Millions of dollars in payments to financial planners show that attempts to self regulate have failed, writes George Lekakis of the Eureka Report.
November, 2010
A guide to seeing-eye dog heroes
The practice of training dogs to act as blind people’s surrogate eyes has a long anecdotal history.
Come in Spinner: Come in Spinner: PR, David Jones and ethics
Discussions of PR ethics often suffer from conceptual confusion — about the nature of ethical challenges and the way to deal with them.
Letters from detention: in the test match of life, Howard’s the batsman
The sporting dreams of teenage boys can often be fairly predictable. But what about the dreams of Hazara boys awaiting their application for asylum? In letters to Crikey, they still aspire to sporting glory, but it’s John Howard, not a sporting rival, that they dream of beating.
The Brumby Dump: rural health services struggling, hospital ‘buggered’
The annual reports of regional hospitals suggests that while the government made it a headline issue last Budget, all is not well in the rural health-care system, writes Swinburne’s B>BKat Woskett with Madeleine Kazda, Jade Peters, Stephanie Dickson and Ryan Gardiner.
Video of the Day: Midterms media mash-up
Get up to speed with the best and worst of US mid-terms media coverage with this mash-up clip that condenses hours and hours of numbers crunching and political commentary into five snappy minutes. The midterms media mash-up can be viewed here.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The good and the bad of our banks
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: Markets up, good news everywhere
The Dow climbed to a new two-year high.
Media briefs: Media briefs: News’ first quarter … croc watch … the Gazette’s victory lap …
News Limited likes to preach transparency, but its first-quarter financial report has slashed the already limited amount of information about the performance of its Australian newspapers. Plus, the Press Council adjudicates, Croc Watch and the Port Douglas and Mossman Gazette’s victory lap.
Political snippets: The creeping margin increase
Who said we were the lucky country that escaped the impact of the global financial crisis? Australians with a mortgage are clearly paying a high price for its impact!
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Walters just taking next cab on rank. There used to be (and maybe still is) a group called ‘Lawyers for Labor’ — presumably members of the legal profession who identified with the Labor Party. It would make an interesting exercise to check out what kind of clients such Labor-leaning lawyers took on board as part of their […]
Crikey Says: Crikey says: is it about foreign policy or is it about ego?
The abuse has been coming thick and fast at Julia Gillard for her Asian tour.
Stutchbury: Why nobody picked the rate rise
Before heaping blame on the RBA’s rate rise people need to remember that Australia’s economic circumstances are rapidly changing. Asian demand for our iron ore will drive a massive mining boom and the RBA is determined to keep inflation under control, writes Michael Stutchbury.
NT education policy is a giant croc
Both state and federal governments are launching all kinds of madcap schemes to lure kids back to school in the NT. Hopefully this will lead to the beginning of the end for its “magic realist” education policy, writes Piers Kelly.
Video 
Tim Burton remakes Weekend at Bernie’s
Ever wondered what the dopey 80’s comedy Weekend at Bernie’s would look like if Tim Burton remade it? No, neither have we, but Babelgum Comedy have put together a pretty convincing fake trailer.
The Daily Telegraph spruiks to suckers
The Daily Telegraph has published a “story” about a new gadget that is an outrageous piece of advertorial guff thinly - very thinly - disguised as journalism. The Tele is treating its readers like suckers, writes Jeremy Sear.
Is the Harry Potter franchise killing India’s owls?
BBC South Asia broke a story about an alarming connection between the Harry Potter franchise and the trade in wild birds – particularly owls in India. The truth isn’t crystal clear but it appears that India’s owls are in serious trouble, writes Bob Gosford.
Has Australia forgotten how to win?
What has happened to the Australian cricketing juggernaut? They are not playing bad cricket, but they’ve lost the ability to close out games, writes The Guardian’s Mike Selvey.
Vale Andy Irons
The sport of surfing is poorer after losing one of the greatest the sport has ever known.
Meet America’s So You Think
As Australia’s racing season comes to an end — and the people’s champion So You Think is on-sold to an Irish stable never to be seen on these shores again, meet AMerican horse Zenyatta. She is, quite possibly, the greatest female racehorse of all-time, an undefeated champion who has won all 19 races she’s entered.
How many jihads does it take to get banned on YouTube?
YouTube is known for its liberal attitudes towards censoring content, but after ongoing pressure from American and British officials a selection of radical sermons from an American-born Muslim have been removed from the site, reports Robert Mackey.
My Cup Of Tea: Lord of the ka-ching: why governments prop up the film industry
The cross-Tasman panic over The Hobbit underlines the increasingly ruthless way in which Hollywood studios play international locations off against one another, writes Ben Eltham.
