Aussie animals being mistreated in filthy foreign abattoirs is an issue that is becoming a licence to withdraw from the universalism that has to underpin a proper treatment of refugees
June, 2011
Labor knows the rituals of communication but not their meaning
This time around, the Government is fighting back against rentseekers on climate change. But it still lacks a strategy.
Daily Proposition: Listen up, cool cats … just listen
The Melbourne International Jazz Festival kicked off on Saturday. Tonight’s highlights include New York’s hip-hop inspired Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, drummer Jim Black’s AlasNoAxis, and traffic. Yes, traffic. Iona Salter explains.
Big Tobacco hires crack team to take plain pack fight to Roxon
British American Tobacco have engaged high-priced corporate lawyers Corrs Chambers Westgarth to pilot their offensive against Nicola Roxon’s plain packaging scheme for cigarettes.
War on the Internet IV: you are the network’s resilience
The effectiveness of government attacks on the internet can be blunted by some easily-accessible tools.
The great News experiment begins
As expected, today at the Mumbrella360 conference News Limited’s Richard Freudenstein announced that the company’s Australian newspapers will erect paywalls for some of their content online.
Santorum’s presidential hopes face a sticky problem
Rick Santorum is running for president? Hah! The religious right of the Republicans might reckon they’ve found their man in this confrontationist conservative former senator from Pennsylvania, but did they check Google?
Bartholomeusz: why investors can’t stomach Palmer
The weekend collapse of Clive Palmer’s latest attempt to float his Resourcehouse in Hong Kong shouldn’t have surprised anyone who glanced at the group’s prospectus.
Qantas to suffer as Virgin gets it on with Singapore Airlines
The contrast between a floundering Qantas management and Virgin Australia at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) conference in Singapore is painful to watch.
Questions Gillard should ask in Alice Springs, but probably won’t
It is four years this month since the Mal Brough emergency intervention in the NT and today the PM goes to Alice Springs to see the “progress” supposedly being made.
Fraser v Howard … left and right doing it by the book
Eloise Keating, a journalist for BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER, looks at the reaction to the biographies of two former prime ministers.
Journalism’s ‘Houdini’ mourned after brutal murder
Debate rages about who was behind the brutal murder of Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, writes Josephine McKenna, a Rome-based freelance journalist.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Polling, mandates and the carbon tax
Crikey reads have their say.
Morning Market Report: Markets down, gold climbs to five week high
The Dow Jones closed down for the 4th consecutive session
Media briefs: Vigilante call … Apple in the clouds …
The Gold Coast came to a standstill this morning for the funeral of slain police detective Damian Leeding. But that’s not enough for local paper the Gold Coast Bulletin. Plus other media news…
Political snippets: The Federal Government is always in a hurry
One feature of this federal government is that it is always in a hurry.
Video of the Day: The Oz’s ‘freemium’ package
CEO of News Digital Media and The Australian, Richard Freudenstein, unveils the paper’s ”freemium” paywall plan to be introduced in October, in his keynote speech at Mumbrella 360. (Note: a higher quality version of the video will be available later this afternoon.)
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Davis’ record on freedom of expression. University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor Glyn Davis issued a bullish statement on the climate scientist death threat scandal yesterday calling for “academic freedom” to reign supreme over snipers hell bent on intimidation. But it seems Glyn is a recent convert to the cause. In 2008 he famously demoted leading […]
Vintage First Dog: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Crikey’s cartoonist recommended this one, from 6 April 2009, a personal favourite…
Crikey Says: Crikey says: the age of pragmatism
We forgive News Limited’s Richard Freudenstein for using the word “freemium” at least half a dozen times in a speech delivered this morning at the Mumbrella 360 conference.
From free man to slave: walking through the ‘door of no return’
St George’s Castle in Elmina, Ghana, was the spot where thousands of West Africans were kept in cells and then pushed on to boats to be sent as slave to the Americas. Claire Chaffey went along for a sombre visit.
podcast Canberra Calling: The War on the Internet podcast
Bernard Keane and Sophie Black discuss Crikey’s “War on the Internet” series — specifically chronicling the wave of attacks being launched by governments the world over on both the internet and its users.
