Just as interviewing lottery winners is not a sensible way of making informed judgements about the odds of winning, so is it unwise to use the “I’m alive” testimony of post-treatment survivors of prostate cancer as a guide to the value of the test.
November, 2010
Pobjie: Republicanism, like suicide and Peter Garrett, solves nothing
The personal lives of the Queen’s grandchildren belong to us all: in a way, today we are all engaged to Kate Middleton, writes Ben Pobjie.
As decision testing ABCC laws looms, Tribe stands tall for mates
A decision in the Ark Tribe case is expected to be handed down in Adelaide tomorrow, as a new poll shows the public supports the union’s role in protecting safety on building and construction sites. Ava Hubble reports for Crikey.
Dear Fairfax staff: McCarthy, Churchill explain the ‘transformation’
Crikey has obtained emails from Fairfax CEO Brian McCarthy and Melbourne publishing boss Don Churchill explaining the company’s structural review to staff this morning.
Where the buck starts on executive pay
Another year, another round of executive pay excess, with the same companies paying millions of dollars to the same old under-performing executives.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey apologises to The Franklin Mint
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: Markets down as US financials underperform
Financials underperformed after the SEC initiated an investigation into an insider trading network involving hedge funds.
Media briefs: DFAT on Twitter … Savva’s sexism …
Forget Grog’s Gamut, imagine an entire army of DFAT public servants blogging about foreign policy under their real names (gasp!) while entering into passionate debate with readers. Also, Niki Savva’s spray at the PM’s appearance and the Herald Sun paragraph so nice they included it twice.
Political snippets: Fine-tooth Combet reveals no mention of Cancun
We certainly cannot be accusing Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Greg Combet of making a big deal about next week’s Cancun Conference on climate change.
Video of the Day: Boys beware!
As gay marriage hits the headlines, check out this anti-homosexual propaganda from 1950s America, warning boys of the dangers in accepting lifts home from possible “sick” homosexuals. “One never knows when a homosexual is about…”
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
LNP voting rites. Old school Queensland Liberals are becoming alarmed at the growing influence of the Christian Right within the LNP. Local media has cottoned on and has run a series of stories in recent weeks about a powerful group within the parliamentary wing which dubs itself the ‘Happy Clappers’. At least one sitting MP […]
Crikey Says: Ireland a case study in lazy government
For years Ireland was sold as the exemplar of modern capitalism. Slash your corporate tax rates and watch your economy boom. More countries should be paying attention to what the Irish government had achieved, we were all told.
The other Catholic Church
There’s the Catholic Church that hogs the headlines, covers up sex-abuse claims and fights against condom-use. And then there’s the Catholic Church full of nuns caring for HIV patients in forgotten villages across the globe, writes Jo Chandler.
A tale of two travel strategies
Let Martin Lane tell you a tale of two travel brands, of holiday giants who had their heyday in the 1960s, before air travel was widely affordable, and how they coped in a low-cost budget airline world.
Dreams didn’t come true at ACMI’s Disney exhibition
New Disney exhibition Dreams Come True at Melbourne’s ACMI centre boasts more than a splash of great artwork but its official association with the Big Mouse inevitably restricts challenging discussions about artistic strengths and weaknesses, writes Stephen Rowley.
climate change Ask a climate scientist: the Tamas edition
Got a question about climate science? We’re getting climate scientists from the American Geophysical Union to answer them for you, with three questions from well-known Crikey climate sceptic commenter Tamas Calderwood.
The attacks on Gillard’s gender continue
A scathing article on PM Gillard by Nikki Savva in today’s Oz is apparently not-at-all-gendered. Oh, because so many male politicians described as “bitchy”, are criticised for their hairdressing decisions and get told that “a bit of exercise wouldn’t go astray”? asks Jeremy Sear.
language Why Melburnians speak funny
A curious transformation is happening to Victoria’s vowels, and it’s not going unnoticed. For a while now, many Victorians have been confusing “el” sounds with “al” sounds, so that celery sounds like salary, pellet like palate and telly like tally, explains Crikey’s Fully Sic. language blog.
theatre reviews Not in a Million Years, CarriageWorks Sydney
Director Kate Champion’s new production from dance theatre studio Force Majeure focuses on a set of borderline superhuman experiences. It has a haunting and magical ambiance, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
hung parliament How Australia made a hung parliament work
There isn’t a whole lot of historical precedence for Australian federal governments coping with a hung parliament, but there certainly is amongst the states. Anne Twomey takes a fascinating look back at the 1910 NSW Labor government.
Is Facebook a threat to the future of the WWW?
One of the internet’s founding fathers, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has rang alarm bells about the future of Facebook in a recently published essay - describing its “silo” approach as something that threatens to erode the principles on which the web was created.
Australian Super’s unethical ethics
Earlier this year Australian Super opened the doors to criticism about the Fund’s ethics but removing…its ethical exclusion policy. There are some indications it has engaged with the armaments industry and it doesn’t end there, writes Nicholas Taylor.
