It was downhill from 7pm on all networks.
April, 2011
Media briefs: New SBS boss … the Scream spoiler …
SBS goes to ABC for its new boss, Fairfax film critic Jim Schembri spoils the ending of Scream 4 — then denies it — and other media news.
Political snippets: Does Wilkie really deserve this?
For the life of me I cannot understand what the Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has done to deserve blanket coverage of his Duntroon day.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Disappearing mobile phone boss. The reason Matthew Donnellan, Allphones CEO, was fired yesterday? External legal advice, apparently. He remains a shareholder. Islamophobic threats remain online. While Barry O’Farrell threatens to sack Marrickville Council for its trade boycott of Israel, the more extremist fringe of the News Limited-led campaign against the boycott has got very nasty […]
Crikey Says: By the Wilkie standard, it’s on
At first glance, Wilkie’s alleged participation in bastardisation practices is newsworthy. But try to pin down exactly why we are being told this now, and the case starts to look weaker.
Jetconnect incident raises question of where Qantas calls home
Will the Qantas anthem continue to be “I still call Australia home” when the public increasingly realise that the plot is to call Auckland or Singapore home?
Rundle’s Friday argument starters: Bob Ellis, Mau Mau and Churchill
From sex scandals to ADFA to Anzac Day and colony wars in Kenya, Guy Rundle raises the big issues of the week.
Why the American public like Donald Trump
American politicians have been caught off guard by Donald Trump, whose dramatic rise in the polls has surprised everybody but himself. Why is he so popular? Matt Latimer takes some punts.
Cox: Gillard’s preaching doesn’t offer salvation for unemployed
‘Labor by name and Labour by nature’ may be a catchy title but it does little for those society excludes and then rejects. Julia Gillard ignores the evidence the problem with unemployment is as much a demand side problem as the fault of the unemployed.
Gillard mixes language of the Right with rhetoric from the Left
Julia Gillard gave a speech on jobs at the Sydney Institute, which almost everyone only heard what they wanted to hear. And what they seemed to want to hear was that Julia Gillard was beating up on unemployed, writes Greg Jericho.
Daily Proposition: watch Ita give birth to Cleo
Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo is a well worn, seen-it-all-before, paint by numbers mini-series — that you’ll love to bits. Tune in for revolutionary ideas, bad hair and the birth of an iconic media brand.
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A conversation with Lawrence Leung
Lawrence Leung talks to Matt Smith about his love of jetpacks, time travel, his ABC television show Choose Your Own Adventure and an upcoming production.
Why are deaths in custody rising?
Twenty years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, inmates are still dying as a result of the same practices the Commission sought to eliminate. Inga Ting begins a special investigation.
Review: Fiona Scott-Norman’s Disco: The Vinyl Solution (MICF)
Comedian/DJ Fiona Scott-Norman’s new show Disco: The Vinyl Solution lacks cohesiveness but Scott-Norman’s gangly charm carries it across the line, writes Luke Buckmaster.
Pacific Blue pilot charged with endangering safety, but airline goes scott free
New Zealand authorities have charged a Pacific Blue pilot with endangering safety during an after dark take-off at Queenstown last June yet taken no action against the Virgin Blue subsidiary, writes Ben Sandilands.
NoW phone hacking scandal: third arrest in a week
Overnight in London, News Corp’s hopes blew up when British police arrested a third senior News of The World executive. The arrest damages News’ leaked confidence that it has the situation under control.
book reviews 20 classics in 2011 #5: The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde’s classic story about a young man made forever young isn’t perfect, but it is perfectly enjoyable, writes Angela Meyer.
My Cup Of Tea: Hatched in Perth, visual artists make it big
One of the best-known graduate art shows iopens tonight at the Perth Institute for Contemporary Art. Hatched is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and has again attracted a vibrant field of 35 of the country’s most promising talents.
The Australian’s shameless beat-up on Larissa Behrendt
Larissa Behrendt’s controversial remarks about Bess Price on Twitter have been used by The Australian to damn an opponent of Andrew Bolt in a shameless exercise that they’re not finished with yet, writes Jeremy Sear.
Unexpected benefits of rural medical training
In a presentation held at the recent national rural health conference in Perth, Dr Peter Arvier discussed how undergraduate medical training in a small town led to unexpected benefits. Marge Overs reports on Arvier’s presentation.
Don’t get sucked into the culture war: open letter to Price and Behrendt
When are Aboriginal people ever going to wake up to the fact that this type of public argument between Aboriginal people (of varying degree of colour) is so damaging — to us, in the first instance, asks academic Sue Stanton?
An open letter to Bess Price and Larissa Behrendt
Sue Stanton addressing the public spat between Bess Price and Larissa Behrendt, imploring Aboriginal people to wake up to the fact that this type of public feud is unnecessary and damaging.
