News Limited CEO John Hartigan and group editorial director Campbell Reid appeared before Ray Finkelstein and made it clear that they are willing to support better self-regulation.
November, 2011
Can Australia serve two masters?
China is Australia’s most significant trade partner (although we are not theirs). The USA is our most significant political partner. How do we balance the two? asks Aaron Fernandes.
Celebrating two months of Occupy Wall Street with 200 new arrests
Around 10,000 people have taken to the streets of Lower Manhattan on an official Occupy Movement Day of Act, after police removed protesters from their camp at Zuccotti Park earlier this week.
TV is dying and transmedia’s the box they’ll bury it in
Television has long been a singular platform, with lounge room audiences tuning into particular programs at particular times. Those days are numbered and transmedia storytelling is the way of the future, writes Lisa Hsia.
My Cup Of Tea: Nowhere to pee, but music fans keep rocking on
Music festivals have the problems other arts sectors would die for. The logistics are a nightmare — like the recent Harvest Festival — but the fans keep coming.
Without him, there would be no NBN
What Stephen Conroy wants, Stephen Conroy gets. Right now that means we’re all paying for the infrastructure needed to create the National Broadband Network, whether we want it or not, writes Angela Priestley.
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Tales of summer from an American Girl Scout camp
Never having camped before and possessing zero outdoor skills, Laura Burgoine decided she was as suitable a candidate as any to be a camp counsellor in the United States after finishing high school.
European catastrophe could be just days away
Citibank’s chief economist Willem Buiter asserts that Europe may have a matter of days before an unnecessary default and a financial catastrophe, writes Richard Farmer.
Obamarama: he came, he saw, he left quickly
Crikey media wrap: Barack Obama’s first visit to Australia as president may have been brief, but the media coverage was not.
theatre reviews The Merry Widow — Opera Theatre, Sydney
The Australian Ballet’s revival of its 1975 production of The Merry Widow loses nothing at all to the sands of time. It is flawless and resplendent in every detail, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
All aboard Air Force One: the Armageddon Jumbo Jets
If the world is ruined by a nuclear holocaust, two jumbo jets will be winding their way between stratospheric funeral pyres of incinerated cities. Welcome to Air Force One, writes Ben Sandilands.
Putting Obama praise into context
This week Barack Obama addressed Australian parliament and told us Americans could have no better friend. But, as some spoil sport Canadians spotted, it isn’t exactly the first time Obama has dished out that kind of praise, writes Richard Farmer.
Assange case: it’s time for Gillard to ask Obama some important questions
If freedom of the press and the protection of Australian citizens mean anything to our nation and our Prime Minister, Julia Gillard needs to have a meaningful discussion with Barack Obama about Julian Assange, writes Jennifer Robinson.
Maley: staring down US budget D-Day
For the past several weeks, investors have been obsessed by the continuing carnage in European bond markets. But a looming US deadline is about to remind the world that debt is not just a European issue.
Why our property markets are guaranteed to recover
Although immigration has slowed in recent times, the projections for our future population have many concerned about where all of these people will live, writes Michael Yardney, director of Metropole Property Investment Strategists.
Obama to China: you can’t exploit our fiscal crisis
Barack Obama used his address to Parliament to send an unambiguous message to China.
Could the US stockpile and transit banned cluster bombs in Darwin?
A US military “base” in Darwin will necessitate foreign weapons systems and armaments being stockpiled, retained and transited on and in Australian territory (spun as a “rotational deployment” — for China?). I’ll use base until I know better. Long-standing and committed allies Australia and the United States hold different positions on many matters relating to both arms control and […]
Liberals exposed as kingmakers in bitter chicken spat
A shadowy astroturf group led by two Liberal Party operatives has emerged to bend public opinion in the bitter Baiada poultry workplace dispute.
Suntech calls an Australian solar boom
Suntech, the world’s largest solar manufacturing company, has produced stunning forecasts for the solar PV industry in Australia, writes Giles Parkinson.
Mining industry surges, but we’re becoming a service economy
While the resources boom creates thousands of mining jobs, it is the services industries that are driving the biggest change in our workforce.
Political snippets: Obama a boon for Gillard
Labor election campaign planners will be delighted with how the visit of Barack Obama has turned out.
Media inquiry: what is your problem, Fink? asks Hywood
Team Fairfax — Greg Hywood, Gail Hambly and Peter Fray — arrived with a suggestion of attitude and began their presentation with assertion
The Power Index: the pay man at News, Freudenstein at #3
Richard Freudenstein can leave Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited knowing his work is done. He’s off to run Foxtel, after building the landmark that will guarantee his fame for many years to come: the Great Wall of Holt Street. That’s The Australian’s new paywall — or “digital pass” as Freudenstein prefers to call it — which is the Great Big Hope for […]
