How I got a job in the middle of a national recessionA collection of Slate readers explain how they managed to cope with long-term unemployment during a recession by finding smart techniques to get hired again.
July, 2011
Denniss: my tactics for debating Monckton
Only the media can explain why they have given so much attention to extreme and ill-informed views about climate change and choose not to give a similar platform to a range of other conspiracy theorists, writes Dr Richard Denniss.
Mayne: great TV, but no smoking gun in Murdochs’ testimony
Seven hours of gripping evidence was the best advertisement you’ll ever see for an equivalent federal parliamentary committee to fully investigate the regulation, ethics, relationships and ownership of Australia’s media.
Child exploitation material filters … same policy, different activities
Paranoia is such a strong word. But I sometimes wonder whether “systematised delusions of a persecutory nature” do permeate the ranks of those most virulently opposed to the Australian government’s internet censorship policies.
Feel that? The media power axis just shifted
What many have suspected is now made clear. Rupert Murdoch is not always watching. His hand is no longer firmly on the tiller. He is losing, or has lost, his touch.
Pity the Murdochs, innocents lost in a world of knaves and fools
The performance of Rupert and James Murdoch before a Commons committee presents News Corp shareholders with a terrible dilemma.
Postcard from a north Qld detention centre
Men held at the Scherger Immigration Detention Centre are concerned about the length of time taken for decisions and the arbitrary nature of the refugee process, writes Pamela Curr, campaign co-ordinator at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Maley: US banks flailing in a sea of misery
Disappointing profit results released overnight highlight the struggle US banks are facing, writes Karen Maley.
MacKerras: forget byelections … we’re off to polls in October 2013
The current Parliament will run its full three-year term.
Danby: despite a threat of war, South Sudan basks in freedom
After 60 years of post-colonial struggle against the Arab and to some extent Islamist north, the people of the new Republic of South Sudan are free, writes Michael Danby, federal MP for Melbourne Ports
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: More News of the World fallout
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: Markets up as US agrees on deficit reduction plan
Stocks lifted after Obama said a bipartisan group of Senators had agreed to a deficit-reduction plan that features tough spending cuts and a revenue component.
Daily Proposition: A tale of Boks and the World Cup
With the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand, well-known journalist Dan Retief has produced a seminal work on the comp and the part the Springboks have played in it from their entry in 1995. Simon Burrow recommends.
Media briefs: Rupert’s staff message … WSJ journos react …
Not even The Guardian could resist the pie reference, as Britain’s newspapers lapped up the Murdoch testimony. Plus, other media news.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: NotW scandal steals carbon tax oxygen in Oz media
The News of the World controversy certainly took some of the coverage away from the carbon price this week.
Political snippets: Headlines galores as Murdoch humbled
The line had all the polish of being rehearsed — one of the few from Rupert Murdoch last night that did.
Video of the Day: The Murdochs get grilled
Rupert and James Murdoch get grilled by the UK Commons culture committee, with special mention to MP Tom Watson for his badgering questions to Rupert.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Fairfax looks at debt. We hear growing speculation around financial markets that the flailing share price and gloomy advertising outlook at Fairfax Media is pushing the company towards some kind of debt refinancing. Watch this space. Queen for hospital opening. Details of Queen Elizabeth’s tour to Australia in October are yet to be announced, but […]
Crikey Says: Crikey says: a primer on accountability
The Murdochs and the directors of News Corporation have now discovered that moral hazard is not merely a theory conjured up by economists, but a real-world phenomenon that has been at work within their company for years.
Horn of Africa to be declared official famine zone
The humanitarian situation in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia is so dire — with an estimated 11 million urgently in need of food — that one UN official says it’s 99% certain that a full-scale famine situation will be declared tomorrow.
Rupert Murdoch’s letter to all News Limited staff
The following message from Rupert Murdoch just landed in all News Limited employees’ inboxes, reports Margaret Simons.
