The market is up 88. The SFE Futures were up 45 this morning. The Dow Jones closed up 267 overnight. The S&P 500 was up 1.9% and ended the week up 1.1% for its third straight week of gains. European markets were also higher for a third straight week. EU officials are moving towards agreement […]
October, 2011
Media briefs: NYT lost in translation … Bolt’s ex exists … Sunrise not broken …
Nice to see Andrew Bolt’s one-time fiancée Sue Walshe coming out in Saturday’s Age following Crikey’s revelations last Tuesday that she actually existed and that the duo were definitely engaged. Plus other media news.
Political snippets: Learning from Canberra
Perhaps the authorities in Victoria and New South Wales learned something from the timid approach of their federal counterparts when it came to dealing with the occupation of public space by demonstrators.
Video of the Day: Seeger and Guthrie in Occupy hoedown
If they didn’t come for the protest or the politics, perhaps they came for the music. On the weekend, folk legends Pete Seeger (now 92) and Arlo Guthrie performed a rousing rendition of This Little Light before marching 30 blocks to Columbus Circle.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Occupy this. Tips are flowing thick ‘n’ fast from the Occupy protests that were broken up by police on Friday in Melbourne and in the early hours of Sunday in Sydney. The first is particularly interesting, given it comes from someone badging themselves as a Victorian policeman: “Hi, I’m a Victorian policeman so I can’t […]
First Dog’s Time Machine! On this day in 2007
Today’s cartoon is from Wednesday, 24 October 2007 and is titled “Mysteries of Democracy – The Recyclable Cardboard Polling Booth”:
Crikey Says: Andrew Bolt’s readers save the day
Andrew Bolt’s rights have been trampled on, freedom of speech has been denied to him and he has been silenced. Sort of.
This year’s NT Media Awards: not a single punch thrown
Back on after three forgotten years, the NT Media Awards, held in Darwin summoned around 150 pundits. Bob Gosford was there, avoiding the pokies and bogans and soaking up the atmosphere.
A tale of two cities: Occupy Melbourne and Sydney
Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has expressed solidarity with the Occupy movement, a stark contrast to the vitriolic attitude held by Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, writes Matthew Knott.
What might (and should) Google+ brand pages look like?
Google has began to trial brand/company pages for Google+. It’s hard to make great looking designs using the current format, so Mashable contacted ad agencies to mock up some appealing possibilities.
Dump of the week: Borroloola. Gulf country, Northern Territory
The Northern Myth blogger Bob Gosford has a fondness for some things in life (i.e. sewers and roadkill) others feel less comfortable with. Gosford presents his latest fascination: massive rubbish dumps.
Your one-stop All Blacks Rugby World Cup victory thread
Well done New Zealand. Winning the Rugby World Cup is clearly the nation’s greatest achievement since it through the ring into the fires of Mordor, writes Leigh Josey.
Will Abbott fall into the Death Zone?
A year from now Tony Abbott will enter the Death Zone, a period that claims many a political scalp. Will he survive it? Ex-Liberal Party member Andrew Elder says no.
Interview with director Daniel Nettheim on outback drama The Hunter, starring Willem Dafoe
The Hunter is an outback Australian drama starring Willem Dafoe as a mercenary sent to capture a Tasmanian tiger. The film’s director, Daniel Nettheim, spoke with Luke Buckmaster.
How dictators die
Colonel Gaddafi fought to his last breath, killed while clutching a golden pistol. Such a death is rare for a dictator: they usually escape, stay in power or are captured and killed, writes Andrew Roberts.
Kicking goals as sport’s most powerful: number 10
By night Labor apparatchik Mark Arbib counts numbers. But by day he’s paid to help decide which sporting bodies get what cash, how much punters can bet and what high-performance drugs are illegal, writes Tom Cowie.
A call for independent info about complementary medicine
The Pharmacy Guild says its deal to promote Blackmores complementary medicines (CMs) has been withdrawn in view of “media reporting of the endorsement which was ill-informed and inflammatory”. In other words: the pot calling the kettle black, writes Ken Harvey.
The Stone Roses resurrection
The Stone Roses, widely considered a seminal band, reformed last week 15 years after calling it quits. The Brits are excited: 225,000 tickets to gigs were sold within hours of going on sale, writes Neil Walker.
Pay wars in paper salvage plans
As The Australian moves to a paywall, it has become very clear that it is no panacea. Despite claims The Times now has 110,000 paying customers, News International has confirmed that around 120 journalists jobs would go from the paper.
Newspoll: support plunges for Windsor and Oakeshott
The latest Newspoll survey shows support for independent MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott has taken a dive in their own electorates, though the means of determining the results was particularly problematic, writes William Bowe.
I, litmus: reflecting on arrests at Occupy Melbourne and Sydney
For all the criticism of the lack of direction and focus and solutions that the local Occupy movement is engendering, maybe that’s precisely why it is politicising people: because it’s accessible, writes NAJ Taylor.
Crikey Says: Justice in Gaddafi’s humiliation
The circumstances around the death of Muammar Gaddafi are unclear and likely to remain so. He was filmed injured but alive, and then later died of gunshot wounds, including one to the head.
Doyle breaks up the Occupy Melbourne party in the city square
Victoria Police have acted on Lord Mayor Robert Doyle’s demands to evict members of Occupy Melbourne from their indefinite camp in City Square, calling in the force’s shield-wielding riot squad to disperse the tent city.
