Grassroots ALP members in the NSW seat of Gosford are staring down the return of their bete noir Belinda Neal to the state political spotlight after the dumped Iguanagate MP was elected as a delegate to this year’s Labor state conference.
June, 2011
Last Bets: QHA’s pokies reforms are ‘tobacco industry tactics’
There are many tactics that the gambling industry resorts to in defence of its profits including misleading the public through misinformation campaigns, writes Angela Rintoul, Claire Tobin, Darshini Ayton and Charles Livingstone, of Monash University’s Department of Health Social Science.
Garnaut’s ‘in for a penny, in for a quid’ approach to reform
Ross Garnaut figures if you’re undertaking a major reform you may as well do as much as possible.
Deaths in custody: ‘I’m homicidal, I’ve told them that for days’
Careless or inappropriate jail or cell placement has contributed to at least 20 deaths in NSW prison custody in the past decade, according to a Crikey analysis of coronial reports. Inga Ting continues her special investigation.
Censorship of Fukushima information leaves Japan in fear
Attempting to censor a public already starved of meaningful information on the threat posed to their long-term health seems counter-productive, writes Dan Bray, a freelance journalist and former Japan resident.
Parkinson: making carbon a pollie-free zone
Professor Ross Garnaut has concluded the only safe way to manage a carbon price going forward is to keep politicians as far away from the process as possible, writes Giles Parkinson.
Live exports ban a threat to delicate trade dispute
It is unlikely the Indonesians will be rushing to improve the conditions of its abattoirs, writes Stuart Ranfurlie, a freelance journalist in Jakarta.
Berlusconi gets, err, routed … by political tsunami backlash
People partied into the wee hours after the unbelievable drubbing dished out to the Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in the Milan’s local elections, writes Josephine McKenna in Rome.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Carbon tax, celebrities and climate change
Correction: Brenden Hills, The Sunday Telegraph, writes: Re. “Tips and rumours” (yesterday, item 8). Crikey published: “The co-author of the Sunday Telegraph’s “Carbon” Cate Blanchett beat-up, Brenden Hills, is fondly remembered by Labor advisers for an amusing performance during the NSW state election campaign. Spies say Hills ventured down to Pitt Street’s Civic Hotel one […]
Media briefs: Subs revolt at iPad launch … Facebook’s free AFR … Pakistan journalist found dead
Deputy editor quits The Age … Subs fight taken to Age iPad launch … AFR is free on Facebook … Worst slowdown since medieval times? …
Political snippets: A big GDP fall but no need to worry
What makes this downturn not a matter for real concern is that, with nature having been kinder since February, export growth is back on track so we are not on the verge of a recession as a casual glance at the figures might indicate.
Video of the Day: A public toilet makeover
Wouldn’t public toilets be so much nicer if they came with flowers, paintings, candles and a cold six-pack of beer? New Melbourne beer brand Doss Blockos cleverly mixes public toilet makeovers with its marketing campaign. Dossing Around #2 from East 9th Brewing on Vimeo.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
O’Farrell’s different tune on solar. Barry O’Farrell’s NSW government has cracked down hard on gross feed-in tariffs for solar power generators. But he was whistling a different tune in 1999 as opposition leader, according to a YouTube clip posted by the NSW Liberals (which might not be up for long). According to O’Farrell then: “Gross feed-in […]
Crikey Says: Crikey says: a cautionary tale
Recommended reading: How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory.
How Gina Rinehart and co. are distorting the carbon tax debate
Shortly after Gina Rinehart bought into the Ten Network, along came The Bolt Report, Andrew Bolt’s platform for climate change scepticism. Throw in a few popular shockjocks and bam — the media’s view on carbon tax becomes somewhat distorted, writes Oliver Milman.
‘Unfinished business’: Keating calls for reversal of native land rights
Paul Keating delivered the annual Lowitja O’Donoghue Oration at Adelaide University last night, persuasively arguing for the reversal of laws requiring Aboriginal title claimants to establish association with their land. Here is the complete transcript. I knew Don Dunstan though not well. But I admired him for his ability to see through the conservative social […]
The Oz’s strange Newspoll interpretation
This week’s Newspoll confirms what everybody already knew: that no one likes Abbott or Gillard. The Australian however used a more favourable poll for Labor as an opportunity to criticise…Labor, writes Greg Jericho.
film reviews 
Of Gods and Men — grit, gravity and spectral beauty
The tension is implacably built in Of Gods and Men, a slowish, grim but gentle film about French monks in a monastery who get caught p in the Algerian Civil War, writes W H Chong.
Mandy Brett on why the world needs editors — but not books
In a recent talk given by Text Publishing editor Mandy Brett, Brett spoke about the effects new technology have on the book industry and explains how the world (often ungratefully) benefits from editors.
‘Unfinished business’ — Keating calls for reversal of native land rights laws
Paul Keating delivered the annual Lowitja O’Donoghue Oration at Adelaide University last night, persuasively arguing for the reversal of laws requiring Aboriginal title claimants to establish association with their land. Here is the transcript.
The man who built the Fox News fear factory
A former executive of Fox News describes the culture of fear there as “like the Soviet Union or China”, with chairman Roger Ailes ruling with an iron fist.
Law: scrapping safe sex gay ads is irresponsible
The Queensland Association for Healthy Communities’ decision to cancel safe sex advertisements featuring two gay men is deeply offensive, writes Benjamin Law in this letter of complaint to QAHC management.
