Melbourne OccupiedThere were around a thousand people in Melbourne City Square this morning, estimates Jeff Sparrow, before confrontation unfolded. It will take time for the Occupy movement to develop a program but that’s to be expected.
October, 2011
aviation industry 
A closer look at Qantas tourism strike claims
Comments being made about sponsor Qantas’s industrial problems by Tourism and Transport Forum chief executive John Lee need to be critiqued, writes Ben Sandilands.
Holy smokes! Could Batman really be joining Occupy Wall Street?
Numerous celebrities have visited the Occupy Wall Street protests, but one decidedly more heroic Hollywood icon might be on his way: Batman, writes Luke Buckmaster.
The death of Gaddafi
Crikey media wrap: Muammar Gaddafi, the dictator that ruled Libya for over four decades, is dead. What now for Libya?
Gaddafi dead 
Who shot Gaddafi?
Gruesome images of Muammar Gaddafi’s bullet-ridden body quickly spread across the internet minutes after his death. Who pulled the trigger? asks Tim Gaynor and Taha Zargoun.
The future begins for The Oz on Monday
A paywall will descend on Monday at The Australian, a move News Limited CEO John Hartigan says will “pioneer the way Australians consume media”.
Nick Greiner: NSW’s ex-Liberal Premier is our past and future king
If there’s one man who can really change the face of Sydney it’s former Liberal premier Nick Greiner. As head of Infrastructure NSW he looks set to drive all the state’s most important decisions, writes Paul Barry.
Free tickets to see film The Tall Man
The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island, a tropical paradise in Australia’s Far North. Based on the award-winning book by Chloe Hooper, it’s a gripping and provocative film that exposes the inescapable complexities of Australia’s racial politics, and a haunting moral puzzle that no viewer will forget. And Crikey has free double passes […]
Gaddafi dead 
How world leaders responded to Gaddafi’s death
Aj Jazeera captures how world leaders and organisations have responded to Muammar Gaddafi’s death, including reactions from Barack Obama and Silvio Berlusconi.
Gaddafi is dead (or is he?): how Australian media responded
By 12:13am this morning Aj Jazeea broke the news that Gaddafi was dead. Nearly two hours later, The Oz and the ABC caught on. NAJ Taylor captures how the story unfolded in Australia and the UK.
travel New York, how do I love thee
There are 14 million people in the United States currently looking for work. But that’s not enough to stop Caroline Regidor moving to the city of dreams to hang out with artists, hipsters and Occupy Wall Street protestors.
podcast Canberra Calling: The blood pledge podcast
Crikey’s political podcast returns after a brief hiatus with Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane joining Crikey editor Sophie Black to discuss the tumultuous week in politics following the passage of the Gillard government’s clean energy legislation.
Daily Proposition: Christmas in October — a festive Shiraz
Christmas has lobbed early. The Oomoo Sparkling Shiraz was decidedly festive — even with a Middle Eastern lamb tart as accompaniment.
Alan Jones turns up the heat on fracking
Alan Jones’s rhetoric on coal seam gas is indistinguishable from that coming from the Occupy movement.
Provocative Abbott on the money with China remarks
China will continue to buy our commodities regardless of whether we sign any broader economic agreement with it or not, writes Dr John Lee, from the Centre for International Security Studies, Sydney University.
Shalit swap a sign of failing peace hopes
This week’s celebrations for prisoner swaps are unable to hide the fact that Middle East peace seems further away than ever.
Bye George (Negus), it wasn’t that bad, just not enough viewers
6:30 with George Negus died a slow death by viewer indifference. Negus, however, said that at least Ten had a go and the product he fronted most nights wasn’t that bad.
Corporate personhood — and a right to privacy?
The controversial issue of human rights for corporations took an unexpected turn this week in Britain.
Behind the corporate veil of the brothel industry
The legal brothel operator at the centre of sex trafficking allegations detailed on Four Corners does not hold the brothel licence, writes Chris Seage, tax consultant, former ATO audit manager and owner of Brothel Busters.
Asylum seekers: the sinking of SIEV X and the boats that never make it here
Australians have a right to know the true causes of these very occasional tragic failures, in our usually very safe national intelligence-based detection and interception system, writes former diplomat Tony Kevin.
Maley: the EU debt clock ticks down
With time fast running out, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy again held emergency talks overnight in an attempt to settle their differences before Sunday’s crucial summit of European political chiefs.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Brand Abbott’s onto a winner
Abbott v Putin: Peter Lloyd writes: Re “Abbott v Putin: it’s a man-off” (yesterday, item 11). David Ritter’s article will prove to be the most relevant Crikey analysis of all of the Liberal leader’s impending election success. It is an interesting comparison with Bernard Keane’s item, “Labor Will Return to the Rudd Brand”, which compares the […]
How ASIO’s non-existent war on illegal fishing is faring
ASIO’s powers were expanded earlier this year, we were told, to help combat illegal fishing. So this week ASIO was asked how the war on illegal fishing was faring …
