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June, 2011
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Can Labor be saved?
Morning Market Report: Markets up, Greece to vote on bailout
Greece’s government received a vote of confidence despite protestors surrounding the parliament.
Media briefs: CMail’s JT campaign … US media jobs go … journos in exile …
There are campaigning newspapers (carbon tax, NBN, SuperClinics, refugees) and there are campaigning newspapers. Fresh from a victory to force child molesters to wear electronic GPS tags, the Courier-Mail has turned its sights on the really big issues…
The Media Monitors' Top 20: A bad week for brand Gillard
This was always going to be a difficult week, and the majority of media coverage has started to focus not just on Julia Gillard’s future but the future of the entire brand.
Political snippets: Some words of wisdom from a retiring President
At question time in the House of Representatives yesterday there was something of a novelty.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Serious IT breach at the ABC. Bitcoins, as Crikey explained on Monday, is an online-only currency system quickly increasing in value. And one ABC staffer has apparently cashed in, in a serious IT breach Crikey understands is being investigated by the national broadcaster. An ABC insider takes up the intriguing story: “The week before last […]
Crikey Says: Deaths in custody …. hello, anyone?
Today Crikey runs the final story in the Deaths in Custody investigation by Inga Ting.
Meghan McCain: So you want to beat Obama…
Republican sweetheart Meghan McCain offers seven very useful and practical tips for Republican presidential candidates, including don’t pretend to be cooler than Obama, forget the extreme right and talk to media apart from Fox News.
Libya: it’s a not a ‘war’ if Americans aren’t dying
The Obama administration has been able to launch attacks in Libya without congressional approval because it claims it isn’t a war. Why not? Because American soldiers aren’t dying (although Libyans are). But this is a war, declares Jonathan Schell.
Weird maths and the Australian ash crisis
The question arises as to whether some of the carriers are plucking their numbers for affected passengers out of thin air, writes Ben Sandilands.
Scoop: the winner of the 2011 Mens’ Franklin Award
W H Chong reveals the winner of the 2011 Men’s Franklin Award — the new term for the Miles Franklin, since no ladies are allowed — as well as discussing the new Women’s Franklin Award.
language The salubrious use of the word ‘salubrious’
Despite what you may think, the word ‘salubrious’ means healthy, not dodgy. But has this contrary ironic use of the term actually reversed its meaning? asks Piers Kelly.
NY Times reviews Go Back to Where You Came From
New SBS reality TV show/doco on refugees, Go Back to Where You Came From, is already getting international coverage. Matt Siegel explains that not all the participants had their mind changed by the experience.
Neighbours ‘real time’ an episode in novelty
In an ambitious move, tonight’s episode of classic Oz soap Neighbours has been filmed in real time, much like an episode of 24, or the film Nick of Time, explains Dan Barrett.
Not ready to let Roxon off the hook yet
Shakira Hussein was relieved to see her MS drug make the PBS approved list, but she’s not going to break open the metaphorical non-alcoholic champagne until the government reverses its decision to subject drugs recommended for subsidy to cabinet decision-making.
Ash cloud lifts, well, mostly
The brighter outlook for volcanic ash clearance from SE Australian skies this morning has lead to a comprehensive review of Qantas and Jetstar operations, reports Ben Sandilands.
My Rolls-Royce drugs need government fuel to drive them
Academic — and MS sufferer — Shakira Hussein writes about the difficulty of expensive but critical drugs she relies on being left off the PBS approved drug list.
Why trying to make your kids happy actually makes them miserable
Modern day parents are obsessed with propping up the self-esteem of their children and raising happy kids. But therapist Lori Gottlieb says that doesn’t explain why so many now-adults with happy childhoods are suffering anxiety and depression.
interview Jim Loach, director of Oranges and Sunshine
Oranges and Sunshine shines a light on heinous real life events that transpired in the 50s and 60s, when British children were deported to Australia, forced into labour and abused. Loach sat down to discuss some of the film’s key issues with Luke Buckmaster.
‘Oz leaks’ case returns to court, without fireworks
The Simon Artz “Oz Leaks” case returned to the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court this morning but rumoured fireworks mooted in the lead-up — that News Limited lawyers would try to have the proceedings moved in camera to protect its star associate editor Cameron Stewart — failed to eventuate.
Airlines get mixed report card on volcanic ash
Today’s ash crisis for people flying in south-east Australia was not the surprise to the airlines that it may have appeared.
Rundle: shepherds, portents and Europe face-to-face in Athens
Weeks after it began, the world’s press has started to pay attention to the real story in Greece — the continued refusal of the people of Greece to accept the conditions going with it.
