They might be more familiar with harvesters than hashtags, but a growing community of Australian farmers are embracing Twitter as a tool to communicate, particularly in light to the recent floods.
January, 2011
Perception of unsafe Qantas takes another headshot
Qantas has a crisis of perception that became worse overnight when a faulty fuel valve caused one of its aged Rolls-Royce-powered Boeing 747-400s to make a precautionary landing in Fiji.
How Labor found itself in a surplus trap
Labor’s abandonment of economic reform after 1996 has left it adrift and the party’s adherence to its promised 2012-13 surplus reflects how it let its enemies define its economic credibility.
New Age? Stylish Saturday edition in ‘biggest makeover in history’
Melbourne gets a new newspaper next month — or at least a re-branded one — with Fairfax spruiking a new-look Saturday edition of The Age in “the biggest makeover in the paper’s history”.
Bartholomeusz: size matters in private equity
A major study of the returns from private equity firms over the past 40 years has produced some unusual insights into their performance, not the least of which is that the largest firms have produced the worst results.
Forget Steve Jobs, Apple’s rolling in cash
Steve Jobs disappears and Apple’s share price drops. But then the company announces its biggest problem is it can’t move iPhones fast enough, and everything looks rosy again.
Lebanon’s status still a regional conflict fault line
Lebanon’s political crisis is set to deepen as the UN prosecutor’s findings into the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri were filed on Monday, writes freelance political writer Antoun Issa.
Revisiting the unaccountable Australian corporate landscape
Many of the leading directors who signed off on some of the decade’s worst deals still remarkably remain leading corporate figures.
The perils of going beyond the information drip feed
Lunatics do get fired up by politicians and the media and public figures do receive threats from psychos out there, Stephen Rowley of the blog site Sterow discusses in the context of comments made by Neil Mitchell and re-tweeted by Victorian Planning Minister Matthew Guy.
Smart summer reading: bogans not nationally lampooned
Published by Hachette Australia
Things Bogans Like is an example of a relatively new phenomenon: the blog-to-book publishing project.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s British Isles bites: Assange to the Frontline … Labour Lord’s it over Tories … Another Ireland crisis …
Looking hale and hearty from his country estate regime, WikiLeaks star-fleet commander Julian Assange yesterday appeared at London’s Frontline Club.
Emergency response needed for more than floods
We need to leave Mother Nature alone, and stop loading the atmosphere with carbon emissions, so that more extreme climate events do not tumble down upon us with increasing frequency, writes David Spratt, co-author of the book Climate Code Red.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Floods, disaster, climate change: can we wait for proof?
Crikey readers have their say.
Who’s who to be summonsed in Hoges lawsuit
Politicians, public service mandarins and journalists will all be on the cast of Paul Hogan’s next blockbuster; his $80 million dollar lawsuit against the federal government, writes tax consultant and former ATO audit manager Chris Seage.
Morning Market Report: Markets up, Nasdaq soars to nine year high
The Nasdaq-100 climbed to the highest level since February 2001 but is still 46% below its tech boom peak in 2000.
Daily Proposition: Star gaze to shrink your ego
Feeling small can be a good thing and too often self-importance is overblown. So next time you realise your head is growing in circumference, says Emma Buckley Lennox, look at the stars. You’ll realise, in the grand scheme of things, you really aren’t that important.
Media briefs: Gold Coast Bulletin editor branches out …
Ailing Gold Coast Bulletin editor Dean Gould appears to be launching a last ditch effort to shore up his position, donning gumboots to address local volunteers bussed in to the Brisbane suburb of Goodna to help flood relief. Plus other media news of the day.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Anna Bligh’s standing continues to rise
Anna Bligh commanded immense media attention this week — and as flood waters rose across Queensland so did her standing, writes Media Monitors’ John Chalmers.
Political snippets: A hex on graduates staying at home
The Murdoch Sundays were on the track of student bludgers at the weekend — professional students who keep racking up HECS debts by taking one degree after another without ever getting a proper job to earn enough money to have to start paying back their debt.
Video of the Day: The Nic Cage song
The maniacal charm of Nicolas Cage has never seemed more … maniacal than in this outrageous toe-tappin’ mash-up music video.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Asylum seekers come south. Eighty refugees are in Darwin instead of Christmas Island after being picked up over 10 days ago. How Vodafone got hacked. Vodafone’s security and other problems in the past month or so seems to have had a large dose of self-inflicted pain by management. A friend says that every one of […]
Crikey Says: The D word
Whatever you do, don’t mention the D word. That explains this nervous talk, or non talk, around whether the projected Budget surplus should be abandoned to “pay for” the cost of recovering from the floods.
