The latest Essential Research poll finds the parties locked in their post-carbon tax stasis, with the Coalition steady on 47 percent, Labor steady on 35 percent and the Greens up one to 10 percent, writes William Bowe.
May, 2011
newspaper death watch 
Senior age journos maintain their (r)age
Some of The Age’s most senior journalists have put their name to a statement lambasting the newspaper’s decision to outsource subediting, writes Margaret Simons.
You can’t jump a queue when there is no queue
With the federal government having announced a new asylum seekers deal with Malaysia, now is a good time to ditch tired rhetoric and acknowledge that terms like ‘queue jumpers’ are misleading and insensitive, writes Erdem Koc.
Bolt’s Report: worst current affairs show ever?
The reviews are in for The Bolt Report, Andrew Bolt’s new Sunday morning TV pulpit at Channel Ten — and they’re not pretty, writes Jason Whittaker.
Did MasterChef slip up on OH&S? Wet kitchen draws viewer fire
Occupational health and safety concerns are generating discussion in the vocal MasterChef community, with viewers questioning whether water visible on the floor of the show’s set represents a hazard for the contestants.
British anti-Islamists to march on parliament
A far-right fringe group modelled on violent English Defence League is gathering support for a rally at Melbourne’s Federation Square next Sunday to protest “Islamic extremists” and prevent Australia becoming “another Europe”.
Bipartisan attack on Woolworths over bullyboy legal tactics
It’s not often you get former John Howard cabinet favourites turning up at protest rallies against big business.
Essential: bin Laden’s death = more terrorism?
More Australians think the death of Osama bin Laden will see more terrorism than believe it will help — but more think it’ll make no difference.
MEAA: risk-taking Fairfax needs a plan that works
Fairfax Media’s cost-cutting strategy is a risky business, writes Christopher Warren, of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance.
The Holy Grail, 3am: welcome to the federal budget ‘Big Day Out’
The federal budget is “The Big Day Out” for the political and financial media in Australia, writes Mr Denmore, a veteran journalist and blogger at The Failed Estate.
Online retailing: the great Australian gouge
Australians are being charged far more for products than overseas consumers — and not just by bricks-and-mortar outlets. Crikey examines the expensive goods and the retailers’ hypocrisy.
Innovation in journalism: an example of how to do it — profitably
This is the first episode in a regular Monday series of articles I have been promising to write for some time. It is about innovation in journalism. That is, it is about how we might innovate in the core product of news organisations. It is intended as a counter to what I have been describing […]
‘It felt like an electric shock’: life inside Malaysian detention
Asylum seekers and refugees in Malaysia are often subjected to judicial canings, long periods of incarceration and arbitrary arrest, according to reports from within the country’s immigration detention system.
Maley: land of the slow-rising yuan
The US has long complained that the yuan is artificially undervalued, giving China’s exporters an unfair cost advantage in world markets, writes Karen Maley.
Subeditors? Substantial savings? Get ya hand off it, Fairfax
Subeditors rarely make mistakes, they sometimes miss other people’s and, generally when that happens, the sub is usually first in line for a kick in the arse. Crikey grumpy old man and sub Mick Vaughan laments a soon-to-be-lost art.
RU486 a safe option for abortion: access needs to be expanded
It is highly desirable that the Australian use of mifepristone be carefully scrutinised and that the processes be totally transparent, writes Professor Caroline de Costa.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: UK elections and Scots take a step towards independence
The tedium of the UK regional and local elections was relieved when the Scottish National Party stormed to power north of the border with a phenomenal vote.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Executing bin Laden
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: Good US data pushes markets up
Nonfarm payrolls rose by 244,000 jobs in April, the most since May 2010.
Media briefs: Age staff rally … newspaper photoshops Hillary Clinton from iconic photo …
In today’s Media Briefs: NPR social-media guru explains Twitter ethics, ABC edges closer to rule change on paid sales, European ventures seek to fill a void in world news and more …
Political snippets: Gillard move straight from the Bolt playbook
In the Sunday newspapers was the story of the federal Labor government having accepted one of Andrew Bolt’s recommendations. And not a word from him about this confirmation of his importance.
Video of the Day: The Stolen Scream — how a self portrait travelled the world
Five years ago Noam Galai uploaded a photograph of himself screaming onto Flickr. In a clothes shop six months later he discovered that same image on a t-shirt, and with no effort or intention it went on to become an iconic piece of art across the world — on street walls, corporate advertisements, magazines and more.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Film funding a bridge too far? There are rumours the feature film adaptation of Arthur Miller’s famous play A View From The Bridge is now seeking direct subsidy from Screen Australian. First there was controversy — as reported in Crikey — over why an adaptation of an American classic set in New York (but shot in Melbourne) should be […]
