paola Totaro and India-based South Asia reporter Matt Wade will soon return home with the company’s opaque succession program dictating that the positions be advertised internally, despite those next in line being decided by management well in advance. The Fin goes bush on QR. […]
