Yesterday we saw James Packer at the Crown AGM criticising the proposed changes to poker machine laws, call on the federal government to do more to stimulate tourism and then cop a vote of 55% against his company’s 2011 remuneration report. You wouldn’t know that from his interview with Channel Seven’s Jennifer Keyte.
October, 2011
The Power Index: cricket chief James Sutherland at #6
Australians are bored with cricket and our players are underperforming. As CEO of Cricket Australia, it’s up to James Sutherland to resurrect our national summer sport and oversee the biggest shake-up cricket has seen since the Packer World Series revolution of the 1970s. In Packer’s day the players took on the establishment to try and […]
As one speck of hope diminishes in Turkey, another beckons
As Turkish authorities continued to work through the rubble in the hope of finding survivors in the devastating earthquake to hit the country’s east, a 13-year-old’s fate was to give some hope, writes Erdem Koc, a journalism lecturer at La Trobe University.
Eurozone’s Halloween treat: a confection of silver linings and hot air
The markets have seized on the latest European deal with relief. But it’s another confection, and a humiliating one at that, write Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane.
Rundle: Bolt stuck between left and right
The Right has sought to portray Andrew Bolt’s support as coming solely from its own side. Yet this is the opposite of the truth.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Reform and blame
Crikey reads have their say.
Morning Market Report: Good news from Europe pushes markets up
European markets were also higher as global markets reacted to the Euro zone agreement for banks for take a 50% haircut on Greek bonds and leverage the EFSF to €1.4 trillion.
Media briefs: 2UE and 3AW off the market … Assange backs Bolt …
In an email missive sent round to Fairfax staff today, CEO Greg Hywood explained that its radio stations 2UE and 3AW have been withdrawn from sale. Plus other media news of the day.
Power Shots: Power Shots: Assange backs Bolt … Pell’s power plea … Twiggy’s new moon …
Assange stands up for Bolt’s rights. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has defended the free speech of conservative columnist Andrew Bolt, of all people, in a column published in the Fairfax press today. Bolt was recently found guilty of breaches to the Racial Discrimination Act for a number of stories he wrote questioning the choices of fair-skinned people […]
Political snippets: Gillard’s looking prime ministerial
If her approval ratings do not improve because of it then Labor really will have reason to despair.
Video of the Day: Mitt Romney’s bad lip sync spectacular
Here’s a campaign slogan you don’t hear very often: “stuff the ice chest.” In the burgeoning genre of bad lip syncs, Mitt Romney’s campaign video gets a good ol’ working over.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
ABC journo for LNP role? We hear Campbell Newman’s people are investing a lot of time wooing an ABC TV journo to head the central communications unit of an LNP government in Queensland. The journo is quite popular with party operatives. “She was also offered a major role in an LNP administration at the last state election, held […]
Crikey Says: We should do an ultra lounge
From the network which bought you Today Tonight’s “unmask a refugee on national television without informing him that he’s being filmed in the service of misrepresenting said refugee’s Centrelink benefits in order to whip angry pensioners into a frenzy” …
Criticism: a battle ground for ideas and power
Criticism is like public affairs and politics in the sense that it’s not just about ideas but power and influence. Richard Brody discusses two writers: one changed critics, the other changed the cinema.
Occupy Movement 
Wounding of a soldier in #Occupy Oakland
As equally as the Occupy movement has spread globally, so too have police actions to disrupt occupiers in the name of enforcing local ordinance regulations, writes Robin Cameron.
Guns regulation provides a loaded example
Labor learned one thing from the defeat of Barrie Unsworth’s government all those years ago — it is not the opinions of a sensible majority that matters on election day but the militant minority, writes Richard Farmer.
Paul Sheehan’s KPI’s: push buttons, be a trollumnist
The SMH’s Paul Sheehan’s incendiary mean-spirited attack on the Kapo a Pango (a relatively new haka) generated a tirade of negative feedback. Mission accomplished, writes Bob Denmore.
Premiers weigh in on Qantas disputes
The Premiers of NSW and Victoria have written to the Prime Minister urging intervention in the Qantas disputes to save domestic tourism, reports Ben Sandilands.
Daily Proposition: A cheesy pasta with a chocolatey drop
A Donna Hay-inspired three-cheese pasta (OK, maybe four) washed down with a Amherst Pyrenees Dunn’s Paddock Shiraz 2009 — just one of Michael Vaughan’s wine highlights from the past week.
Markets soar after euro debt deal
Crikey media wrap: After 10 hours of negotiations, European leaders finally agreed on a bailout plan to cope with the eurozone debt crisis. The news was enough to rally world markets.
Inflation: ‘skyrocketing’ versus ‘softening’ — you be the judge
Life’s hard for an Opposition when a government gets good economic news.
$80k pay day for Labor as CFMEU rejoins WA fold
The West Australian branch of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union is poised to re-affiliate with the Labor Party in that state, injecting up to $80,000 a year into ALP coffers and burying once and for all a bitter 2007 spat with foreign minister Kevin Rudd.
