What role has social media played in the Arab Spring? Crikey editor Sophie Black spoke to Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International, and Bernard Keane, Crikey Canberra correspondent, in a special Crikey Live event yesterday.
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The deep cracks on Wall Street
What should we make of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement that started three weeks ago in a New York park? asks Karen Maley.
Rundle: for a Nobel cause, like Tranströmer, Les Murray for ’12
At last Australia has won its second Nobel Prize for literature. Or first-and-a-half.
Morning Market Report: Markets up as volatility continues
It was the ninth straight day that the Dow has swung more than 100 points.
Video of the Day: A Bellagio-style show made by water pistols
It seems clear that most of the Crikey team wasted their childhoods by not making rad videos such as this …
Let’s not repeat the Gladstone mistake
I worked in Gladstone, Queensland, from 1971 to 1980 on construction projects and visit children and grandchildren who still live their four or five times a year. Nothing can adequately express the horror of the true situation, writes Mike Crook.
Letter from...: Liberia, where women pray before the polls
More than 100 women dressed in white sit in the shape of a crucifix hoping to draw God’s eyes down towards the small West African nation of Liberia, writes Clair MacDougall, a journalist in Monrovia, Liberia.
Australia’s carbon tax battle: where it fits into the global war
When it comes to climate policies, the Left and Right parties in Australia have adopted virtually wholesale the positions taken by Left and Right parties in America, write Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus.
State-by-state damage to Brand Labor
Despite the best efforts of a tax forum and media tail-chasing about the Labor leadership, this has been an unusually sedate week in federal politics.
The Power Index: law enforcers, Andrew Scipione at #1
Andrew Scipione — the man in charge of Australia’s biggest police force — isn’t just a cop. He’s a miracle worker. His officers revere him, the public trusts him, and he’s the first NSW police chief in two decades to be appointed by both sides of politics. He’s even managed the modern-day equivalent of turning water into wine: winning […]
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Thank you, Steve Jobs, for your influence
Crikey readers have their say.
Media briefs: Perth Now now in Perth … ACMA v Seven …
As predicted by Crikey in January, Perth residents have fleetingly enjoyed the glow of new daily newspaper. Plus other media news of the day from around the globe.
Political snippets: Gillard’s broken promise
A classic example of the blame game. The buck passing on public hospital funding is well and truly back. The Tasmanian government this week announced it would cut more than $60 million from its elective surgery budget over the next three years. That means, according to federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon, that the state risks […]
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Bolt happy to have a Good Weekend. Good Weekend scribe and all-round nice guy John van Tiggelen met with Andrew Bolt at Channel 10’s Melbourne offices yesterday arvo to gather quotes and background for van Tiggelen’s eagerly awaited profile piece. Bolt has decided to co-operate with Fairfax, in stark contrast to Anne Summers’ Monthly piece […]
Crikey Says: Support innovation, not manufacturing
One of the world’s great commercial innovators died yesterday. The same day the Australian PM announced a new government policy to make more than $6 billion in federal grants contingent on Australian companies being given a “fair” chance to participate.
Two thirds of global murders occur in Africa or central America
Thanks to the worsening drug wars, men in Central America have a whopping 1 in 50 chance of being murdered before 30, according to a new United Nations report.
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Mapping the BBC cuts
The UK’s BBC is in crisis after announcing it will cut £700m in spending annually by 2016/17. Over 2000 jobs are expected to be cut in the next five years. The Guardian maps where the funds will be slashed.
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The most remarkable person I have ever known: eulogy for Diana Gribble
Legendary publisher Diana Gribble had the gift of seeing you in the round, with great and sometimes unsettling clarity, and she gave the impression of treating everyone as distinctive individuals, writes friend W H Chong.
The arts where swords are mightier than pens
While policy wonks gathered in Canberra this week for tax and jobs summits, Melbourne played host this week to an international summit for arts and culture. In some parts of the world the arts can be about life and death.
Vale to an ally of Dr Martin Luther King Jnr
Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a civil rights leader who’d been beaten, arrested and nearly bombed by white supremacists, passed away yesterday. Read how he took full advantage of his 89 years…
20 things Steve Jobs didn’t invent
Steve Jobs was an incredible inventor, but he didn’t create everything to do with the internet, music and personal computing. Michelle Collins examines the 20 inventions we should be grateful Jobs never touched.
An all new Airbus single aisle design is still out there
Airbus gave more clues at a briefing in Sydney yesterday as to what it will do when it eventually launches an all new design to replace its single aisle A320 program. Ben Sandilands reveals all.
