The next six weeks represent a period of downtime as we wait and see whether TV networks will deliver an exciting new year schedule. This week’s Televised Revolution Podcast discusses the 2011 ABC slate, the farewell of Kerry O’Brien as the anchor of The 7:30 Report and the launch of OneHD.com.au.
December, 2010
How politically pure are those Swedes?
We lefties have a predisposition to believe in those Swedes. We tend to see them as showing the way towards capitalism with a social conscience. Yet we shouldn’t be so surprised at the fears of Julian Assange’s Swedish lawyer coming true, says Richard Farmer.
climate change Cancun climate talks hang in the balance
The high-level sessions of the UN climate talks in Cancun are now well under way. In the hallways camera crews and reporters linger waiting to swarm around key players in the talks as they emerge from meetings, reports Phillip Ireland.
Welcome to the internet wars
The attacks on WikiLeaks have sparked a war on the internet and it has immediately exposed has fragile key systems can be.
WikiLeaks cable: Shell staff posted throughout Nigerian government
Shell Australia chairman Ann Pickard once claimed to the US government that the oil giant had staff posted throughout Nigerian government ministries, ensuring they could keeping tabs on regulation in the oil-rich nation, a cable released by WikiLeaks says today.
Cable Crunch: climate change and the ye olde files
The Crikey team are busy picking through the WikiLeaks cables available — — currently 1208 have been released from an estimated 250,000 — categorising them into different subjects and grabbing the most potent highlights from each. This is just the first lot, expect cables discussing press freedom, foreign leaders, drug wars and the GFC to roll out in the coming days.
Assange accuser may have ceased co-operating
Anna Ardin, one of the two complainants in the rape and sexual assault case against WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange, has left Sweden, and may have ceased actively co-operating with the Swedish prosecution service and her own lawyer, sources in Sweden told Crikey today.
A new editor for Meanjin, and ‘all is well’ at MUP
Yesterday’s announcement that newly-appointed Melbourne University Press associate editor Sally Heath will succeed Sophie Cunningham as editor of Meanjin has set the literary-world aflutter.
The Bush Administration — desperate to convince on climate
The Bush Administration was desperate to “sensitise” European leaders to its view that technologies such as carbon capture and storage and nuclear power were the way to handle climate change.
She didn’t even wave: papers lovelorn over Oprah’s flying visit
You may have heard Oprah’s in town. But newspaper editors felt jilted — the talk show queen wasn’t coming to town, despite all the lovelorn pleading.
Cancun Calling: couple of all-nighters in final countdown
The parties have until Friday morning to agree on negotiations. Experienced negotiators say there is a fat chance of that, writes Giles Parkinson of Climate Spectator, from Cancun, Mexico.
Job figures show that more are confident in the workforce
Something is not adding up in Australia, or Australians are exhibiting behavourial patterns never seen before.
WikiLeaks update: ‘thin-skinned’ Mbeki and hostages in Colombia
CABLECODE#: 04BOGOTA8900 2004-09-02 11:11 US hostage status: 18 months in FARC captivity A new diplomatic cable released today shows the US government had no leads on where three American military contractors were being held after being kidnapped by the notorious narco-terrorist group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) 18 months after their single-engine Cessna crashed in the Colombian […]
Herald Sun’s golliwog doll cue: credibility has run its race
Did anyone at the Herald Sun stop and think last night before putting a golliwog doll next to Oprah Winfrey on the front page of today’s paper?
Eva Cox: put the big society (back) on the agenda
Can we retrieve and renew the idea that we live in a society, and it’s the qualities of how we live with each other than makes life good?
Daily Proposition: Beg for last-minute Meredith Music Festival tix
20 years later, and the annual Meredith Music festival is world renowned as one of, if not the, best music festivals in Australia. What’s its secret? Why does it engender such loyalty and love from patrons?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The tangled web that is WikiLeaks
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: Market Reports up, gold has big fall
Gold had its biggest fall in 3 weeks — down $25.80.
Mental health behind bars (part two): why women prisoners are set up to fail
Incidents of mental illness in our prison system are disproportionately high — particularly among female inmates. In part two of a special report into the NSW female prison population, Inga Ting examines how they find themselves behind bars and why they are disadvantaged while they are there…
Come in Spinner: Year-end leadership, reform agenda round-ups
As the annual political round-ups start to roll out it is fascinating to watch how they are all obsessed with leadership and activity.
Media briefs: Posetti to fight defo claim … greenies head for Walkleys … Fairfax staff walk …
Senior editorial staff from Fairfax’s Community Network division have walked … The Australian’s James Massola attacks the author of Fairfax’s WikiLeaks scoops …
Political snippets: Women keep going working
The steady growth in the number of women participating in the workforce continues.
Video of the Day: All you need to know about despotism
This 1946 short documentary from Encyclopedia Brittanica Films provides easy and concise instructions on how you can gauge the level of prevalence despotism has in your community.
