Climate scientist rappers reveal why they did itA YouTube clip of climate scientists rapping about the dangers of climate change has gone viral and Graham Readfearn interviews the scientists behind the video to see why they did it.
May, 2011
My Cup Of Tea: Picking through the scraps of budget arts funding
It’s been a generally positive federal budget for the arts and culture sectors. But the efficiency dividend will hit smaller cultural institutions hard.
Ditch the budget reply — it’s a waste of time
Tony Abbott offered a content-free Budget Reply last night — but he’s not the first opposition Leader to do that. We may as well ditch the ritual.
Fresh protests as focus turns to Lynas’ radioactive dump
The backlash against Lynas’ controversial plans to process radioactive rare earths 3000km from its Mount Weld mine has kicked up a notch, with locals planning fresh protests and the Australian media finally cottoning onto the stoush.
Newspaper circulations on the march … downwards
Despite the usual attempts to spin the numbers, the quarterly newspaper circulation figures for March were not good.
Crikey readers respond: yep, we’re being gouged — a lot
Crikey readers have responded in force to our story on the difference between local and foreign prices for the same goods.
Maley: a commodities Chinese burn?
Are fears about a looming slow-down in the Chinese economy about to overshadow worries about rising inflation? asks Karen Maley.
Budget breakdown: the holding pattern on clean-tech investment
In the first of a series of post-budget reports, Fiona Armstrong and Laura Eadie from the Centre for Policy Development explore options to encourage innovation and roll out less mature renewable energy technologies.
Fukushima nuke plant ‘in a state of meltdown’
According to Japanese media reports, there seems to have been a partial or substantial meltdown of the fuel rods in the No.1 reactor at Fukushima.
Cox: PM’s macho social agenda has balls but no heart
The whole Women’s Budget statement is a paean of praise for the virtues of hard work and economic participation, like so much of the rest of the budget
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Middle-class welfare
Crikey reads have tehir say.
Daily Proposition: Strap in for Helicopter Sunday
It’s a two-horse race plagued by financial woes, sectarianism and creeping irrelevance, dwarfed as it is by one of the world’s biggest sporting competitions. But heck, the Scottish Premier League’s “Helicopter Sunday” is exciting, says Jim Forbes.
Namibia’s class warfare: mining booms but nobody gets fed
Think Australia has a middle-class welfare problem? Namibia is the most economically unequal country in the world, writes Robert Johnson from the west African nation, despite its rich resource revenues.
Video of the Day: Black metal vegan chef
What happens when you mix metal, a vegan pad thai and the internet?
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Fielding dealing in dying Senate days. Labor wouldn’t be contemplating an arrangement with departing Senator Steve Fielding over his support for government bills in the remaining seven Senate sitting days, would it? Then again, it would be appropriate that some of the people responsible for Fielding gracing the Senate in the first place might yet […]
Old fox Dalai Lama plans to outlast power of the Chinese
The Tibetan exiles expect that when the Dalai Lama dies, the Chinese will try to control the discovery of his successor, writes MP Michael Danby, chair of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Tibet.
Political snippets: Australia’s economic future looking not too bad
When you look at the figures for the total number of hours worked in the employment figures released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics you see the picture was not nearly as gloomy as the commentators this morning suggest.
Crikey Says: Fairfax stuck in the spin cycle
For politicians and journalists, spin is the word of our times. Politicians do it incessantly, the media attempt to detect and deflect it incessantly.
My best mate is missing in Syria
It’s been nearly two weeks since Melanie McFarland heard from her best friend, Al Jazeera journalist Dorothy Parvaz. Parvaz has been mysteriously detained in Damascus, Syria after being sent to cover the political unrest.
How bin Laden sent email without the internet
There was no internet in Osama bin Laden’s secret hideout but bin Laden still regularly emailed his followers, by typing out letters which would be carried by trusted courier to an internet cafe.
