With Muammar Gaddafi holding onto power, rumours abound he’s hired mercenary fighters in his battle for Libya. It’s fuelling race baiting in the Middle East, says Clair MacDougall in Ghana.
March, 2011
NSW election: Chillin’ with Clover (and her choker)
The progressive inner-city seat of Sydney would be a gimme for The Greens on March 26 were it not for the one-woman political machine that is Clover Moore.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Beware the brands!
Crikey readers have their say.
A film on life on the way down
Comparisons between Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air (2009) and writer/director John Wells’ The Company Men are inevitable. Both revolve around the dark side of corporate life, where desperate people lose their jobs and their livelihoods, but take starkly different approaches: the former a droll dramedy following a man who fires people for a living and […]
Media briefs: Ten, Seven in legal stoush …. tabloid journo tell-all …
Hang Ten: Warburton might wait … Journo admits: I made it up … Facebook makes six people billionaires. …
Political snippets: Familiarity brings boredom if not contempt
There’s nothing surprising really ab0ut South Australian Premier Mike Rann suffering another decline in his popularity rating.
Video of the Day: Greedy teachers and poor Wall St traders
So those who earn over US$250,000 a year aren’t rich, but teachers who earn just $50,000 are overpaid? Jon Stewart compares the hypocrisy of news commentators.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Personal emails for public MPs. Some NSW Nationals MPs seem not to have got the message that parliamentary resources aren’t to be used for election campaigning. The NSWEC website reveals some MPs have used their parliamentary email addresses as public contact points for their candidacy on their nomination forms for this month’s election… Old boy […]
Crikey Says: The conga line to Afghanistan
The Prime Minister’s address earlier today to a joint meeting of the US Congress evidently went down well with the Washington elite.
Blaming the 11-year-old rape victim
A NY Times article about the tragic story of an 11-year-old girl being gang-raped by up to 28 men has come under fire due to its choice of quotes attempting to elicit sympathy for the accused and portraying the girl as ‘asking for it’.
As Middle East moves ahead, are women getting left behind?
Women in Egypt organised a march for equality this week that resulted in a violent clash with a male crowd. As Middle Eastern countries fight against oppression, there’s a growing concern that democracy might not include women’s rights.
The end of Discovery
After 27 years of being the workhouse of NASA’s shuttle fleet, the Discovery landed from its final mission yesterday. Peter Spotts looks back at the shuttle that brought the Hubble Telescope into being and delivered astronauts to space stations for decades.
film reviews 
The Company Men: more than does the job
Based in America in 2010, The Company Men is a GFC set drama about three men who face the boot at work. Comparisons with Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air and its dark-side-of-corporate-life are inevitable, writes Luke Buckmaster.
Comparison is Violence
Dressed in sequinned and chintzy drag Taylor Mac attacks the songs in his first unoriginal covers homage to musos including David Bowie and Tiny Tim. His Sydney show was genius, writes Lloyd Bradford Syke.
How Melbourne Airport fails its city
Melbourne is a great place to visit, and it is disappointing to be shown proof of how it is being failed by its main airport at Tullamarine. A NZ reader wrote in to Ben Sandilands about the horrors of Melbourne Airport.
The Opposition says
Seriously, they might as well rename the ABC News “The Opposition Says”, since nowadays it seems to be their default method of opening any story about Australian politics, argues Jeremy Sear,
Newspoll: 56-44 to Liberal in SA
Newspoll has published its first poll of state voting intention in South Australia since Labor’s lucky escape at last year’s election. After limping to a majority at the election, the poll now finds Labor trailing 56-44, reports William Bowe.
NSW election minus 16 days
William Bowe discusses the latest happenings from the slow-motion train wreck that is the New South Wales state election campaign, including the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Liberals to make inroads in the Newcastle/Hunter region.
Political snippets: NSW Labor deluded and on the nose
They really know how to delude themselves in the New South Wales Labor Party.
‘It’s about choice, not numbers’: Crikey readers on feminism
Yesterday, on the International Women’s Day Centenary, Crikey asked readers to reflect on feminism’s role in the twenty-first century. The response was, in one sense, heartening, writes Grace Jennings-Edquist.
Just Chew It: 4/5 athletes don’t like sport spruiking junk food
New research claims the vast majority of Australian elite athletes are unhappy about sports stars promoting junk food and alcohol. And most learn to live without it.
