Is the Tiger Airways crisis all about air fares being too cheap to support safe air travel, or is it really about something else? Ben Sandilands investigates.
July, 2011
Why Tiger faces Australian
extinction
The CASA grounding of Tiger Airways is not just about a suspension of its flights until next Saturday. It’s also about whether Tiger can maintain the confidence and trust of CASA and the public, writes Ben Sandilands.
Tiger busts minimum altitudes again, this time near Avalon
Tiger Airways in under investigation by the ATSB for another illegally low flight, this time near Avalon Airport on Thursday night. It is already under scrutiny for an incident on June 7 at Melbourne Airport, writes Ben Sandilands.
If Facebook killed Myspace will Google+ kill THE social network?
Facebook is THE Social Network, right? Yeah, there was a movie. We all agreed! Last week. But not if the recently launched Google has launched Google+ (pronounced “Google Plus”) has anything to do with it.
Exposed! The secret Crikey ABC emails the Herald Sun wants you to see
A Herald Sun journalist has lodged a Freedom of Information request with the ABC for all emails and other correspondence between me, other Crikey staff and Mark Scott and the ABC’s public relations people.
Wankley Awards: Stefanovic ‘sex stance’ in News Ltd state-of-origin wars
There’s nothing like a good state-of-origin war between The Courier Mail and The Daily Telegraph. But when a TV star calls for a fellow employee to withholding bedroom favours from his boss, you know a Wankley is just around the corner.
Expect the unexpected from a Greener Senate
It has taken the best part of a year, but the full consequences of last August’s election have now played out. History tells us to expect the unexpected.
Vic Young Labor stoush: “this isn’t Super Mario Brothers…this is democracy”
The son of Australia’s most powerful unionist says he is poised to snare the glittering prize of president of Victorian Young Labor as the intra-Right stoush heads to the ALP’s supreme governing body.
DHS spin doctor ‘loses the plot’, vows to sue
The Victorian Department of Human Services’ most senior spin doctor, Kevin Broadribb, has vowed to sue Crikey in an extraordinary on-the-record phone call spray last night.
Can we extract some good from whingenomics?
Pandering to voters’ conviction they face big cost of living increases hasn’t worked so far. Maybe it’s time for a new approach.
Is the iPhone why Gen Y loves public transport?
The “mystery factor” driving faster patronage growth on public transport may be Gen Y’s enthusiasm for staying connected through smartphones, writes Alan Davies, of The Melbourne Urbanist blog.
Parkinson: low-carbon economy not as hard as it looks
Our hung parliament presented, for the first time in living memory, an opportunity to deal with the substantive policy issues ignored in the campaign, writes Giles Parkinson of Climate Spectator.
The massive indigenous employment gap stagnates
How much more evidence that indigenous employment policies are not working will the Gillard government need before it changes its disastrous policy, write Professor Jon Altman and Dr Nicholas Biddle from the Australian National University.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
The Hun gets down to business. Following on from Crikey’s item “Business on the slide at Herald Sun” news just to hand from a well placed insider that Peter Taylor is the new Herald Sun business editor and State Rounds chief Stephen McMahon is returning to the section as deputy. A most excellent education. Word […]
Animal slaughter: the world isn’t all about us
There was something slightly obscene about a majority of Australians — bogans and latte sippers united — reaction to the clear brutality in some Indonesian slaughterhouses.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Foreign ownership of Australian land is not new
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: US markets continue streak
US markets have biggest four-day gain since September.
Political snippets: A day of shame for the Australian Reserve Bank.
Australia has its first ever prosecution under foreign bribery legislation.
Video of the Day: When carp attack
Fishing is rarely as easy or as exhilarating than this family’s encounter with flying carp in Spoon River, Illinois.
Crikey Says: Beware the vengeful goblins
The Herald Sun infantilised its readers by warning them today of “vengeful goblins” and how Brown was a “threat to democracy”.
