The new MyHospitals website – which enables us to compare waiting times for elective surgery and emergency department care at public and some private hospitals– has drawn a somewhat mixed review. Croakey quizzed a range of health experts on their views.
December, 2010
Mark Zuckerberg’s thoughts on WikiLeaks
TIME Magazine editors have given Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg their coveted Person of the Year award despite Zuckerberg placing 10th in the readers’ vote. What has Zuckerberg told TIME about WikiLeaks? Not a great deal, writes Marshall Kirkpatrick.
Asylum seeker boat crash at Christmas Island
Crikey media wrap: A boat carrying up to 100 asylum seekers crashed into cliffs at Christmas Island in terrible weather yesterday, killing 28 people, including women and children. It’s a heartbreaking tale, with Christmas Island locals providing distressing first-person accounts.
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The light of St Jean de Luz
St Jean de Luz is a port town in the Pays Basque in the far south of France. The town sits at the mouth of the river Nivelle, and has a long seafaring history. Nicola Heath arrived at the same time as a blustery squall.
asylum seekers Julia Gillard in damage control
There is nothing that Julia Gillard personally can do to make the tragic situation on the shores of Christmas Island any better. Her task is simply to try and ensure that yesterday’s deaths do not revive the issue of boat people in a way that seriously damages her government, writes Richard Farmer.
Reviewing diversity in a converging media
If you were starting from scratch in regulating media ownership, what would you count as influential?
Fairfax to release WikiLeaks cables this afternoon
Fairfax Media struck a deal with WikiLeaks to simultaneously publish the cables it has relied upon for its series of impressive scoops by Phillip Dorling, but according to insiders, the controversial whistleblower website is yet to uphold its end of the bargain.
Qantas, Rolls-Royce getting close to an agreement
Engine maker Rolls-Royce and Qantas are getting closer to agreeing that the airline can resume flights to Los Angeles using the giant Airbus A380 airliner, but the exact date remains elusive.
Richardson: big Ted takes a dangerous prize
For better or worse, Victoria’s new government has the chance to do what it wants.
Rundle: cue the circus and the end of WikiLeaks as we know it
Yesterday was the day when the trials of Julian Assange, and possibly WikiLeaks, became something of a circus.
Conroy’s convergence review must surrender control
The challenge for the government’s review of convergence is to let go of the idea that we can control the media like we could before digital.
WikiLeaks update: King’s GFC bailout … Ireland a ‘bit optimistic’ about economy …
Banking crisis now one of solvency not liquidity, says Bank of England governor … U/S Jeffery and A/S O’Brien press UK on Iranian banks … the bank guarantee: an Irish solution to an Irish problem … Spanish ambassador on Western Sahara, migration, Islamists … Pope Benedict’s visit to Sao Paulo …
Crikey Clarifier: Can Silvio Berlusconi survive as Italian PM?
Noted Italian political expert Gaetano Rando describes the lawmaking of his homeland as “fairly fluid”. So much so it almost washed the prime minister Silvio Berlusconi out of office overnight amid rising anger over the rule of the very-rich Lothario. Crikey seeks clarification.
Oprah’s been and gone but diamonds are forever
Even though she isn’t a diehard fan, Sarah Baker has plenty of respect … and some sparkles … to remind her of what she calls a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Assange unlikely to flee in Wonder Woman’s jet
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange was granted bail in a London court yesterday and expected to be free by this morning — only to see the Swedish prosecutor’s office exercise its right to appeal, leaving Assange behind bars for another 48 hours.
Kohler: welcome to economic Cold War
After two decades of selling to, and lending to, the United States, China is now its largest creditor and largest supplier of outsourced labour.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: WikiLeaks drives Rudd to the top of the press coverage
WikiLeaks gets the water loving Rudd-duck back to number one, with plenty of TV and radio coverage.
Daily Proposition: Invest in a singer on the rise
If there was a futures market in musicians, Emma Dean’s a commodity you’d want to buy long. Jim Forbes discovers a singer-songwriter of warmth, humour and melancholy.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Has Rudd gone rogue?
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: Wall Street reaches two year high
Wall Street closed up 48 overnight at 11,477 — its highest level since September 2008.
Media briefs: W-O-eful Oprah coverage … kid-sized paywall
New Matilda saved! Sort of. With 10 minutes to go and $25,000 remaining in the New Matilda subscriberthon, things were looking a little desperate for the opinion and analysis website. Plus, Oprah-fever and other media tidbits of the day.
Political snippets: So where was Little Richard?
A sunny Sydney. That beautiful harbour as the backdrop. A song about prayer to close the program. But why oh why this Bon Jovi fellow?
Video of the Day: UK schoolboy sticks it to the Man
Fifteen-year-old Barnaby Raine, a demonstrator in the London student protests gives a brilliant speech about political activism . “This was meant to be the generation that never thought of anything bigger than our Facebook profiles and our TV screens … I think now that claim is quite ridiculous.”
