Tiger Airways has removed Alice Springs, Darwin, Canberra, Cairns, Hobart, Mackay, Melbourne (Avalon), Rockhampton and Sunshine Coast from the drop down booking menus on its site, writes Ben Sandilands.
August, 2011
The fear infecting global markets
Crikey media wrap: If you were unsure of the magnitude of the current markets crash and downgrade of the US credit rating, the weekend’s newspaper front pages from around the world drill the message home pretty quickly.
‘I will have the Police shoot your Dog’ — animal management in the NT
Judging from a sign put up in Nyirripi, a small township in the Tanami desert, there are people in positions of power in remote townships who think that the bullet from the gun of the local cop is an effective means of animal control, writes Bob Gosford.
Conroy’s cutting remarks ruffle feathers at ABC
There is consternation and some pissed-offedness within the senior management at the ABC this morning over Senator Stephen Conroy’s unforced remarks to ABCNews24 yesterday.
High-speed rail: pulling a very fast one on capital
The HSR study relies on fast trains not having to cover their costs.
PC report: no help coming for retailers
On the surface, the draft report from the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into the structure of the retail sector appears to have some good news. Except for one thing — there is little chance any of these changes will happen quickly.
Mayne: markets crash but we’ll be OK
Australia’s three great advantages in this situation are our relatively high official interest, the best ever terms of trade and gross federal government debt of only $195 billion.
Joe, onions aside, we should keep as much debt on issue as possible
Sometimes you have to wonder if Joe Hockey, the putative federal treasurer if the Gillard mob loses power, really has a handle on what’s going on.
Welcome to the most expensive music festival in the world
While headliners at last weekend’s Splendour in the Grass festival, Kanye West and Coldplay, would have walked away with tidy sums and an adoring crowd ringing in their ears, for the vast majority the equation didn’t seem to stack up.
Why Turnbull stays put and keeps quiet (sort of)
Malcolm Turnbull is determined to stick it out.
Flood victim’s heartbreak: ‘don’t be complacent about the risk’
No one had higher stakes in the findings of the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry than Grantham father Matthew Keep, who lost three family members at Grantham that terrible January day, writes Amanda Gearing.
Online won’t destroy retail, it’ll give us money to spend locally
Online shopping is, for the first time, allowing Australians to access a genuinely competitive marketplace and the result is customers making big savings, writes Richard Denniss, executive director of The Australia Institute.
Measuring Moran’s legacy inside and outside the public service
Terry Moran leaves behind a healthier, more independent public service — but the GFC was his key test.
Stance on Tasmanian forests putting $millions at risk
The deal to save Tasmanian forests has seen the logging and mining industry remain determined that these forests are not converted into national parks and “locked up” — and the Prime Minister Julia Gillard seems to agree, writes Crikey naturalist Lionel Elmore.
Sideshow Alley: Sideshow Alley: hold the front page for hair extensions
The outright winner of this week’s Sideshow Alley was Kristina Keneally and her new mullet, which presented a field day for headline writers.
Building industry watchdog slammed over sham contracted migrants
An economics and employment expert has lashed out at the government’s construction industry watchdog, saying the body ineffectively regulates migrant worker mistreatment through sham contracting, writes Crikey intern Katie Weiss.
What do we want from arts media?
Some scant research is beginning to reveal that arts journalism runs on objectives and principles that are quite different to those of conventional journalism, writes Lucinda Strahan, a lecturer at the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Come on Aunty, why can’t you appeal to the baby boomers?
ABC arts funding: Sharon Grey writes: Re “Outsourcing the arts at Aunty: the problem with commissioning” (Wednesday, Item 2). One of John Howard’s gifts that seems to keep on giving appears to have been the appointment of Maurice Newman to chair the ABC in January 2007. Should anyone care enough in future to write about […]
Media briefs: Age head-hunting … AUSTAR misled …
After an investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, pay TV and internet provider AUSTAR admitted “its contracts were likely to mislead consumers and breach Australian Consumer Law.” Plus other media news of the day.
Political snippets: Richard Farmer’s chunky bits
An unfortunate piece of timing. There’s probably never such a thing as a good time for a government to talk about taxation. For the public the only good change is a reduction. Talk of tax increases and new taxes, even taxes they personally won’t have to pay, worry people. The planned taxes Australia is soon […]
Video of the Day: Walk the world in one minute
What does 44 days in 11 countries look like in one sharply edited video? Three Aussie fellas went on an epic global adventure in the attempt to make three short films. This is one of them. MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Not everyone sad to see Moran go. Could a “collective sigh of relief” be heard in the nation’s capital yesterday with the announcement Terry Moran was stepping down as the secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet? That’s one take from a Canberra insider, who reckons Moran was responsible for “stuffing the upper […]
Crikey Says: Crikey says: asking the unanswerable
Tomorrow, Grantham resident Matthew Keep and his wife Stacy will be among 70 families who draw a new block of land on the high side of the town in Australia’s first land swap.
