Shamed and shackled, Tiger will start with limited Melbourne-Sydney flights on Friday with three flights offering one way fares at $119.95, $59.95 and $139.95, reports Ben Sandilands.
August, 2011
Ricky Retire-Safe presents: Your Money or Your Life
Tired of tuning into the same-old same-old TV reports about the current state of our economic markets? Time to freshen the palate with Mr Denmore’s all new media show/circus.
Crikey Says: The government should channel Shorten’s anger
“The treatment of people with impairment in Australia is a disgrace,” said Bill Shorten last year. The time to end the exile for Australians with disabilities is now.
PHOTO GALLERY 
A century of cycle-lution
How has the humble bicycle evolved over the past 100 years? Vanity Fair chronicles its many different forms, from the ‘Sironval Sportplex’ in the 30s to the lightweight carbon-composite ‘Lotus Sport’ from the 90s.
The GFC didn’t come back — it never went away
After the collapse of the US sub-prime mortgage bubble the GFC spread like a virus over the global horizon. Some commentators are saying it’s back but they’re missing the point. It never went away, writes Ben Eltham.
The stock exchange roller coaster
Ten days gone and the S&P 500 index from the United States for August has three entries in the Top 40 biggest daily declines since 1950. Richard Farmer has all the scary numbers.
Disability insurance: a monumental day for all
Crikey media wrap: Disability funding in this country is to be overhauled, with a new national disability insurance scheme to offer blanket coverage for all Australians living with a disability.
Redundant in London: a job interview marred by a simple faux pas
You can take the girl out of Australia but you can’t take the Australia out of the girl. A prospective London employer was interviewing out of work Aussie expat Amanda Austen in London, until Austen mentioned the word “serviette…”
MDA’s ‘amazing’ journey into social media
Limited funding has restricted the Media Doctor Australia (MDA) website’s ability to actively promote its monitoring of health news in Australia. In May the team tapped into Twitter and Facebook. The diagnosis? There’s been incredible results, says Justine Smith and Amanda Wilson.
Book review clichés demystified
Confused by what ‘ambitious’ means in a literary book review? It just means the reviewer didn’t finish the book, says Eric Jett and Alex Shephard, as they dispel the most common clichés from the literary reviewing world.
Where will Japan’s radioactive waste go?
It’s been five months since the devastating Japan earthquake and resulting tsunami and most of the clean-up is complete. But is chucking dirt contaminated with nuclear waste just a few feet underground a viable long-term solution?
Hope for FreezaCentral in Ted Baillieu rock pitch
Organisers of the axed FreezaCentral rock mentoring program are confident of a reprieve in next year’s Victorian budget as Premier Ted Baillieu moves to bed down its credentials as a live music saviour.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: riotous London when police couldn’t put the kettle on
You can have a life of sorts on European welfare. You can have nearly none on UK welfare, and cutting up rough allows that the feeling of being alive to be recovered for a moment.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes: chomping away at blockbuster brilliance
Ignore, if you can, any preconceived notions you have about the Planet of the Apes movies. Director Rupert Wyatt makes a mockery of all their monkey business by creating the biggest artistic surprise of cinema in 2011, says Luke Buckmaster.
Cheryl Kernot: the bleakness of contemporary Britain
Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron and his ministers are keen to reduce this to “sheer criminality” and the actions most certainly are. But it’s a fair bet that such behaviour also has its roots in the failure of contemporary political systems, policy responses and other contemporary cultural values, writes Cheryl Kernot, who worked for a time at the UK School for Social Entrepreneurs.
Mayne: News Corp board leaks as Rupert prepares to front analysts
The News Corp board met for more than 10 hours over the past two days in Los Angeles in what was the first opportunity for a face-to-face discussion about the hacking scandal and governance crisis that has engulfed the company.
Government hastens slowly on disability care and insurance
The Productivity Commission has released ita final report on disability, and the government is in no rush to implement it.
Mental health & housing: the public health crisis no one wants to know about
Mental health workers interviewed by the ACIJ say the conditions endured by mentally ill people in public housing are now a major public health problem, report Jacqueline Le, Michael Davis, Veronika Pitrová and Simona Suciu.
Tiger to fly again, but given losses, what about fare hikes?
It will be a much leaner Tiger than before, concentrating on a small range of major domestic routes including Sydney-Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and the Gold Coast but details of fares and frequencies have not yet been released.
Banks and competition … what competition?
Where’s the competition in banking that the banks and their industry mouthpiece say is intensifying?
London riots: the good and bad of social media
A Facebook page set up as a tribute turned into a call to action to protest Duggan’s death. Crikey intern Sophie Malcolm tracked the riots, and the public reaction, online…
London riots: the (social) media is to blame, apparently
According to some British media, Twitter was responsible for the London riots. We’ve been here before.
Time to support changes to private health insurance subsidy
A system that has people who do not hold private health insurance subsidising those who do is simply inequitable and should be changed, write Helen Keleher, Peter Sainsbury, Stephen Leeder, Fran Baum
The quality journalism project: the heart of The Oz, Chris Mitchell
Crikey picks the brains of some of Australia’s most respected journalists, editors and producers to find out what great journalism means to them and where they go to get it. Editor-in-Chief of The Australian Chris Mitchell, divulges his media diet.
The govt department with a census of humour
Statistics aren’t known for being sexy. Or funny. So how was the 2011 Census Twitter account allowed to be so cheeky? Meet David McHugh, the man behind the account.
