Rann staffer heads for the gallery. The Advertiser’s new Canberra correspondent is none other than Catherine Hockley. She was the media adviser to Rann government health minister John Hill for eight years, then most recently his chief of staff. She married Hill’s Health Department chief executive Tony Sherbon. Sherbon has recently moved to Canberra to take […]
April, 2011
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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Super women
Super women Eva Cox writes: Re. Barbara McGarity (comments, yesterday) As it was my article, yes I can. Like many good ideas it disappeared. It’s not employer contributions that are the issue, it is that these increases come instead of wage rises, so it reduces take home pay, which is a problem for low income […]
As Murdoch steps up, the biggest relationship risk is Fox News
Is a 38-year-old Harvard dropout ready to take charge of the world’s most global and powerful media company? Many argue James Murdoch does have the necessary smarts to succeed his father as CEO of News Corporation.
Problems with pushing new coercive employment policies
Beware the welfare policy areas when we get bi-partisanship.
The revolution of the vending machine
The humble vending machine is now being used to distribute methadone in prison and gold bars in airports. We’re currently experiencing a vending machine revolution and they’re not going away any time soon, writes Leo Hickman.
Wealthy mansions are ‘on-shore tax havens’
Leading affordable housing advocate professor Julian Disney has described Australia’s mansions as on-shore tax havens that suck resources from more productive investments, and called for an end to the “huge distortions” in the way housing is taxed.
Libya: the modern liberal war
The situation in Libya is a perfect summary of a 21-century liberal war, with half baked measures instead of direct force and innumerable legal absurdities. If it wanted to NATO could topple Libya in a day, writes Simon Jenkins.
NSW election: authenticity and re-engaging the grassroots
At a time when Labor has discovered the need to reconnect with voters, one organisation is using grassroots activism techniques honed in the US
Melbourne Comedy Festival review: Jason Byrne’s Cirque du Byne
Jason Byrne has a very inclusive kind of comedy, so this slightly uncomfortable and very funny show is not the kind you want to be late for, writes Matt Smith.
How long before the newspaper biz goes belly-up?
Fear of oblivion is inspiring publishers to make huge changes but no newspapers have found a workable business model. We all know traditional newspapers are doomed, but how long do they have left? asks Ken Doctor.
When the show mustn’t go on: council unplugs a rural festival
What happens when a fledgling music festival comes to the attention of a local council? Red tape eventually strangled the Party in the Patch event in Victoria’s Yarra Ranges.
News Ltd War on the Greens tactic #1: make stuff up
On The Punch editor David Penberthy claimed the Greens chose to direct preferences to Pauline Hanson ahead of the ALP during the NSW election. That is completely untrue, writes Jeremy Sear.
podcast Just Go With it movie review
The romantic comedy Just Go With it stars Adam Sandler as a man who pretends to be married in order to pick up women. It’s amusing but thoroughly expendable, says Luke Buckmaster on Melbourne Talk Radio.
Review: George McEnroe’s The Care Factor
George McEncroe, current performing in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival show The Care Factor, is a gifted storyteller who the audience can relate and she invites everyone to laugh at her insecurities and neurosis, writes Matt Smith.
A hyper-local media future for one regional community
The big world of media rolls on and on with a fresh outrage every minute. And so we forget the small signs of optimism.
Hyperlocal journalism in Castlemaine
Hyperlocal journalism refers to a community or community member that creates a website that aims to be intensely connected with a small, local audience, such as Castlemaine Independent, writes Margaret Simons.
Maley: a Portuguese pecuniary prison
Portugal appears headed for a perfect storm, with a growing financial crisis brewing at the same time that its outgoing government says it lacks the authority to seek an international bailout, writes Karen Maley of Business Spectator.
healthcare Avoiding the “road to hell” in Indigenous policy
This week Andrew Podger, Professor of Public Policy at ANU, delivered a Reconciliation Lecture titled Avoiding roads to hell, which addressed public policy and Indigenous affairs. Visit Crikey’s health blog Croakey for a transcript.
Gillard: ‘we are a party of ideas’
Yesterday Julia Gillard delivered the inaugural Gough Whitlam Oration in Sydney. Her speech, Walking the Reform Road, included a blunt assessment of NSW Labor’s woes and responded to the widespread criticism that Labor doesn’t know what it stands for.
What are the legit models regarding CO2?
How does someone know which models are “bad science” in regard to CO2 modelling? What concentration of CO2 makes it critical? Crikey ask the climate scientists.
