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Australia

  • Grattan: Fire Barnaby the loose cannon

    National Times

    Barnaby Joyce as opposition finance minister is destroying Abbott’s already shaky economic credibility. Get Joyce out of finance and into a less risky portfolio before he ruins it further, writes Michelle Grattan.

  • Press pack turns on Kev

    Crikey / Ruth Brown / 0

    Is the honeymoon finally over for Mr 70%? The pundits are increasingly laying into Kevin Rudd, with his appearance on the ABC’s Q&A on Monday coming under particular scrutiny this morning.

The World

  • The FBI: In ur computer, readin ur history

    CNET

    The FBI is pressing US Internet Service Providers to track and record users’ internet browsing history, in what sounds like it would basically amount to mandatory wiretapping of almost every person in America.

  • Take an interactive walk down Haiti’s main street

    New York Times

    A clever interactive photo feature at the NY Times allows you to view all the earthquake damage caused to one of Haiti’s main streets, Grande Rue. With stores “cracked open like piñatas”, the damage is distressing.

  • China’s deadliest weapon: the debt bomb

    New York Post

    China’s most powerful weapon isn’t its three-million-strong army or its nuclear bomb: it’s the $789 billion stranglehold it has over the US economy, putting America and the West at its mercy.