Ross Gaunaut laid out an updated case for action on climate change in his 2010 Cunningham Lecture speech at the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia last night — read the full speech on Crikey’s environmental blog Rooted. He concluded his remarks with the following plea … What if the mainstream science is right? What if the science […]
November, 2010
The Brumby Dump: think you’ll rest in peace? You’ll lose the plot
Springvale Botanical Cemetery in Melbourne is melting down crematorium memorials for people who died as recently as 13 years ago, writes Swinburne journalism student Aliyah Stotyn.
Fairfax plans fundamental shift from print future
Fairfax’s effort for the next few years will be directed towards winding down print and scaling up the effort to get people to pay for content delivered to mobile devices.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The dearth and decline of innovation
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: US Dollar keeps rising, gold at new high
The US dollar rose for the third day.
Media briefs: Media briefs: Fairfax in job ads slump … ‘dissidents’ at Ten … Shirky on The Times …
Net ads leave Fairfax in slums. The repercussions of Fairfax’s failure to continue dominating job advertising and grab a foothold of the net jobs area has been illustrated in an ANZ report released this week. The release shows the share of job ads held by newspapers continues to fall, with October laying claim to the […]
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Joel Monaghan: a scandal politics can’t even replicate
Australian politics seems to return to some kind of normalcy — money, sport and media moguls dominating news coverage.
Political snippets: The bank share gets bigger
The banks’ share of the Australian finance market just keeps getting bigger
Video of the Day: Video of the Day: collapsing human towers
The only thing better than watching a group of people form human towers is watching them topple to the ground, right? It happens every two years at the Casteller festival in Spain, where participants wear helmets for a reason. Casteller from Mike Randolph on Vimeo.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Bligh’s cutting dissenters. Interesting moves in the Queensland ALP. Premier Anna Bligh’s office is lobbying that those who opposed the privatisation of asset sales be knocked off the Left executive and replaced by comrades more supportive of the premier’s line. That should shore up her position nicely, as the Right and old guard are locked […]
Crikey Says: Crikey says: Gillard finally starts talking about the vision thing
Karl Bitar may be in total denial, but Julia Gillard’s speech in Adelaide yesterday served as a sign the prime minister and her team have finally worked out that they need to start explaining to voters exactly what they want to do in power.
Garnaut: what if mainstream science is right?
Ross Gaunaut laid out an updated case for action on climate change in his 2010 Cunningham Lecture speech at the Academy of the Social Sciences this week. Read the speech on Crikey’s environmental blog Rooted.
How IT is driving South Korea’s economy
South Korea is constructing the world’s largest online city - Songdo - which it hopes will push the country to the forefront of knowledge intensive industries, writes Clancy Yeates.
Memo to Hollywood: don’t remake Thriller. Ever.
The recent announcement that This Is It director Kenny Ortega plans to remake Michael Jackson’s iconic Thriller music video into a feature length movie is very ominous news. Don’t do it, says Stuart Heritage.
Winter’s Bone and the arrival of a new cinema heroine
Dark, forbidding and with an unrelenting story, there are nevertheless many good reasons to see Winter’s Bone — first and foremost the arrival of a new cinema heroine in the character of Ree Dolly, writes W H Chong.
Wanna become a YouTube sensation?
Most people who “go viral” and become YouTube celebrities do so mostly by fluke. But those eager to join the clique of internet sensations might want to follow this “how to” guide by Zachary Sniderman.
From by-the-numbers to by-the-balls: Noriko Ham’s exciting economics
Economics isn’t generally regarded as the most interesting of subjects, and in Japan it’s not the happiest either. But a new columnist to The Japan Times has managed to engage readers by drawing inspiration from - of all places - the books of Stephen King.
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21 of the best/worst DVD bootleg covers
Ever had a giggle at a dodgy DVD bootleg cover? Here are 21 of the very best/worst.
film reviews Saw 3D — seen, sawn, soon forgotten
Saw 3D - or Saw VII without the glasses – arrives with the proclamation that this is “the final chapter” but this grisly jet-black film franchise will be back, no doubt about it, writes Luke Buckmaster.
We think your theatre is great … we have to shut it down
Events leading up to the closure of new writer’s theatre MKA Richmond demonstrates the pitfalls of engaging in squabbles with petty officials over ambiguous building and planning laws, writes Andrew Fuhrmann.
Morning Media Mauling: Hot cyclops martians … new lovers for Tiger Woods …
In today’s Morning Media Morning a man is abducted by smoking hot cyclops martians, The Gold Coast Bulletin suggests new lovers for Tiger Woods and The Geelong Advertiser provides mixed messages on food and obesity.
