Luciano Pavarotti is dead. Why does this resonate? Because the life of Pavarotti is an allegory for our time, our decadent decline made flesh.
Christian Kerr
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
John Howard lists his primary APEC aims as: trade and economic co-operation; regional security; the elevation of key bilateral relationships, especially with Russia; and forging an international agreement - a Sydney declaration - for tackling climate change.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 22 August, 2007
Can we be assured that the government’s surplus might be committed to seizing this once-in-several-generations opportunity for constructive nation building? Fixing health, education, Aboriginal affairs, that kind of thing.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 16 August, 2007
People: get a life. A real one.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 15 August, 2007
Costello’s reported words of petulance are important not because of what the Treasurer said, but because of the decision the journalists involved made not to report it.
Media briefs and TV ratings
Red Kez’s blues … Murdoch turns his gaze to the “Gray Lady” … More welfare for poor TV networksSeven kills the Wednesday night movie … It’s a crime … Sideshow side-swiped, Parko parked … More evidence of Foxtel’s double-speak on ratings … Last night’s TV ratings.
FaceBook: with friends like these, who need friends?
Wow, when things hit critical mass these days, they really do it bigtime. Halfway in and there doesn’t seem much doubt that 2007 is going to be the year of Facebook.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 14 August, 2007
This is the way we make law.
Election ‘07: Reading between the polls
Subscribe to Crikey and you read on Friday that the latest Morgan Poll has the ALP two party preferred vote at 58.5 to 41.5% for the Coalition; a drop of 0.5% for the ALP since the last Morgan telephone poll.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 13 August, 2007
Dear John, I just can’t bring myself to say this to you face to face. It’s over…
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 8 August, 2007
Two graphs, two trends and a little food for thought.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 7 August, 2007
Two quotes to consider as the House of Representatives today casts a hasty eye over the 500-plus pages of legislative framework for the government’s Northern Territory intervention…
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 6 August, 2007
The next question is, of course, who ratted on the rodent?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 1 August, 2007
For those wishing to sort some sort of ethical order from the morass of modern statehood, a new tool is at hand. Crikey is the full bottle on the Axis of Woggle.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 30 July, 2007
For more than a decade the politics of the wedge have served John Howard faithfully and to advantage. Take an issue that places your opponent in a corner, wait for him to adopt a counter position and watch as he is wedged into a little sink of dark unpopularity.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Bomber’s seat is Brand, not Swan … Haneef and a capital O opportunist politician … Maningrida … wireless and broadband … (re)inventing unions … tampering with the Tampa …
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 25 July, 2007
The 2007 federal election is looming – but how will you vote if you don’t understand the game? Crikey has the answer.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 17 July, 2007
Are the government’s much vaunted anti-terror laws not worth the paper they’re printed on?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Politics, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll … Haneef’s detention … Walsham jury … Howard’s NT plan … Coles … fighter plane-spotting and Defence … getting brutal and effective in Iraq and Afghanistan …
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
When did the right lose it? … Howard’s NT plan … Crikey Bias-o-meter … bias and the media … an entertaining rant … reviewing history … comparing treasurerships …
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 26 June, 2007
Today, in the second part of our week-long Bias-o-meter series, Margaret Simons looks at Australia’s major capital city newspapers and finds the usual suspects dividing on predictable party and proprietorial lines. In print, it seems, we list heavily to starboard.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 21 June, 2007
As broadband discussion takes top billing, there’s one discussion we’re not having. Presenting Crikey’s lesson of the day…
