It’s peculiar that the nation’s treasurer is obsessed with trying to organise more and cheaper credit even as his central banks tries to do the opposite.
December, 2010
Come in Spinner: Bah humbug to the season
If there is anything that arguably demonstrates that the PR stereotype has some validity it is the festive season in general and Christmas in particular.
Cancun: the glass-half-full outlook
Cancun will restore confidence among governments and business that action is going to occur, writes Michael Jacobs, and that makes progress more likely.
Fool Britannia: palace throws in the tea towel on Wills-Kate wedding
Buckingham Palace authorities have refused to endorse any tea towels commemorating Prince William’s forthcoming marriage to Kate Middleton.
Daily Proposition: Re-organise your wardrobe
The average person, Caroline Zielinski asserts, probably does not have the most organised closet. Time for some Summer cleaning…
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: WikiLeaks ad infinitum
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: Markets down on mixed US data
Wall Street closed down 19 overnight after being up as much as 43 early in the session.
Media briefs: Time comes for Mark … talkback gold … Fox News’ denialism …
In today’s Media Briefs: Mark Zuckerberg named TIME’s person of the year, the crazies call 3AW in Melbourne, Jeff Kennett annoucnes his top seven events of 2010 and more…
Political snippets: Why were ASIO interested in me, Richard Farmer?
An old friend from my university days has kindly sent me a page from an ASIO document he received after making a freedom-of-information request about himself and I am puzzled to find a reference to myself in it.
Video of the Day: The topless Vatican dancers
This is a has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed video. Watch a recent performance at the Vatican, where male dancers in tight white pants take off their jackets and perform an acrobatic routine topless to Pope Benedict XVI. The nuns wave excitedly and take photos.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Was Aunty missing in action? “ABC insiders” write: One of Australia’s great tragedies has been unfolding on Christmas Island. Dramatic footage and still pictures are playing out on the world’s media; shell-shocked eyewitnesses telling their stories across radio, TV and online. So what was ABC News 24 showing? A lengthy and whimsically wry feature story on a […]
Jack Marx: Cruelty doesn’t mind kindness, just cowardice
A wonderful rant by Jack Marx against his fellow News Ltd stable mates and their reactions to the Christmas Island boat crash. “Iron fists in velvet gloves,” declares Marx, against those who claim compassion while preaching cruelty.
Who wins the battle between ABC News 24 and Sky?
ABC News 24 did their viewers a disservice by running repurposed content instead of the significant Christmas Island boat crash yesterday. But was it worthy of a beat-up in The Australian today? Dan Barrett remains convinced.
Time’s Person of the Year: Mark Zuckerberg
A perhaps unlikely pick for the annual Person of the Year by Time magazine, but Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg created a social network so large that if it was a country, it would be the world’s third largest. And he’s only 26.
WikiLeaks cable 1074
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WikiLeaks cable 186376
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WikiLeaks cable 80743
80743 10/5/2006 7:28 06CANBERRA1574 Embassy Canberra CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN VZCZCXRO0361PP RUEHPBDE RUEHBY #1574/01 2780728ZNY CCCCC ZZHP 050728Z OCT 06FM AMEMBASSY CANBERRATO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5872INFO RUEHPB/AMEMBASSY PORT MORESBY PRIORITY 1652RUEHWL/AMEMBASSY WELLINGTON PRIORITY 4760RUEHBN/AMCONSUL MELBOURNE PRIORITY 3191RUEHBAD/AMCONSUL PERTH PRIORITY 1742RUEHDN/AMCONSUL SYDNEY PRIORITY 1166RHEHNSC/NSC WASHINGTON DC PRIORITYRHHMUNA/CDR USPACOM HONOLULU HI PRIORITY C O N F I D E N […]
Burton’s Superman: glimpses of what was never to be
A couple of months ago photographs emerged of a prototype of a new Superman suit to be used in director Tim Burton’s abandoned project, Superman Lives. Now a video has surfaced and the flash, colourful revisionist outfit looks kind of…goofy.
Twitter 
The most influential tweets of 2010
No festive season is complete without a smattering of “best of the year” lists and this one from Twitter compiles the ten most powerful tweets of the year. Top Twitter accounts include BP, the White House and Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa.
The Ashes Open Thread: Perth Day 1
Today, the Third Test begins in Perth — at the hallowed WACA Ground — and make no mistake; this is it. If Australia puts in a pathetic performance it’s over and England retain the Ashes, writes Leigh Josey.
Marr: The killer cliffs of Christmas Island
It’s incredible that this boat loaded with asylum seekers was able to get those to shore without being stopped. Why was this boat allowed to get so close to those cliffs? It’s reminiscent of the SIEV X, says David Marr, but this time there are photos and video.
