Stephen Smith has cleverly seized on the crisis of confidence in the ADF engendered by the ADFA scandal to push through a reform the military wants.
April, 2011
Pauline Hanson just falls short in NSW
Former One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, running as an independent, narrowly lost to the Greens for the last position in the NSW election.
Baillieu spinners in a spin over resources, as Nine veteran tapped
The strain at the top of the Baillieu Government’s fledgling media operation is beginning to show with veteran former Channel Nine political reporter David Broadbent — a former roommate of Jeff Kennett — drafted in to refine the message emanating from Liberal HQ.
Crikey Clarifier: Crikey Clarifier: why don’t women serve on the front line?
In the wake of the latest Australian Defence Force Academy behaviour scandal, the federal government will eliminate discrimination on the front line by allowing female combat officers. So why did it take so long, what are the reasons against it, and which other countries successfully employ female front-line troops? Crikey sought some answers… Where do […]
TV’s secret club of Logies judges
They’re supposed to be the awards that give credibility to TV’s popularly-nominated gongs, but mystery surrounds the panels of “experts” deciding the peer-nominated Logie Awards.
Bartholomeusz: Woodside’s shell is cracking
BHP Billiton has, perhaps temporarily, doused the flames of expectation that it was about to mount a $46 billion bid for Woodside Petroleum.
Guy Rundle: Rundles’s Euro Bites: Coalition shortens … Ice(land)capades … back o’ burqa? …
Odds that the UK coalition will not go the distance got a little shorter this week … Icelend, Iceland, Icesave, ice-cold … Clothes call for burqa in France …
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The News of the World hacking scandal
Crikey reads have their say.
Morning Market Report: Markets down as IMF cuts Oz forecast
The International Monetary Fund cut their economic growth forecasts for Australia, the US and Japan.
Political snippets: Labor’s opportunity to curb pokies
The Labor Party has a perfect opportunity in Canberra to demonstrate that it really does believe in the need to curb the problem of addiction to poker machine.
Video of the Day: A photobooth of found objects
We love a Rube Goldberg device here at Crikey, and this dominoes and other random objects inspired photobooth is a good ‘un. Rube Goldberg Photobooth from Crawford & Nelson on Vimeo.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
What will Chisholm do now? It’s always a numbers game in politics and insiders are wondering just what Anthony Chisholm is going to do now after narrowly missing out on Labor’s national secretary position. Some say he still has his eye on the coveted prize, claiming that the outsider and relatively unknown George Wright, expected […]
Crikey Says: Japan crisis escalates
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Japan… the nuclear rating gets lifted to a 7.
Finding blame, losing face in Japan’s now Chernobyl-like crisis
Extracting the precise information from the Japanese authorities has been so difficult that sequence of events remains unknown, but the extreme levels of radiation make it apparent everything went atrociously wrong.
PHOTO GALLERY 
Violence returns to Tahrir Square
Just last weekend the military arrived in Tahrir Square, Cairo, firing at protesters and trying to clear them from the square which was so crucial in demonstrations in February. Photographer David Degner was there.
Film to DVD aspect ratio: it’s all about perspective
Woody Allen’s 1977 classic Annie Hall is now available on DVD in 16:9 aspect ratio, despite the fact that it was shot in 4:3. Which is “correct?” John Carvill discusses the downside of cinema’s technological progression.
Smokers already being ripped off — plain packaging is just insulting
Australia’s four million-odd smokers had already been paying an extra $5.5 billion a year in tax to smoke, or about $1250 each. Plain packaging is just insulting, says economist and researcher Adam Creighton.
The strange reform hypocrisy of Australian business
Australian business has an ordinary record of backing economic reform.
Review: Matthew Kenneally’s The Great Escape (MICF)
Matt Keneally’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival show The Great Escape is politics-based but rather safe middle ground entertainment, writes Siobhan Argent.
Cleaner energy: the global power shift
Our politicians have been labouring under beliefs born under a credo of Western pre-eminence, and cheap oil and cheap debt, that has helped fashion our policies towards climate change, writes Giles Parkinson of Climate Spectator.
Japan nuclear crisis reaches Chernobyl levels
Following another spate of severe aftershocks, the Japanese nuclear situation has worsened, with authorities raising the severity level to 7, the highest international level. This puts the Fukushima plant on par with the 1968 Chernobyl disaster.
