At a time when vampire genre storytelling desperately needs to be rescued from the clutches of Twilight, comes the second blood-spangled flick from emerging horror writer/directors the Spierig Brothers, says Luke Buckmaster.
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Turnbull takes aim at Abbott’s climate plan
Malcolm Turnbull has demolished Tony Abbott’s climate action plan in a long speech to Parliament, putting the case for the government’s CPRS far more eloquently and coherently than Kevin Rudd ever has, reports Bernard Keane.
Rebates to TV networks just an ugly bribe
The three commercial TV networks, Seven, Nine and Ten, went weak at the knees in congratulating the Government for its decision on rebate for licence fees. Can anyone say “election year”?
Video of the Day: Sarah Palin goes to a tea party
Sarah Palin goes rogue at the first ever Tea Party National Convention (and all for the low, low price of $100,000!). Is she gearing up for a presidential run in 2012? Did the crib notes help? Have the lunatics finally taken over the asylum in the U-S-of-A? Is First Dude Todd really pulling all the […]
Is the ‘working women need to be pushy bitches’ myth true?
A blog post about how women need to be pushier in the workplace got the blogosphere riled up this week. But with research showing that alpha-women earn more than their demure colleagues, will we have to raise our daughters to be aggressive jerks?
Could the internet win a Nobel Peace Prize?
The internet (yes, the series of tubes), has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Ridiculous? Maybe, but the campaign has some pretty big-name backers, including the editor of Wired and, er, Giorgio Armani.
Business As Usual: What’s Mandarin for boom?
China’s passenger car sales rose 84% last month, why Australia’s rising unemployment is chicken feed in global terms, The Australian carries on like a kookaburra, EMI is skint and more.
Feds tell banks ‘there are no guarantees’
The federal government is finally withdrawing its guarantees to banks and the state governments that allowed both groups to have a good recession. The measures kept our banks alive, but they gave the Big Four too much power.
Morning Market Report: Market up despite a Friday Wall St wobble
The Dow was up 30 at best and down 167 at one point, down to 9,835 but somehow miraculously managed to rally to close up at 10,010. The unemployment rate came in better than expected, falling to 9.7% from 10%.
Conroy tells movie industry, ISPs to kiss and make up
After last week’s Federal Court win for internet service provider iiNet, the movie industry was looking to the government to help them out. But the government has told it to sort out its own problems.
Fairfax lousy payers: that’s the word
Australian journos have been dobbing in publishers to Crikey’s Content Makers blog over their freelance rates. The results are in — and many aren’t pretty.
Media briefs: Radio revenue up … Google teams up with the NSA … Front page of the day …
Conroy slashes the cost of license fees paid be commercial networks, the US National Security Agency is working as Google’s bodyguard and more gold from NT News.
Crikey Competition: From the desk of First Dog: your CPRS entries
Last week we had a competition to celebrate the irresistible hilariousness of my Crepe Pugs, Nude Ducks cartoon.
Joe Ludwig’s dad shows the real campaign finance agenda
The Australian went back over a decade of returns from Labor Holdings Pty Ltd and concluded that this secretive Queensland investment arm has pumped $25 million into the ALP’s federal and state campaigns since 2000.
Uni campus’ reloadable ANZ card draws some heat
In an Australian first, Sydney University and ANZ have announced an all-in-one access card, ID card and Visa reloadable prepaid card, as part of a move towards a “cash-free campus”, writes Bhakthi Puvanenthiran.
Reality bites the “grand visions” of Northern Development – again
The idea of developing a bounteous “food bowl” that could ensure Australia’s food security long into the future has been a recurring political dream. But like most dreams, they usually get mugged by the grim realities of science and economics.
Crikey Clarifier: Rudd versus Abbott on climate change: what’s the difference?
So what is on offer from the Government and the Opposition on climate change, and where does the truth lie? Andrew Macintosh explains all the troublesome acronyms.
Political snippets: You lot are paying
Malcolm Turnbull gets the tabloid treatment, Barnaby Joyce helps a revival in Coalition support, rising temperatures up north and other political snippets from across the globe.
Robertson locals turning on Belinda Neal
A second ALP branch in Belinda Neal’s electorate of Robertson has rebelled against her candidacy for federal preselection, adding to a groundswell of grassroots support for alternative candidate Deb O’Neill.
Guy Rundle: Gordon Brown is tap dancing like an old hoofer
Gordon Brown is desperate to find anything that works. After all, you’ve got to keep moving, listen to criticism, not be put off by it, especially when you’re up against the man putting a new unformed area of flesh on Tory politics.
The $120m sequel: swine flu II
We’re back to the swine flu scare stories, all looking rather embarrassed in the light of day. But who really benefits from immunisation and are there greater health priorities?
