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G20 washup: questions over the death of Ian Tomlinson
Footage released overnight casts a sickening new slant on the death of a bystander at last week’s G20 protests in London, writes Andrew Crook.
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CRIKEY: In yesterday’s Crikey Mark Alridge was incorrectly attributed the byline of ‘South Australian Independent Legislative Councillor’ but he is not currently a member of parliament. The mistake was made in the subbing process.
Mark Latham:
Niall Clugston writes: Re. Yesterday’s editorial. What is it about Mark Latham that he brings out all this compulsive psychobabble? Where is […]
Guy Rundle: London plod’s G20 “kettling” boils over
The bolshy British approach to policing its G20 protestors could have resulted in the death of an innocent bystander, writes Guy Rundle.
G20 done, Rudd’s recession rubber hits the road
Rudd’s inclusiveness is in part a political weapon to isolate the Coalition from the mainstream, writes Bernard Keane.
The quick and dirty guide to what was agreed in London
Bernard Keane provides the pithy version of the G20 outcomes.
G20 snippets: from communique to Doha
A Crikey wrap of the g20 carnival. Watch the leaders ham it up for the final photo shoot.
US back fiddling the books on GFC
As the G20 were preening and congratulating themselves, US regulators were hard at work changing their accounting standards to placate the likes of Citigroup, writes Glenn Dyer.
Morning Market Report: The G20 bounce
The market is looking healthy … Dow up … G20 latest.
G20 ends era of unregulated international finance
It won’t quite bring transnational corporations to heel, but life for the financial branch of that family is going to get a whole lot less private, writes Bernard Keane.
Kohler: All spin, no substance emerging from G20
I have devoted a couple of hours this morning to trying to figure out what has changed from the G20 — hours I will never get back. I think it is all just spin, writes Alan Kohler.
Crikey Says: Reality … and rhetoric
What the G20 says v what the world actually looks like.
The G2.0 protests
As G20 protesters gathered on the streets of London yesterday, many also took out their little red netbooks and began to document every thrilling second of the action.
Alastair Campbell: Why Kevin Rudd made an impact
Kevin Rudd’s success on Sunday came from being rooted in a culture in which he is still able to see an interview as a place to make a series of big strategic points, writes Alastair Campbell.
“Sizzling G20 wives”, oh dear
Carla Bruni caused a frenzy last year. Now with Sarah Brown hosting and Svetlana Medvedeva attending, the first ladies of the G20 summit have all eyes in London placed squarely on them.
Mungo MacCallum: Rudd, Manning Clark, Mata Hari and Greg Sheridan
The Australian media sees a good spy story as only slightly less jeans-creaming than a good leadership story, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Keating: a chance to remake the global financial system
Until international monetary governance is democratised, or at least is more representative, no major developing country, creditor or otherwise, is going to put its head into the IMF cum US Treasury noose, writes Paul Keating.
Rudd’s Asia-Pacific Community DOA
Rudd himself has argued that Australia must pursue “middle-power diplomacy”. Hopefully at some point he’ll accept the logic of that himself and stop trying to change the world single-handedly, writes Bernard Keane.
