Hermain Cain accuser goes publicRepublican presidential candidate Hermain Cain has had several women allege sexual assault and harassment incidents by him, but today was the first time that one — Sharon Bialek — gave a press conference detailing how her former boss grabbed her in a car.
November, 2011
NY Times sues HuffPo over a load of lode
For three years the New York Times has hosted the Motherlode blog. But last month its editor left to start Huffington Post’s new Parentlode blog. The name is too close for comfort, says NY Times.
Google launches ebooks in Oz
Aussie readers can now purchase an enormous range of Google ebooks directly from Google, as well as bookseller partners including Booktopia and Dymocks.
Luckily the Reserve Bank can lower rates further
The ANZ job advertisement figures out yesterday at least must make you wonder whether this is the right time to keep talking about bringing the federal budget back into surplus as Treasurer Wayne Swan is doing, says Richard Farmer.
Sound Alliance: the wildcard power entry
The three founding members of Sound Alliance are the unlikeliest pick of our powerful digital media players. But they’re showing the cashed-up, resource-rich players at the big end of town how to make a buck online, says Angela Priestly.
film reviews Our Idiot Brother movie review: not so dumb
As a character study the new film Our Idiot Brother is wonderful. As an ensemble piece about a disconnected family it fares less well but still endears, says Luke Buckmaster.
travel A visit to Joyce’s beloved Trieste, the ‘mongrel city’
Its multi-national melting pot of rulers and ruled arguably explains the reputation of Trieste, Italy as a haven for distinguished exiles, misfits and eccentrics, notably writers and thinkers — of whom Trieste has hosted its fair share, says Grant Doyle.
Two occupations: Occupy London and Palestine
As someone who has witnessed the humiliations daily endured by Palestinians living decade after decade under ‘occupation’ the word occupation was for Richard A. Falk an inalterably dirty word. That is until he visited the Occupy London protests.
Fairfax’s Downton Abbey downer
Fairfax Media shareholders meet in Sydney on Thursday. What they probably won’t be updated on is that Fairfax could still have been the owner of the company that makes the highly successful UK costume drama Downton Abbey, writes Glenn Dyer.
Newspoll: Labor narrows gap, Abbott hits record disapproval
The latest Newspoll has Tony Abbott hitting a record high disapproval rating of 57 percent, with Labor narrowing the two-party gap to 53-47, reports William Bowe.
Was Gaddafi upholding the chemical weapons taboo?
Muammar Gaddafi had perviously agreed to disarm all WMD capabilities but recent evidence suggests he kept undeclared chemical weapons. So why didn’t he use them? asks NAJ Taylor.
theatre reviews No Man’s Land — Drama Theatre, Sydney
No Man’s Land, which explores the rocky terrain of memory, is a play for those who appreciate their theatre, like their scotch, ‘as it is’. Michael Gow directs with the best hands-off tradition, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
Artz case: senior police at odds over evidence
A discrepancy between two senior police officers has emerged on the fourth day of the committal hearing of the former police officer accused of leaking information about a terror raid to The Australian.
Essential: Qantas divides voters, Fair Work Australia the only winner
Voters disapprove of Qantas management’s decision to ground its fleet, but don’t approve of the way anyone in the dispute conducted themselves except the industrial relations regulator, Essential Report has found.
Maley: PM is gone as Greece clings to austerity plan
Financial markets face a tense start to the week, as they wait to see whether Greece’s sparring politicians can work together in a national unity government and whether Italy can reassure nervous investors that it will push ahead with fresh austerity measures.
Mayne: News Ltd launches pre-emptive attack on Finkelstein inquiry
News Ltd is working hard to discredit the Finkelstein media inquiry before it has even begun public hearings in Melbourne tomorrow.
Accessing free publicity from an uncritical media
Access Economics benefits from free publicity from the biggest media outlets in the country. And what does it do with it?
Is the Gladstone gas project too high a price to pay for the reef?
If the fisheries and tourism of the Great Barrier Reef are worth $5 billion per annum, the impact of the Gladstone LNG project alone could be very significant, writes Crikey naturalist Lionel Elmore.
The Baillieu Dump: multicultural grants … water advocacy cuts … child seats in taxis …
Multicultural grants went to Labor’s marginals. Multicultural communities in inner-Melbourne Labor electorates were given the biggest building grants in the lead-up to last year’s state election, according to the Victorian Multicultural Commission’s annual report. The largest grant — $15,000 — was made to COASIT Italian Assistance Association, a group for Italians and Australians of Italian origin, in the marginal […]
Berlusconi sailing in stormy waters
Pressure is mounting as Silvio Berlusconi is yet to reveal any tangible details of his structural reforms beyond vague promises of asset sell-offs, pension reform and tax breaks to boost employment, writes Jo McKenna, a Rome-based freelance journalist.
Keeping Labor’s 12% — why not the Howard-Costello approach?
Don’t worry too much about the Coalition’s promise to fund the compulsory super increase - it’s dealt with this problem before.
The consequences of turning boats back: SIEV towback cases
Twenty-seven people are feared dead after an boat packed with asylum seekers bound for Australia sank off the coast of Indonesia last week.
The Power Index: leaders of a digital media future
Powerful digital media players are the creators of the future. They are the people tapping the potential of the digital economy to take us kicking and screaming into the depths of the 21st century — whether or not we want to be there. They’re the innovators driving new forms of interaction and engagement online, and across different […]
Simons: Dear (Media) Diary, you are just so predictable …
The swipe at me in The Australian’s Diary column this morning is so predictable one wonders if it is even worth a response, writes Margaret Simons.
Sun’s past sins put James Murdoch in the firing line
On the eve of his second appearance before a British parliamentary committee on Thursday night, Australian time, James Murdoch has two new bits of contention to deal with.
