At a small gallery situated on the western edge of Darwin, Bob Gosford and around 100 other art lovers crammed in to view ZING!, the first major show outside Alice Springs for artist and paintaholic Sarah Brown.
July, 2011
Garnaut: ‘This is a strong climate change policy package’
Professor Ross Garnaut has described Labor’s carbon price package a “strong climate change policy” in a statement that contrasts markedly with his assessment of the CPRS.
Is Tiger’s best option to pack up shop?
The least painful way for Tiger’s owners to solve their Australian problems may be to sell the airline rather than tickets, writes Ben Sandilands.
Carbon tax: key changes reflect the Greens, Garnaut
There are some key changes from Rudd’s CPRS that reflect both the influence of the Greens and Ross Garnaut in its development.
Carbon tax: the policy and the politics
This is a better package than the CPRS it is so closely modelled on, but not by a lot. It’s certainly as voter-friendly a policy as pricing carbon was ever going to be.
Carbon tax: Gillard’s ‘Clean Energy Future’ at a glance
The government has announced its “Clean Energy Future” package to commence from July 1, 2012. These are the details at a glance.
Media regulation review: groundbreaking, eventually changing everything
Revolutionary change to media regulation in Australia is the likely outcome of the current convergence review, something made clear in a discussion paper issued earlier this week.
Cynical weakness v economic
irrationalism
The Government appears unconvinced it should be in power, and the Opposition will say anything, no matter how ridiculous, to confirm that.
The end of the World isn’t the end of the matter
Tonight, News Corp employees all over the world are thinking of their mortgages, and feeling their necks.
NotW: Hartigan weighs in … but more boots to drop, some of them here
Today John Hartigan, the CEO of News Limited — the Australian arm of the international empire — weighed in with a statement on the News of the World debacle.
Malaysian PM to reformers: ‘Crushed bodies, broken bones, dead bodies’
The Malaysian government is deploying all of the tactics seen from Middle-Eastern dictators in an attempt to suppress the Bersih 2.0 movement
Baillieu’s ‘carbon pain’ claims based on quicksand
Are the Baillieu Government and the Herald Sun pulling the wool over the eyes of the public when it comes to the impact on a carbon tax?
Deported singing gran heading back for another crack at the UK
The Daily Mirror headed the story “Ban on singing gran is off-key” after Maureen Lum was deported from the UK … but she’s heading back for another try, writes journalist Margaretta Pos
$3.2b later, Ferguson loses in the ARENA of renewables
Martin Ferguson’s department has been stripped of responsibility for billions in renewables programs as the Greens demand greater certainty for the sector.
Parkinson: carbon chaos in Canberra
There is good reason why the government did not release the details of its carbon pricing package before the weekend, writes Giles Parkinson, of Climate Spectator.
What was Tiger’s original purpose and what happens now?
Tiger, for consumers, was hell. It was unreliable, unresponsive and tricky to use.
Maley: prelude to a global share sell-off …
Could this week’s move by global central banks to nudge up interest rates be the prelude to a global sharemarket sell-off?, writes Karen Maley, of Business Spectator.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The News news that News ignored
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: US markets keep kicking goals
The S&P 500 closed up 1.1%, its highest level since May 10 and is now up 6.7% over past eight days.
Daily Proposition: devilishly perfect theatre experience
You mightn’t know that ‘faust’ is Latin for lucky, or auspicious. There’s more than a little irony, then, in Christopher Marlowe’s application of the word, a name, for his intellectually gifted character. Was it that Marlowe had a disdain for academia, seeing how clueless even, or especially, the most educated can be? We can probably […]
Media briefs: NotW scandal — the front pages … Coulson arrest? … Brooks’ rise …
Front Page of the Day … Andy Coulson to be arrested over phone hacking tomorrow … Rebekah Brooks’ tenacious rise to the top … Unethical behavour will not be tolerated: Hartigan … Fox News covers NotW … eventually …
Political snippets: Labor’s problem is the messenger, not the message
Perhaps the last thing the Government should be doing is persuading as many networks as possible to give her peak hour viewing on the most watched television night of the week.
Video of the Day: The art of poetry bombing
Follow Miami resident Agustina Woodgate as she introduces viewers to “poetry bombing”: the art of visiting op-shops and surreptitiously sewing poetry into as many clothes as possible.
