I’d like to make clear from the outset that my family’s beef farm is in Victoria, and so the current controversy around the live export trade to Indonesia, sparked by the recent Four Corners report, does not have a direct nor immediate impact on our farm business. Some might suggest this disqualifies me from making […]
June, 2011
The Weiner show: we have no prick of conscience
Anthony Weiner’s underwear gets as much media attention as Syria’s entire civil uprising. I despair for humanity.
Hey Pauline Hanson’s mole, if you’re reading this: please explain
Pauline Hanson stands to lose a fortune in legal fees after the man who leaked her emails purporting to show a vote-rigging cover-up failed to show up in court yesterday. It now appears the whistleblower may not exist at all.
Live export industry’s hypocrisy on animal activists
A 2009 report shows that the cattle industry regarded animal welfare as a marketing problem, that needed more funding for ads.
Terry Moran: the challenges of federalism
The federation we have built is more popular than many commentators would lead you to believe. And there are good reasons for the support it attracts. The challenge we face is to make it work better, says Terry Moran, Secretary, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Factoids and legal bollocks in war against plain packaging
With the passage of the government’s bill on plain packaging now assured, an ever-desperate tobacco industry is now concentrating on the legal apocalypse that they say will descend on Australia through the courts.
VMIA blocks release of damning report into bully-boy culture
Multi-billion dollar state government insurer VMIA has moved to block the release of a damning report laying bare the culture of bullying at the organisation that has led to a massive staff exodus and a tranche of unfair dismissal claims.
Maley: waging a battle against stalling productivity
There’s no doubt that the core reason that our productivity is ebbing is that we’ve lost the zeal for microeconomic reforms, writes Karen Maley of Business Spectator.
After-effects of GFC disaster continue to emerge
Governments have a habit of meddling with things. This is largely due to the political imperative of being seen to be doing something to fix economic problems.
Newspaper campaigns don’t have much to do with the public
They’re often waged in your name. But are the newspaper campaigns for accountability, justice, recognition and low, low prices really for the public good? For tabloid papers around the country they’re as much about circulation-driving populaism. And at News Limited, awards.
Why Gunns is teetering in Tassie
What company has received $500 million in cash from the issue of new shares over the past three years but only has a market value of $300 million? asks accountant John Lawrence.
Garnaut still distracted by the search for the ‘holy grail’
Amid predictable exchanges of hysteria and jubilation from the warring factions in the carbon price debate, a more fundamental set of concerns about Ross Garnaut’s advice has been missed, writes Fergus Green, a lawyer and policy analyst specialising in climate change.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Qantas CEO Alan Joyce responds
Crikey reads have their say.
Last Bets: which brand of poker machine are you?
Poker machine themes play an important part in conditioning players to gamble and there are millions of dollars being invested by the big companies every year to find the next big thing. So which brand of machine suits you?
Morning Market Report: US markets slump for a sixth straight day
US markets had a sixth straight loss and the longest losing streak since February 2009.
Daily Proposition: Read something ‘Australian’
What is “Australian” writing? In the inaugural Miles Franklin award oration on Tuesday, Peter Temple gave the question a red-hot go. It poses some interesting examples to read, says Siobhan Argent.
Media briefs: Dumbing down your fault … Middleton phones hacked
Walkley Award-winning inquisitor and A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw has, to her credit, stood up for dumbing down early-evening television. Plus other media news of the day.
Video of the Day: Birnbauer on the importance of subeditors
Award-winning investigative journalist and editor from The Age — and now senior lecturer in journalism at Monash University — Bill Birnbauer discusses Fairfax’s decision to cut subeditors and how important subs are for both a journalist and an editor. Bill Birnbauer on Fairfax’s decision to outsource subeditorial roles from Matt Mitchell on Vimeo.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Victorian MP headed for the door? There is a certain Liberal state MP who is already known to be in hot water. But according to senior legal sources, his problems could be so bad as to force him out of office before Christmas. If that happened and if a non-Coalition supporter won the seat, it […]
Crikey Says: Marketing won’t save the live export industry now
As late as 2009 the cattle industry itself viewed concerns about live cattle exports as simply the “rhetoric” of “animal activists” and thought the solution was to spend more money on a marketing campaign.
A clover coffee what? The definitive guide to being a bean snob
A cup of joe doesn’t just mean lattes and cappuccinos. Ed Charles outlines the coffee terminology of all the hipster cool coffee trends popping up in urban cafes.
