Atop the roof of Darwin’s Northern Immigration Detention Centre (NIDC), Habib Habiburahman sits in protest. He has entered day five of a hunger strike in an attempt to raise awareness of his situation after 18 months in indefinite detention as an asylum seeker, writes Nigel O’Connor.
June, 2011
Reith on track to lead the Libs — despite his best efforts
Indications are that the Liberal Party will elect former minister and deputy leader Peter Reith as its new federal president at tomorrow’s federal council meeting.
No recovery for a leader too much like the man she knifed
Julia Gillard has not been able to give voters a sense of who she is beyond the woman who knifed Kevin Rudd.
Sun King survival tips: what it takes to be a Murdoch man
There’s a long history when it comes to Rupert Murdoch’s preferred choice of editors and style of journalism and control.
Senate inquiry takes tougher approach on pilot training, safety
In lay language, the Senate inquiry into pilot training and airline safety has made a set of recommendations that would put Australia on the same page as American lawmakers in resisting the dangerous things desperate airlines have been doing to cut corners.
Parting shots: Fielding’s teary Senate farewell, plus Hutchins, Hurley
It’s that time of the six-year electoral Senate cycle again, where departing senators give their valedictory speeches outlining what they’ve accomplished and how their political dreams were crushed, delivered with a hefty dose of nostalgia, wisdom and a dig at their foes. We’ve been covering these speeches as they come out and in the current […]
Guy Rundle: Rundle: will Mad Monk be brought low by madder Monckton?
Moncktongate has now become a political and moral test for Tony Abbott, whose principal political action to date has been to exile climate-change denialism from the political mainstream.
Kids kickboxing: government inaction has it down for the count
For the Queensland government to now express outrage about kickboxing is a joke, writes former Crikey staffer Ruth Brown.
Cox: new intervention proposals … same old, same old
A new consultation process on more intervention proposals does not please the many critics of the current version’s costly failures.
Coup anniversary: where are they now?
Paul Barry and Matthew Knott look back at the main players in the Night of the Long Knives: where are they now?
Morning Market Report: European and US markets close down
The Dow Jones closed down 59 overnight having been down 235 at worst sending European markets down close to 2%.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Bitcoins don’t equal a free lunch
Crikey readers have their say.
Media briefs: Media briefs: Henderson’s twist … SMH’s Zoo moment … NoW phone hack arrest …
In today’s Media Briefs: Henderson twisting the quotes … Boobs and tennis: the SMH footage … Phone-hacking investigation: arrested woman ‘may have written for News of the World and more …
Political snippets: A very fair question for the Prime Minister
Prime Minister Julia Gillard knows how to ask a fair question. It’s a pity she doesn’t know how to answer it.
Video of the Day: The Vancouver riot couple pre-kiss
A recently emerged video of the Vancouver riots shows the couple from the now iconic riot kiss photo caught in the police surge, falling to the ground and then being hit by police batons, leaving the female clearly distressed. The video corroborates with the story told by the couple after some claimed it had been staged.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Overhead: ‘destroying the NBN’. Crikey’s Canberra spies report former Australian business writer turned Malcolm Turnbull adviser Stephen Ellis bragging to his table at last week’s Mid-Winter Ball that he had placed current Australian business writer Anthony Klan firmly on the drip over his boss’s desire to “destroy” the National Broadband Network. The Mike Quiqley Alcatel […]
Jose Antonio Vargas: I’m an illegal immigrant
Pulitzer Prize journalist Jose Antonio Vargas reveals that he is an undocumented migrant in the US, arriving on a fake passport as a child and never receiving legal status despite decades of living in the States.
X-Men to contemplate gay teen suicide
The ‘mutant’ characters in Marvel’s X-Men comic book series have often been used as symbols of prejudice. So it’s not unusual that a bold upcoming edition will raise issues about gay teen suicide, reports SameSame.
Pobje: Why does everybody think Labor is knackered?
Labor is getting thumped by the media and in the polls, but when it comes to complex issues and long term reform people should be patient. A humane carbon-neutral country is in the mail, writes Ben Pobje.
Sales: Oz detention centres worse than Guantanamo
Journalist Leigh Sales was refused visitation rights to a detention centre in Australia because of “security issues”, although she visited Guantanamo Bay prison twice. Why are detention centres so surrounded in secrecy?
film reviews 
Mr. Popper’s Penguins — lukewarm comedy
Adapted from a best-selling children’s book written in the 1930’s, Jim Carrey’s latest comedy Mr. Popper’s Penguins is an uninspiring been-there-done-that moral fable that isn’t particularly funny or entertaining, writes Luke Buckmaster.
