What’s happening at the Daily Telegraph? The circulation figures aren’t the only reason for the question. Over the last few months, to this reader at least, the Tele seems to have subtly changed editorial direction, writes Margaret Simons.
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How Australian business can start catching up with the online world
Everyone knows the interactive web is changing the way we gain information on products, services and subjects we like. However, Australian business is getting left behind in this evolving interactive online world as consumers forge their own paths, writes Con Frantzeskos.
Jon Altman: in the name of the market?
The last fifteen years have seen rapid growth in the Australian economy that has thrown into stark relief the relative poverty and fundamentally different living conditions of many Indigenous Australians. Nowhere is this difference more apparent than in the Northern Territory, where over 80 per cent of the Indigenous population of 66 600 live in remote situations, primarily on Aboriginal-owned land, writes Jon Altman.
Pat Dodson: whatever happened to reconciliation?
Published by Arena Publications, Coercive Reconciliation: Stabilise, Normalise, Exit Aboriginal Australia is the first book to cover the Northern Territory Intervention. Crikey will be publishing a series of extracts of the book, due to hit bookshelves on the 1 October, over the next week. Today, Pat Dodson.
Charles Richardson: This ain’t no Tampa
The moral that most observers took from the Tampa affair of 2001 and the Coalition’s subsequent election victory was that “racism works”. So it’s not unlikely that among the mix of motives behind yesterday’s grand plan for intervention in Aboriginal communities is a coded appeal to racism, in the hope that it might again be the government’s electoral salvation.
