The latest idiotic noisemaking from Tony Abbott has the alternative PM misrepresenting the words of Professor Tim Flannery. Will the media call him on it? asks Jeremy Sear.
March, 2011
NRL 
Game-in-a-box: Sea Eagles spear Knights
In this week’s Game-in-a-box, Pat Byrne covers the Newcastle Knights vs the Manly Sea Eagles.
travel The hypnotic nature of south west India
Crikey reader Venise Alstergren escaped the daily grind by jetting off to south west India to spend three glorious months exploring. Destinations include Kerala, the first state in the world to democratically elect a communist government.
The cost of ABC24 (part one)
Crikey media blogger Margaret Simons is pursuing a freedom of information request to find out how much ABC24 costs — including the total price of ABC’s Continuous News Centre and where budget cuts to fund ABC24 were made. Here is part one.
Essential: 52-48 to Coalition
For the second week in a row Essential Research has Labor clawing back a point on two-party preferred, from 53-47 to 52-48, with the primary vote remaining largely unchanged, writes William Bowe.
Newspoll quarterly
breakdown
The Australian has published its quarterly geographic and demographic breakdowns of federal polling data, which has Labor on 34 percent of the primary vote, the Coalition on 42 and the Greens on 13, writes William Bowe.
Entrepreneurs need to take advantage of the rising buck
The local currency is nearing 29 yeah highs. This poses significant challenges, but there are ways entrepreneurs can take advantage of the strong dollar. James Thomson explains.
theatre reviews Casanova — he’s back, as romantic as ever
Does the world need another Casanova? A stage adaptation of a film adaptation, no less? Probably not, but Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre offers a winning cast and a romantic tale, says Lloyd Bradford Syke.
podcast A chat with comedian Fiona Scott-Norman
Matt Smith talks with comedian Fiona Scott-Norman, who explains how disco can save the world and tries to convince him there’s still a reason to get down and boogie.
Bolt’s day in court as racial villification case kicks off
You know something’s up when Herald Sun supremo Phil Gardner decides to leave the plush Herald and Weekly Times building to attend a court case for one of his top scribes. He found Andrew Bolt getting assailed over his views on Aboriginality.
Dictator Watch: Syria came to the abyss and won’t take the next step
“Syrians came up to the abyss and looked over the edge and decided not to take the next step,” says a top US expert on Syria, “And that next step would have been very bloody.”
Essential: we still don’t like a carbon price but don’t want an early election
There’s been no increase in support for a carbon pricing scheme. But voters appear uninterested in an early election on the issue, according to Essential.
Digital media convergence: where legal and ethical lines blur, too
Once upon a time reporters gained stories through their contacts, by wearing out shoe leather or burning up the telephone lines. These days, they are just as likely to suck the content off social media, which blurs regulatory and ethical lines.
Political snippets: Abbott should learn from O’Farrell’s approach
When a government is really bad it does not need an Opposition Leader to tell the people. They know it.
Video of the Day: Behind the scenes of Old Spice
Ever wondered how the special effects in Old Spice commercials were created? This behind the scenes vid spotlights some of the elaborate sets and choreography required.
Crikey Says: Symmetry
Denial: “a psychological defense mechanism in which confrontation with a personal problem or with reality is avoided by denying the existence of the problem or reality”. Or, look to outgoing NSW Labor MP and minister Joe Tripodi.
The Bishop’s Gambit: cutting and pasting denialist errors
A group of bloggers has again sprung Julie Bishop using material from other sources - including some howling errors.
Morning Market Report: Aussie dollar hits new high
The Aussie dollar is at 102.53c and it hit a new high over the weekend of 102.94c.
NSW Greens: not easy being green, as high hopes fizzle
It’s not only NSW Labor with some serious soul searching to do. Like at the Victorian election last November, expectations of a Greenslide in NSW did not eventuate. So what went wrong?
Media briefs: Ron and James’ jig … moderator miss … Hamish and Andy cash in …
Come on Crikey readers. Tell us what James Packer and Ron Walker were laughing about as they boogied it up at the Australian Grand Prix this weekend. Surely it wasn’t really because Packer made a donation to Japan…?
