On a reliably frigid Canberra morning holed up in a ramshackle hotel bereft of any kind of heating, the sound of Anthony Albanese seeping out of the clock radio to claim total credit for the passage of the carbon tax seemed too much to bear.
October, 2011
Why companies that worm their way into a carbon tax are winners
The concept of irony just doesn’t do justice to the twists, turns, deceit and rank hypocrisy that has accompanied the long, slow road to the introduction of a price on carbon in Australia, writes Dr Richard Denniss, executive director of Canberra-based think tank The Australia Institute.
One last pitch to avoid the carbon reality
For much of the past decade, and particularly the last three years, the cheapest and most effective means of reducing carbon liability has been to try and avoid it altogether. Some are still pushing for it, says Giles Parkinson.
The government takes on violent extremism — sort of
On one hand, we want governments to be alert to the risk of an Anders Breivik appearing in our midst. On the other hand, there are some fairly obvious dangers in having the government monitoring people’s political beliefs and deciding what counts as “extremism”.
Gottliebsen: Wall Street’s confidence trick
Wall Street’s high risk taking could be a key issue at the 2012 US election, writes Robert Gottliebsen of Business Spectator.
The beautiful, bare occupation of Wall Street and Westminster Bridge
Occupy Wall Street looks like a reversion to an older pattern; for there is no more a “Wall Street” than there is a “Hollywood”; it’s another tourist street, with a statue of a bull, some Doric columns and a US flag.
Now it’s China’s banks under the hammer
The global banking strains have spread to China with the country’s government last night surprising with a very public move to buy shares in its four biggest lenders after their shares have fallen 30% in recent months.
Campbell Newman fires at ‘punks’ but shoots himself in the foot
Queensland LNP leader Campbell Newman did something yesterday that he should have done a long time ago, writes Brisbane blogger Kim Jameson. He released an up-to-date statement of his financial interests.
Power Shots: Power Shots: Rudd’s op-ed splurge … god and gambling … Jones in bronze …
Rudd and the power of the op-ed page. Much attention has been paid in recent days to Kevin Rudd’s frenzied schedule of TV appearances, press conferences, and visits to schools and shopping centres, but not to his opinion writing. But Rudd’s been busy with the pen, with today’s piece in The Daily Telegraph marking his fourth […]
Video of the Day: Video of the Day: Egyptian govt drives into citizens
An unbelievable video of (apparently) military vehicles slamming into Christian protesters in Cairo yesterday.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
ATO: micromanaged and understaffed. Why was our reader yesterday on hold for an hour and a half with the Australian Tax Office? An insider explains: “The Tax Office only funds the call centres on the basis of the smallest numbers of calls received. Therefore in busy periods there are delays for clients ringing the Tax […]
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Why the Labor brand is damaged
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: Dow closes up 330, US and Euro markets higher
The market is up 34. The SFE Futures were up 55 this morning. The Dow Jones closed up 330 overnight at its session high. US and European markets were higher after German Chancellor Angela Merkel held talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Berlin on Sunday where they agreed to find a sustainable solution to […]
Media briefs: Cutting The Monthly … violence in Egypt …
Across the inner cities of the world, goes out the cry these days — has The Guardian completely lost the plot? That’s due to rising prices and making the paper a crowd sourced affair. Plus, other media news of the day.
Political snippets: Richard Farmer’s chunky bits
A pair of worrying headlines. Insulated from much of the financial turmoil in Europe we may be in Australia but problems in China are of a more troubling kind. And this pair of headlines this morning sound an alarm: Both the China Daily and the Wall Street Journal stories tell of purchses of shares in […]
First Dog’s Time Machine! On this day in 2008
Today’s cartoon is from Friday, 10 October 2008 and is titled “The Chinese want less steel from us”.
Crikey Says: Crikey says: let’s not dwell on a few banners
Sophie Mirabella on the Occupy Wall Street movement …
Video 
Post-chemo Hugo Chavez’s rap boogie
On the weekend Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, currently recovering from cancer treatment, joined rapper Rodbexa Poleo Vidoza for a bouncy boogie. Has he got style? You decide…
Advice for authors: when to go back to the drawing board
It’s a tough call for every author: when to ditch your work and start from scratch. in a short essay novelist Tony D’Sourza explains how and why he went about it.
healthcare 
The backlash against “pinkwashing” and breast cancer marketing
Raising awareness and funding for breast cancer research, treatment, and support is as easy as purchasing a bucket of greasy chicken or drinking a bottle of booze, right?
A peek at Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe
With pleading eyes and a face that beckons to be loved, Michelle Williams painstakingly recreates elements of Marilyn Monroe’s life in upcoming film My Week With Marilyn, writes Robert Levin.
Iranian actress to be lashed for involvement in Australian co-production
Actress Marzieh Vafamehr, star of controversial upcoming film My Tehran for Sale, has been sentenced to jail and 90 lashes for taking part in the film.
