Missing from the government’s 96-page report into mining in the WPA is discussion of a potential windfall or special dividend for the original pre-1947 residents of the area, writes Luke Miller.
May, 2011
Smarter budget cuts? Government to target the usual suspects
With the federal budget in the next week, there is the usual jockeying for headlines by various groups.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Osama and the Laws of Armed Conflict
Crikey readers have their say.
A Green welcome for Labor refugees
The Greens should be preparing to receive the next lot of refugees from Labor.
Morning Market Report: Oil stocks plunge, CRB commodity index falls
Oil fell 8.6%, its biggest one-day loss on record and had its first close below $100 since mid-March.
Media briefs: Emptiness at The Age … praise for our Paul … Bolt’s weird spray …
In today’s Media Briefs: shambles at The Age … Vic rock lobby defends diminishing returns … Facebook will pay gamers to watch video ads … Big change for MTV networks … and more …
Video of the Day: Video of the Day: transform yourself into an action figure
Ever felt the urge to transform yourself into an action figurine? Perhaps not, but a recent installation in Barcelona allowed passersby to do precisely that by using light scanners and a 3D printer to turn them into their own souvenirs.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Pagemasters makes way for Fairfax subs. Heard from a reliable source that AAP HQ in Rhodes has already started knocking down walls to accomodate the new Fairfax sub hub. Indicates they think it’s a done deal. Munro doesn’t like to be rested. Mike Munro is going on the road as a reporter for Sunday Night, […]
Crikey Says: Crikey says: this could do with a sub
The two most trashed and misunderstood words in the agonising debate about the future of news are “quality journalism”.
My Cup Of Tea: Government converges on growing cultural reality
With the federal government’s Convergence Review under way, Catherine Lumby and Kate Crawford have set forward some new principles for regulatory reform. The current landscape is not a pretty picture.
theatre reviews 
Next To Normal — Playhouse, Melbourne
A musical about bipolar disorder? Next To Normalis an unswervingly honest piece of Pulitzer Prize-winning theatre. But miscasting blunts the power of this Melbourne Theatre Company production, says Jason Whittaker.
Libya 
Carr: Humanitarian intervention is great…in theory
The West’s hasty commitment to Libya failed to answer pertinent questions such as: who are the rebels? Are we backing Islamists? Humanitarian intervention sounds attractive but there is only so much the West can do, writes Bob Carr.
Beware of the WSJ’s shoddy WikiLeaks knockoff
The Wall Street Journal this week launched Safehouse, its very own version of WikiLeaks. But beware: there is a dodgy caveat in its terms of use and numerous security flaws, writes Adrian Chen.
newspaper death watch Firfax utsources suburbs
Here’s a message for Fairfax, which announced the outsourcing of subediting of major mastheads: subs aren’t just glorified spell-checkers and pun obsessed headline writers, writes Dave Gaukroger.
Paying for health care: how can we sustain it?
The constraints on public sector financing mean governments will need to play a more active role in determining what will, and will not, be funded in health care, writes Anne-marie Boxall.
Talkin’ ethnobiology in Ohio
Bob Gosford is attending the annual Society of Ethnobiology in Ohio, where he will give two presentations, one of them titled ‘Trespass, Ticks and Twitchers: The Price of a Parrot.’
Review: Embassytown by China Miéville
Embassytown represents China Miéville’s first dive into pure science fiction. As typical for Miéville, he takes to the new ground like he’s been working in it all his life, writes Lyndon Riggal.
healthcare Another point of view on physician assistants
The medical graduates system is bottlenecked by vastly increased student numbers, which have grown by up to 120% over 8 years without any concurrent increase in the numbers of clinical supervisors, writes Dr Luke Oakden-Rayner.
Paywalls at News Limited – announcement in the wind?
You heard it here first. As I reported here a couple of weeks ago, News Limited newsrooms are on instructions to be ready to move to a paywall system on short notice, writes Margaret Simons.
Pat Anderson: intervention neither well-intentioned nor well-evidenced
Pat Anderson co-authored the Little Children are Sacred report for the NT government. The subsequent NT intervention ignored everything the report recommended, says Anderson.
Labor’s quest for business endorsement on carbon
Business endorsement of a carbon price won’t assist Labor, and it’s unlikely to get it anyway.
Osama’s kill raid a hall of mirrors for Pakistani relations
Until more information becomes available, the border lines between analysis, speculation and conspiracy theories about the death of Osama bin Laden — not to mention his life over the past decade — are pretty fuzzy. At the moment, we are all lost in a wilderness of mirrors. But I am prepared to use the basic information that bin Laden was […]
