Internal wrangling inside union super fund. Concerns are growing at senior levels inside the Finance Sector Union over goings on at Industry Fund Services, the company at the centre of a web of inter-related super organisations founded by Gary Weaven and owned by a consortium of major industry funds. Long regarded by the FSU as a “friendly” […]
January, 2011
Crikey Says: Bligh steps up
Sometimes leaders are afforded an opportunity to step up. We are witnessing Queensland Premier Anna Bligh doing just that.
Jacques Kallis is the Sobers of his generation
Jacques Kallis’ exploits over the last three weeks - or indeed over the last 15 years - must draw comparison with the best that have ever played the game., writes ’s Harsha Bhogle.
The digital (sort of) future of Leggo
At the annual Panasonic CES convention in Las Vegas, Intel brought along a prototype for a new Leggo play mat which blurs the line between real and digital, enablingly children to use physical objects to interact with virtual environments and vice versa.
Spinning a web of broadway lunacy
The much maligned broadway production Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is a staggering, mind-numbing experience in which words fail to describe how amazingly awful it is, scoffs Isaac Butler.
Arizona shooting The problem with political discourse in America
Does spirited political rhetoric in America go to far? The Arizona shooting has brought the debate about political discourse back but the problem, writes Conor Friedersdorf, is not about extreme tone - it’s about lack of substance.
Stewart on the Arizona shooting: “you can’t out-smart crazy”
Jon Stewart discusses whether provocative language incited the Arizona shooting in a nuanced The Daily Show speech, refuting simple cause and effect and imploring commentators not to dumb complex issues down.
Nasty pasty film critic brings Bening to tears
Armond White, film critic for the New York Press, is the Captain Cranky of America’s film reviewers, known as a bitter and angry writer who slams virtually everything. At a recent event White’s antics even brought Annette Bening to tears, writes John Cook.
Twitter: the company that stood up for WikiLeaks
While corporations such as PayPal, Mastercard and Amazon joined the US government’s anti-WikiLeaks campaign, one stood firm: Twitter, writes Ryan Singel.
Bob Gosford’s frog of the week: the Desert Tree Frog
A few weeks ago Bob Gosford took a night-time run out to Simpson’s Gap, a narrow gorge a few kilometres west of Alice Springs. There he found his small slimy friend of the week: the Desert Tree Frog, which typically live in the cracks and cavities of trees.
‘Events don’t unfold hour-by-hour, but minute-by-minute’: QLD floods
Crikey live blog: The number of missing people has been revised down from 76 to 51 people, although “grave concerns” are held for nine of those missing, announced Neil Roberts, QLD Emergency Services Minister. But there was one small piece of wonderful news…
Social media and health news: a big fat juicy wrap
Leaders in the health sector are gradually embracing the connectivity capabilities of social media and related technologies. Crikey’s health blog Croakey has compiled a huge wrap of recent social media and health news broadcast on Twitter.
Strip down, soap up and Tap a merry dance
What the bloody hell has Tap Dogs got to do with a drag show (Briefs), or an almost epic piece of ‘visual’ theatre (Soap)? Not that much, necessarily, but seeing them back-to-back Lloyd Bradford Syke was struck by coincidences; aesthetic and athletic.
Meet the new ally in the Retail Coalition’s war on GST exemption
The Retail Coalition that is campaigning to have the Government abolish the GST exemption on purchases made overseas has an unlikely new member – domain name reseller and web hosting firm Netregistry.
Political snippets: Bligh handling tough task well
Natural disasters such as that occurring in Queensland present a difficult task for political leaders.
Happy birthday, mum, I love you. I’ll come help clean up as soon as I can get through
Toowoomba is on a mountain, how does it flood in Toowoomba? asks Matt Granfield, of mattgranfield.com
Understanding polls: margins of error
If you follow the political news then you probably have come across discussion of poll results that are within or beyond the “margin of error”. What is it? Lecturer, political analyst and blogger David Mallard explains.
Tunisia’s unheard struggle for democracy
There’s been a lot happening in the last few days, but even even at the best of times it’s unlikely that the media would have told us much about Tunisia.
Letter from...: Letter from: Uganda, where the party goes on despite a terror threat
A specific terrorist threat had been made against Kampala for New Year’s Eve and there was an element of tension in the air, writes Rafiq Copeland in northern Africa.
‘Wag school, die young’ — beyond carrots and sticks in remote NT education
How many remote Northern Territory schools have fallen below par in terms of attendance rates? NT Education Minister Chris Burns has spoken of a “bold new strategy” to curb falling attendance.
The Chronicle gets through, as Toowoomba surveys carnage
On the first day of major flash flooding in Toowoomba the 89-year-old Toowoomba Chronicle was delivered as usual.
Maley: a futile Portuguese protest
Portuguese officials reacted frostily to press reports that Germany and France were pushing the country to seek an emergency bail-out. Portugal, they insisted, faced no such pressure, writes Karen Maley, of Business Spectator
