It’s easy to laugh at Bob Katter, who has years of form in threatening to establish new political parties, and who yesterday was talking about a “new political direction” and the “tanks and ammunition” that he had for it.
May, 2011
Some plain talking about nuclear lies
In news reports we have another carefully metered dose of the truth seeping out from the corrupt, incompetent and totally dishonest Tokyo Electric Power Company, writes Ben Sandilands.
Rundle: in the face of blinding hypocrisy, the apocalypse goes on
The Right refuses to acknowledge the overwhelming probability of man-made global warming — while relying in their everyday lives on a world made by the science that predicts it. The Rapture that wasn’t exposes the hypocrisy.
What a plank: SA AG’s office mulls planking ban
South Australia is considering outlawing “precipitous” planking attempts as the increasingly-popular social media-fueled craze puts the fragile lives of the state’s vulnerable youth at serious risk.
WikiLeaks and Gillard’s laissez faire approach to national security
Julia Gillard was generally taking “between four and six days” to read “urgent material” from senior national security advisers during the height of Australian intelligence community consternation over WikiLeaks. Luke Miller asks why nobody seemed to care.
Feminism is alive and kicking and wearing whatever it wants
You can’t have it both ways — if you want people to be feminists, and engage in active political protest, you can’t then police the way they choose to do it, writes Karen Pickering.
Rich support middle-class welfare — but not for lower class
People on higher incomes more strongly support middle class welfare, Essential polling shows. But, they don’t like it so much for households on lower incomes.
Why won’t govt put community health above complementary medicines?
Governments are reluctant to tackle a lack of transparency in the labelling and marketing of the complementary medicines, writes Carol Bennett, chief executive officer of the Consumers Health Forum.
SA Premier, minister, in the gun for attacking lawyers
The president of the South Australian Bar Association has ripped into the Premier Mike Rann and his Police Minister Kevin Foley for attacking defence lawyers arising from an alleged assault on Foley, writes Des Ryan, editor of online Adelaide newspaper InDaily.
Maley: China’s thinning economic grip
Fears of a slowing Chinese economy added to the woes of global sharemarkets overnight, as investors fretted that the juggernaut of global economic growth could finally be faltering, writes Karen Maley.
Bringing down the wall: News in flurry to lock up content
News Limited could be a fortnight away from locking up some of its websites as part of a brave new world of paid web content.
Wild child Nine the leader of the complaints (about TV) pack
Nine is the most complained about network in the country. Seven and Ten have had complaints made against them as well, but not on the scale of the Nine Network.
Q&A: intellectual Wizz Fizz or prunes for the brain?
Q&A is in fact not democratic media. It is nothing more than an adventure in autocracy, writes freelance journalist Gary Newman.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The climate change challenge — do we really want to?
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: Bad European data pushes markets down
Euro zone debt fears in focus as Greek and Italian debt ratings were lowered.
Daily Proposition: Let them eat (banana) cake
As the months become progressively colder, it’s time to rug up in your winter woollies and hibernate. That means cranking up the oven and baking a cake to Crikey intern Esther Ooi.
Media briefs: Albo goes The Tele … the Giggs balls-up … NineMSN CEO resigns …
In today’s Media Briefs: Albo takes on The Tele … The Herald Sun’s teenage years. … Front Page of the Day … The Department of Corrections … Twitter gag order collapses as soccer star Ryan Giggs is outed …
Political snippets: Punishing Western Australia but not too much
I cannot see that it really matters which government gets the extra money from the Western Australian mining industry.
Video of the Day: Republican’s rousing gay marriage plea
On Saturday the Minnesota House of Representatives voted 70-62 in favour of a constitutional ban on same-s-x marriage. Republican Tim Kriesel gave an impassioned and moving address, explaining why he became an advocate for gay marriage rights and imploring his GOP colleagues to follow suit.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
ANZ on path to IT meltdown. ANZ’s share price isn’t the only thing that’s been dropping for the bank this week with its much-maligned IT system again in freefall. In the past 24 hours, ANZ’s offshoot — OnePath — has been without its website for 24 hours, leaving tens of thousands of superannuation investors cut off from their investments, […]
healthcare It’s time for public interest action on complementary medicines
Governments are clearly reluctant to tackle the obvious lack of transparency in the labelling and marketing of the growing multi-billion dollar complementary medicines (CMs) industry, writes Carol Bennett.
My experience as a judge at Cannes
The Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw picked up the phone and heard a cultured French voice ask him if he wanted to serve as a judge at this year’s Cannes film festival. “Oui!” came the thundering response.
