Should Woolworths consolidate Dick Smith?An expert has recommended Woolworths consolidate Dick Smith outlets into its existing Big W network after a report called for the closure of more than half Dick Smith stores, writes Patrick Stafford.
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Dick Smith backs Gerry Harvey’s call for online GST
Entrepreneur Dick Smith has backed electronics mogul Gerry Harvey in his fight to have GST applied to online purchases from overseas.
Megaphones Watch: Akerman vs Albo, Dick Smith’s nuclear scare-mongering…
Piers Akerman attacks Albo over “gollygate”; Dick Smith stokes nuclear fears to sell food; Ray Hadley calls for calm…here’s what Australia’s most powerful megaphones have been up to over the past week.
No beet-up, but Hun happy to throw meat in retail war
The Herald Sun has rejected conflict-of-interest concerns over its editorial coverage major advertisers, after some startling synergies heaped doubt on News Limited’s hallowed journalistic division between church and state.
The Power Index Austalia’s most-loved media tart
Entrepreneur Dick Smith never sits still and never shuts up. He doesn’t have a regular newspaper column or radio show but he’s made it on to top 10 Megaphones list, writes Matthew Knott.
Dick Smith: get used to pain retailers, time to stop the growth fetish
Amid all the talk of shopping strikes, US recession and the mainstream Australia’s eagerness to pay off their credit cards on time, the “prosperity without growth” crowd is beginning to arc up again.
Sideshow Alley: Sideshow Alley: let them eat cake
We salute these valid contributions to dumbing down and deliberately misleading the public and commend them to the public — with extra points to Scullion for simultaneously making politics more stupid and slightly threatening with the wave of a piping bag.
Dick Smith: Rupert, come back to Oz, we need you
Dick Smith has issued a plea to Rupert Murdoch: come home and provide much-needed leadership in acting against global warming. His newspapers have failed the cause.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The NSW blame game continues
Crikey readers weigh in on John Robertson, Andrew Bolt and Dick Smith.
Crikey Says: Sydney loves Dick … but misdirects its anger
An interesting thing happened on television last night. Dick Smith railed against a bigger population — and most of Sydney tuned in.
Campaign Crikey leftovers: Campaign Crikey Leftovers: Smith on population and Rupert’s ‘evil’ … Thomson leaflet watch … trawling Barker’s Facebook
Dick Smith’s amusing News rant. Small Australia advocate Dick Smith’s call for a Frank Bainimarama-style ejection of News Limited from Australia is worth re-hashing in full. Yesterday on Helen Dalley’s Sky News show, the gadgets millionaire went on the warpath, claiming that The Australian had become so wedded to the big end of town’s cheap […]
leaked Dick Smith attacks ATSB over inaction on near miss of two jets
Dick Smith has made a politically sensitive attack on the Australian Transport Safety Bureau for avoiding its responsibilities in its inquiry into a close encounter between a Virgin Blue 737 and a Jetstar A320 over a fog-bound Launceston Airport two years ago.
Dick Smith: gold-medal winning population growth not winning us friends
Our gold-medal winning population growth wins us no friends in Asia, writes Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith. Our refugee intake looks ever more miserly as our population increases, and our climbing birth rate makes us the odd one out in the region.
Population in Australia: 2050 versus 1950?
There’s a difference in population between crowded and congested. The real issue they ignore is that Australia and Australians must change their ways — that business as usual is inadequate.
Dick Smith: the people have spoken, halt population growth
For the past three months Dick Smith has been travelling the country talking to people about plans to rapidly increase Australia’s population. Nine out of 10 oppose the idea, he says.
Senator Brown versus the Somali Pirates
Greens Senator Bob Brown has continued his personal philanthropic crusade after it was revealed he had made secret donation to free Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan from captivity in Somalia.
Dick Smith: Please stop asking me about Qantas!
A rather unusual media release from Dick Smith lobbed into journalists’ inboxes this morning…
Greens go soft on Dick Smith
Why aren’t Bob Brown and his colleagues in the Tasmanian Greens outraged at the aggressive tactics of millionaire adventurer and developer Dick Smith?, asks Greg Barns.
Dick Smith’s $100,000 message for Kerry O’Brien: fix the skies
Dick Smith, former chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority and Civil Aviation Safety Authority, has hit out at Airservices Australia and the ABC’s The 7:30 Report in an unusual — and expensive — stunt designed to raise awareness of his ongoing air traffic safety concerns. Luke McKenna reprts:
