Fewer Mexicans attempt the dangerous US border crossRepublican presidential nominees discussed an electric fence being built on the Mexican border. But unemployment, border security and drug cartels along the border have seen a huge drop in numbers of locals leaving Mexico.
November, 2011
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Life magazine’s worst ever covers
The cover of a magazine is the single biggest determiner for sales. But what happens when editors use a terrible cover? Life magazine admits its 20 most confusing ones.
Google’s halls of power: why the really influential wear thongs
Google Australia’s offices are reinventing the rule book when it comes to what a place of power should look like. Think free lunches, guitars, X-boxs and staff wandering around in shorts and thongs, says Angela Priestly,
Danger 5: your new favourite TV show?
“I try not to indulge in too much hyperbole, so allow me to say this as calmly and as rationally as possible: Danger 5 is my new favourite TV show ever,” declares Dan Barrett. Check out the trailer to see if you’re onboard too.
A quick guide to the latest domestic air fare battle
Air Australia nominated the Brisbane-Melbourne route for the latest domestic air fare blood bath today, launching a new web site and one way economy fares from $69, writes Ben Sandilands.
Uranium sales, arms control fails
NAJ Taylor discusses uranium exports in the context of nonproliferation and disarmament, after Labor yesterday announced its proposal to sell uranium to India.
Obama arrives to an eager Aussie PM
Crikey media wrap: Airforce One will touch down in Canberra today, carrying US President Barack Obama on his much-awaited visit to Australia.
Crabb: Liberals like a nanny state as long as they’re the nanny
Conservatives in Australia have their long johns in a knot over planned pokie regulations, arguing that Australia is turning into a nanny state. So why were they pro the Howard-led Intervention in the NT against indigenous Australians? asks Annabel Crabb.
China’s manufacturing centre’s annus horribilis
For years Wenzhou, China has been the scene of China’s financial and entrepreneurial success, full of fancy cars and new apartment buildings. But slowing exports — thanks to debt-laden Europe — is crushing the city’s manufacturing sector.
Coles cheap beer deal goes down the drain
Last night Coles Online offered slabs of James Squire and Coopers beer for just $15.99, due to an apparent technical glitch. Should the company have just offered to honour the accidental price?
Labor’s incoherent nuclear policy
Exporting uranium to India will boost its civilian and military nuclear programs. But it’s unclear exactly how Labor feels on the issue.
Minister’s delay on heritage listing puts Tarkine at risk with mining
In the next two weeks, the federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, will decide whether a major mine in the Tarkine requires approval under federal environment law, write Deb Wilkinson and Andrew Macintosh from the Australian Centre for Environmental Law at the ANU.
Why do researchers help conference organisers make big bucks?
So why do public sector experts give up their valuable time to effectively donate their time and expertise to for-profit companies such as IIR?
AFP to The Oz: ‘you show me your info if we show you ours’
AFP counter-terrorism tsar Steve Lancaster has told a court that he undertook a “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours” process with The Australian’s Cameron Stewart to negotiate the terms of an anti-terror drop.
The Power Index: inside Google HQ, where the really influential wear thongs
A typical hall of power was once dominated by suits, harbour views, boardrooms and a hierarchical system of who gets what office. But then Larry Page had to invent Google and change all of that. Now, some of Australia’s most powerful offices — indeed some of the globe’s most powerful companies — are reinventing the rule book when it comes to […]
Italy defaults on debt and sends lenders broke? So be it
Australia should not give a cent more money to the IMF, writes Adam Creighton, a research fellow at The Centre For Independent Studies.
Benny Wenda: Indonesia’s silent genocide
For a country so close to Australia, I am always surprised at how many Australian citizens remain unaware of the genocide that is taking place less than 80 kilometres beyond the country’s northern shores, writes Benny Wenda, an exiled West Papuan independence leader, and a guest blogger on This Blog Harms.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Glenn Milne radio career thwarted. Did 2UE test Glenn Milne as a presenter for its ailing talk network? That’s the word out of the Fairfax-owned camp, where the search is on for an afternoons host to replace the finally terminated rabble-rouser Michael Smith. Milne — who like Smith had his own run-in with News Limited management over a […]
Maley: three bitter solutions for Europe
Financial markets succumbed to a fresh bout of pessimism overnight, as investors queried the ability of the new Italian and Greek leaders to tackle the massive economic challenges they confront.
After nine years as a refugee, it’s time for quality of mercy
There is a Tamil man from the north of Sri Lanka, sitting in an Immigration detention facility in Victoria. He has been assessed as a refugee but is not allowed to be released.
How the NBN came to my house (and how much faster it is)
The prospect of being connected to this high-speed broadband network in the next few months sent me scurrying for information, writes Amanda Gearing, a freelance journalist in Toowoomba.
The Power Index: digital leaders, Google’s Australian man at #5
Nick Leeder gets told what to do by his Google masters in Silicon Valley. But the local MD of one of the world’s most powerful organisations has got the numbers to have a voice on the future of digital media in Australia. He’s in control of a brand that almost 100% of Australia’s active online […]
How private equity ‘dud’ bids destroy value, not create it
The phrase “private equity to bid” is no indication of news, or quality in a story.
Rundle in Athens: Mogadishu with spanakopita, and the mood is dangerous
We’ve already established what kind of girl Greece is; now we’re just haggling about the price.
Morning Market Report: Markets fall as Europe changes continue
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party voted to allow euro states to quit the euro zone, a move which is not permitted under current euro rules.
