Crikey media wrap: After 31 different meetings of public consultation across the state, the interim report of the inquiry into the 2011 Queensland floods was handed down yesterday to Premier Anna Bligh.
August, 2011
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The children of Russia’s nouveau riche
A fascinating look at the wealthiest children in Russia, where little girls play football in the marble ballrooms in their homes and boys play with Kalashnikovs in their opulent bedrooms.
Social networking essential link for asylum seekers
Facebook has become a key form of communication for detention detainees, writes freelance journalist Greg Foyster.
Essential: opposition to Malaysian Solution grows
Opposition to the Malaysian Solution has spiked, and Labor’s carbon pricing campaign isn’t working.
Tiger likely to get new boss, new name
Tiger Airways will have a new Australian CEO within about a month, and possibly a new name to go with it.
Carbon cops run amok in a world of spin
The carbon price “debate” shows the effects of decades of spin. “Carbon cops”, busting down your front door and scaring the kids in pursuit of unauthorised emissions, had been invented by the Coalition.
Turkish generals fire their last shot
Turkey’s politicians, with very different experience, know that they have to hold the line.
The long and costly struggle for native title recognition
The Gunditjmara and Eastern Maar indigenous community won native title claims in south-east Victoria last week, but lessons learnt from previous wins show a long road still lies ahead.
Rann’s desperate legacy brought him undone
While SA Premier Mike Rann hopes the massive mine at Olympic Dam will save him, it was a fledgling uranium prospect at Arkaroola that did him in, writes Kevin Naughton of InDaily.
Privacy Eye: media paranoia distorting facts on privacy tort
The media as a whole have got to get over their desperate paranoia, writes Roger Clark, chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation
Gottliebsen: hurtling towards a retail cliff
Non-food retailing, which employs 800,000 Australians, is in deep trouble, writes Robert Gottliebsen of Business Spectator.
Poll Bludger: Rann an indulgence Labor could no longer afford
The spectacle of Australia’s longest-serving Premier announcing his retirement after a tap on the shoulder from a little-known union official has excited much comparison with Labor’s recent leadership shenanigans federally and in New South Wales
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The first rule of journalism
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: Markets rally on US debt deal
The US has reached a debt deal. The rally compares to the Futures this morning down 3 on the back of Wall St down 96 on Friday.
Media briefs: Barnaby gets square … Amy from AAMI … phone hacking latest …
We don’t normally quote liberally from pollie press releases, but Barnaby Joyce’s swipe at The Australian Financial Review this morning over its front-page typo is a fair cop. Plus other media news of the day.
Political snippets: New house sales on the wane
The almost daily predictions of an interest rate rise seems to be having an impact on sales of new houses.
Video of the Day: The debt ceiling rap
A whopping US$14 trillion debt, but rappers still need their Cristal champagne.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Bureaucratic Dixers. Are the bureaucrats turning on the NSW government already? A Crikey reader reports: “I’ve got a few friends still working in the NSW public sector. My experience is that most of them, regardless of their political leanings, were looking forward to a change of management given the entrenched nepotism that had filled the […]
Crikey Says: Crikey says: Washington’s economic policy paralysis
Given an election year is just five months away, there’s no evidence the economic policy paralysis in Washington DC will not get a lot worse before it gets better — assuming it ever does.
