Brands are critical to Prime Ministers and Julia Gillard’s brand is very likely terminally damaged. There’s only one viable brand in Labor ranks.
October, 2011
Hun comments reveal: News Corp 4th worst performer in ASX50
The short-term performance of News Corp might look OK, but a longer-term horizon tells a very different story.
Double-page ‘correction’ for Bolt’s racial discrimination
The Herald Sun has been ordered to publish two humiliating double-page corrections spelling out why two of Andrew Bolt’s articles shamed light-skinned members of the Aboriginal community.
Paywalls (now with bonus holes) and the future of journalism at News
There are smart people at News Limited. Some of them seem to have been given, if not their heads, then at least some slack in the reins.
Call to stop Gladstone dredging until fish, human health impact resolved
With all this spin, deceit and bluster by the Queensland government, it is easy to forget that all of these fish and public health issues are in and around the Geat Barrier Reef Marine Park World Heritage area, writes Crikey naturalist Lionel Elmore.
UNHCR data reveals the shifting burden of asylum seekers
It’s easy to be misled by asylum claim figures. The global numbers don’t matter as much as where asylum seekers are coming from.
Greens Senator: put the brakes on Gladstone dredging
Already 1.7 million cubic metres have been ripped up from the bottom of Gladstone Harbour in the past two months. Alarmingly, there’s still 44 million cubic metres to go, writes Larissa Waters, Greens Senator for Queensland
The Ernie Awards: fighting misogyny with limp sarcasm
A recently released report revealed sexism isn’t always expressed in a handy sound bite you can boo and hiss at; more often it’s subliminal, intangible — and deniable.
Guy Rundle: The middlingness of this year’s Booker Prize list
The West is broke, the Middle East is in flames, the world is going to hell on a hire bike, but let’s get to what really matters — the Booker Prize.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Misinformation and onshore processing
Onshore processing: Sandi Logan, Immigration spokesman writes: Re. “Crikey clarifier: what’s a bridging visa?” (14 October, item 3) & Marion Le (Monday, comments). There has plenty of misinformation circulating since last week’s announcement of a move towards onshore processing and Crikey, Marion Le and Jennifer Burn have got some of it wrong too. 1) Those […]
Morning Market Report: Markets rebound after yesterday’s losses
The Dow Jones closed up 180 overnight after falling 247 in the prior session.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Gillard’s as popular as Quade Cooper is in New Zealand
A Cabinet leak added to the Prime Minister’s woes, with much of the media taking it as a sign of imminent collapse.
Power Shots: Power Shots: Scipione at #3 … Palmer’s ‘beer money’ … megaphone watch …
Sydney Power: Andrew Scipione at #3. Andrew Scipione is the rarest of beasts: a popular police commissioner. And, as we recently reported, he’s the only one in NSW in two decades to be appointed by both sides of politics. “He’s a top cop, a good cop, and a straight shooter with strong ethics,” former premier Morris […]
Political snippets: Durban failure on the nose for government
As Labor continues to celebrate its achievement in getting emissions trading legislation through the House of Representatives comes this assessment of international movement towards an emissions reduction agreement.
Video of the Day: Clinton Foundation celebrity brain trust
Ever wondered how the Clinton Foundation brainstorms new innovations? With celebrities, of course. Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Jack Black, Matt Damon, Sean Penn and Ted Danson throw in the ring some … inventive ideas. Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division from President Bill Clinton
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Walkleys overlook Michael Smith. Walkley Award judges have made a massive oversight: Michael Smith’s entry of an interview with Craig Thomson has failed to make the cut. We’re reliably informed the in-limbo 2UE shock jock — currently suing the station for being fired over his determination to air allegations over Julia Gillard’s union links, even though he […]
Abbott v Putin: it’s a man-off
Tony Abbott and Vladimir Putin are reactionary populists who speak to their public through overtly physical demonstrations of manly prowess, writes David Ritter.
Crikey Says: Allan Asher should resign
There’s at least one issue that seems to be engendering bipartisan support in Canberra at the moment: the “Allan Asher did a really stupid thing” platform.
Argentinean Prez Cristina Fernández expected to thump opposition
Cristina Fernández, President of Argentina, is expected to retain power and win a landslide victory later this week. The big question is what the 58-year-old Fernández will do with a new mandate, writes Jude Webber.
Chronicle of Occupy explanation stupidity
There’s an early front-runner in “dumbest explanation of the Occupy Wall Street movement” — in a field with some stiff competition — and it comes from The Chronicle of Higher Education, another pseudo-pluralist right-wing outfit, writes Guy Rundle.
Nine changes story on pokies spiel
Channel Nine has changed its story on the celebrated rant by rugby league commentators Phil Gould and Ray Warren against the new pokie laws proposed by independent MP Andrew Wilkie, reports Paul Barry.
