With the strong Tuesday night ahead, Seven is on track for another win.
June, 2011
Media briefs: ABC Tassie staff angry … Kerry stole 7.30 eyes …
Tasmania ABC TV staff have called for managing director Mark Scott to provide greater certainty on the future of television production in the Apple Isle. Plus other media news of the day.
Political snippets: Rudd MIA on asylum seekers — but he said he would be
In Rudd’s defence we should remember what he said in his speech announcing after being challenged last year for his leadership…
Video of the Day: Palin needs a history lesson
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin visited the home of Paul Revere — who famously on his “midnight ride warned that the British were coming — as part of her One Nation tour. Unfortunately she got the historical details a little confused …
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
BAT gears up for plain pack fight. A major national law firm has been engaged by British American Tobacco to challenge the plain packaging laws. It currently has half a dozen intellectual property lawyers running out of Melbourne working on it. Logging in breach of agreements? Are you aware that a Tasmanian logging company moved […]
Crikey Says: Reality v fantasy
Welcome to the parallel universe of Australian politics on asylum seekers — or more correctly a real world and a fantasy world.
Why you shouldn’t underestimate Merkel
She’s been dubbed the world’s most powerful woman. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has held on to power despite global economy crashes and a euro crisis. Joshua Hammer explains how she does it.
Did a man or woman write this?
In recent weeks debate has erupted in Oz over female authors. But can you easily differentiate between the writings of a man and a woman? Take The Guardian’s interactive test…
film reviews 
From Time to Time: no time for ghost-themed goop
From the soapy hand of director Julian Fellowes comes From Time to Time, a ghost-themed gift-wrapped package of UK-set Hollywood flavoured hokum, writes Luke Buckmaster.
travel Slovenia: a cheap, hedonistic and delicious destination
Nicola Heath bought plane tickets to Slovenia because they were the cheapest available. Luckily, Ljubljana, its capital, is a small but perfectly formed city, presided over by a hilltop castle.
PHOTO GALLERY A night at Pigeonhole, NT: “Look at the stars, look how they shine for you…”
It was a clear moonless night when Bob Gosford dragged his trusty camera out at Pigeonhole, a small Aboriginal township in the Victoria River district to take a few shots of the brilliant night sky.
Writing on writing: how to kill cliches dead
Harry Birmingham has been professional writer for more than ten years, but it was only when asked to produce a How to Write book that he came to think systematically about the craft of writing.
Good tales growing on trees
The authors have dubbed their finding The Great Reversal — while the area of planet Earth covered by forests might still be slowly decreasing, the density of forests is increasing, writes Richard Farmer.
New trends and gender shifts
The last six weeks has been busy in politics — from budgets to boat people to carbon pricing — but none of it made a jot of difference on the ALP’s two-party preferred vote, writes Possum Comitatus.
Taxing credulity on carbon polls
Two pollsters — Roy Morgan and Galaxy — have lowered their colours in recent days with poorly framed questions on the carbon tax, writes William Bowe.
Softly, softly should be the Gillard style
Julia Gillard has demonstrated on countless occasions that she is a very capable insulter. But perhaps the time has come for her to soften her language, writes Richard Farmer.
Marco Bass resigns as Vic ABC News Editor
Veteran ABC Victorian News Editor Marco Bass has resigned this afternoon.
Axeman arrives at Fairfax: Age subs tapped on the shoulder
The axe swung low at The Age last night, where numerous subeditors were tapped on the shoulder and told their time at the company was up.
All aboard the Lulzboat for another raid on Sony
Sony has been cracked yet again, confirming its shocking state of cyber-security. How many other firms are in the same (lulz)boat?
Federal Court decision breaks through the native title roadblock
This power to determine native title applications without a court hearing has been neglected in most Australian state jurisdictions, however in the NT the government, native title representative bodies and non-government parties have embraced the approach set out in section 87.
Bartholomeusz: local currency lens distorts market view
It was curious that the Australian sharemarket fell yesterday in line with what happened on the US markets — curious because the market had become disconnected over the past nine months, and the poor economic news that drove markets down was US-centric.
‘Gossip as usual next week’: Firm Spy back but dodging questions
Law firm gossip clearing house Firm Spy is back online today, one day after its account was shut down for unknown reasons.
