Close to 30 MPs had reported to federal parliament their constituents’ views on gay marriage as Crikey hit deadline, as they agreed to do under a Greens motion last November.
August, 2011
Crikey Says: Crikey says: the public have already spoken
Why interns should not be in charge of social media platforms
These days more and more companies are handing their social media duties to interns. This is a big no-no, explains Megan O’Neill, prompted by a short Xtranormal animation.
Who will be the next Warren Buffett?
US money manager Christopher Mittleman has nominated an heir to the Warren Buffett throne: billionaire hedge fund investor Phillip Falcone. But Falcone is a controversial choice, explains James Thomson.
Studying the art of snoozing in the sky
The act of snoozing while sitting upright shouldn’t be too hard, right? Yet plenty of people struggle to sleep on planes. High flyer Virginia Heffernan has some pointers.
theatre reviews 
Mountains Never Meet — Riverside Theatres, Sydney
Martin Del Amo’s Mountains Never Meet straddles the boundaries between visual installation art and performance. It’s great proof that less is more, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
aviation industry Joyce: No Qantas bid, formal or informal
Qantas group CEO Alan Joyce has told the full year financial results conference that there has been no takeover bid of any nature either formal or informal made to the company, writes Ben Sandilands.
Jack Layton’s beyond the grave message to Canadians
Canadian social democrat and Leader of the Opposition, Jack Layton, passed away this week after a battle with prostate cancer. His family have released an open letter Layton penned two days before his death.
Gaddafi compound falls to rebels
Crikey media wrap: After a day of heavy fighting, Libyan rebels stormed Colonel Gaddafi’s main Tripoli compound, looting weapons and celebrating the apparent defeat of Gaddafi atop the iconic gold statues of his regime.
war in Libya 
Gazing into the crystal ball of a post-Gaddafi Libya
With Colonel Gaddafi’s reign about to come to an end, what’s next for Libya? First up will be ensuring supply of basic services and food, writes Benjamin Cornford.
Facebook makes design tweaks in response to Google+
One of the selling points of using Google+ is a straightforward way of knowing who is reading what. In response Facebook are about to make a series of design change improvements, reports Juan Carlos Perez.
film reviews Friends with Benefits — surprisingly beneficial
Director Will Gluck’s Friends With Benefits, starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis, is a frothy old school with a modern twist rom-com about two friends who learn — surprise surprise — that sex comes with complications, writes Luke Buckmaster.
theatre reviews A Quiet Night In Rangoon — New Theatre, Sydney
The captivating set of A Quiet Night in Rangoon echoes the hue of the Saffron Revolution, which this play is essentially about. There are some compelling characters and insights into Buddhism, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
healthcare A mega-wrap of news about health, journalism and related innovations
Melissa Sweet has scoured the internet for the latest health-related news.
travel Be-Utah-ful
When Brigham Young stopped in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 and said ‘This is the place’ to his Mormon followers, thank goodness he was too worn out to head south, writes Tammi Jones.
Buttrose, Murdoch and the case of the cagey News Limited spokesman
The anonymous News Limited spokesman quoted by the ABC as refuting allegations by Ita Buttrose that Rupert Murdoch wanted her to have a person followed as part of an investigation for a story in the Sydney Tele is a cagey fellow, writes Richard Farmer.
Pedaling through the challenges of the bicycle helmet debate
The debate about the appropriateness of mandatory helmet laws has resurfaced recently. Almost every empirical claim has a tendency to be met with an equal and opposite counter-claim, writes Daniel Vujcich.
Power Index: how to fix a pre-selection ballot
Round up your mates, load up the truck and gain control of your favourite political party with Paul Barry’s branch-stacking guide.
What motivates the Parl house rallies?
Do the right-wing rallies that have proliferated here this year have anything to do with protest movements elsewhere? Well, one in particular…
Three population bubbles will cause demand, not supply, to skyrocket
There is a serious myth doing the rounds that the retirement of Australia’s baby boomers will trigger a massive new wave of housing supply that will swamp incoming demand and depress prices, writes Christopher Joye, of Property Observer
Libyans really might live happily ever after
As of this morning, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi may still be holed up in his compound in Tripoli, but there is no longer any doubt that the Libyan civil war has been fought and won.
Menadue: urgent need for a new approach to asylum seekers
We must safeguard Australia’s national interest by ensuring that the claims of refugees and asylum seekers to Australia’s protection are considered rigorously but with compassion, writes The Centre for Policy Development’s John Menadue.
Dobell members turn on Thomson in credit card saga
Grassroots unrest in Craig Thomson’s central coast seat of Dobell is beginning to stir as the ALP’s 100 local members start to react to the brothel brouhaha threatening to bring down the Gillard government.
Parkinson: coal is the new black
Indian-owned coal company Gujarat NRE warns that a carbon tax will cause stratospheric price rises for beer, bread, shirts and petrol, writes Giles Parkinson.
