Local paper covers big issue. One of the great things about local papers is the quirky little stories that pop up every now and then. From over in the UK: Front page of the day. New York’s Daily News is glad the US politicians finally signed a debt deal… Google accuses competitors of ‘bogus’ patents […]
August, 2011
Political snippets: Bad news for the tourism industry
The turn of a depressed tourism industry. Yesterday the retailers. Today the bad new from the Australian Bureau of Statistics is about the tourism industry. During June 2011, short-term visitor arrivals (473,700 movements) recorded a decrease of 2.6% compared with May 2011 (486,300 movements). This followed a monthly increase of 3.8% in April 2011 and […]
Video of the Day: Just one of seven billion
A fascinating — and typographically attractive — video by the National Geographic examining the world’s fast growing population, from where we live to how much energy we use.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Andrew Demetriou for parliament? Speculation over what might become of Christine Campbell in the Victorian state seat of Pascoe Vale continues to burble. The SDA-aligned cultural conservative was expected to retire before last year’s poll but stayed put, suffering a 6.5% swing against her. Under the party’s 2009 stability pact the seat is technically reserved […]
Crikey Says: Crikey says: don’t be tempted to fix retail
At lunchtime the Productivity Commission released its report on the retail industry and its struggles with the internet.
Win a double pass to see POM Wonderful Presents the Greatest Movie Ever Sold
To mark the Australian theatrical release of director Morgan Spurlock’s new ‘docbluster’ POM Wonderful Presents: the Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Cinetology gives readers the chance to win a double pass.
Happy 30th birthday, MTV
It made Beck want to smoke crack. Gave its name to a generation. And, yes, tried to kill the radio star. MTV turns 30 years old this week, join Neil Walker as he celebrates the music channel.
Great fast rail packaging, but what is inside?
The government has flashed the wrappings but not the contents of the package of its high speed rail study for a Brisbane-Melbourne link. But the study will be revealed today, writes Ben Sandilands.
The hospital reform deal merits congratulations
Health professionals and patients alike breathed a sigh of relief when Julia Gillard announced the hospitals deal with the states. It was a watering down of the original proposal but no cave-in, writes health director Robert Wells.
Galaxy: 56-44 to Coalition
The latest Galaxy federal poll echoes other recent polling, with the Coalition leading 56-44 in the two-party preferred. Meanwhile, only 37% support a carbon tax, writes William Bowe.
PHOTO GALLERY 
Inside secretive North Korea
As part of Associated Press’s attempts to gain more access to the quiet communist nation of North Korea, photographer David Guttenfelder was given an orchestrated-but-fascinating tour.
podcast Canberra Calling: The Crikey cure for all that ailes you podcast
Crikey’s Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane and Crikey deputy editor Jason Whittaker discuss the the latest COAG health reform agreement and how the politics will play out.
Nixon book launch: Adler eavesdrops on a revealing Hun news conference
The old Hard Rock cafe might seem like a weird spot for a book launch, but it seemed fitting for the bludgeoning News Limited journos received this morning at the launch of Christine Nixon’s Fair Cop at the ”Bourke Room” at Melbourne’s Windsor Hotel. With the Prime Minister looking on, Melbourne University Press publisher Louise Adler took the opportunity to hit back at News following […]
Fukushima disaster: worse than Hiroshima
More gravely serious truths about the severity of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster following the earthquake and tsunami of March 11 have emerged.
New-look Chavez foreshadows change in Venezuela
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez yesterday showed off his new look — a shaved head due to the chemotherapy treatment he has been undergoing for an unspecified cancer. If he goes, no one really knows what would happen.
Time for a ministerial meetings register — starting with media execs
If the Cameron government is prepared to be open about whom its ministers meet, so can the Gillard government, write Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer.
Health reform: how to get less of what may not be best for us
With so many forces driving more and more health spending, surely it’s time you set up The Less is More Institute to identify and advocate for initiatives to reduce the use of health services that are unnecessary, harmful or not good value.
Outsourcing the arts at Aunty: the problem with commissioning
ABC TV’s flagship program Art Nation has been axed and 15 people have also been reportedly offered redundancies. So what does that mean for arts programming, asks Nicholas Pickard?
Mortgage brokers’ commissions … now Choice puts its hand out
After a lifetime of howling protest about the commissions that mortgage brokers make, the Australian Consumer Association — aka Choice — is helping itself to some of those commissions, writes Nicholas Gruen, CEO of Lateral Economic.
Digital Pearl Harbors make for a good year for the cyber defence industry
Cyber Pearl Harbors and digital Blackwaters mean the cyber defence industry is on the cusp of a boom.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The GM food debate is nonsense
Crikey readers have their say.
The quality journalism project: now crossing to Leigh Sales
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. ABC’s 7.30 host Leigh Sales divulges her media diet.
