We’ve taken the “most viewed” stories from The Age and The SMH websites from the last week and crunched them into this week’s tag cloud. It was all about Sydney, with a bit of the Andrew Johns drug scandal thrown in and to make up for all the inexplicable talk of church, lots of s-x.
Sydney
Cynical timing for Sydney rail fare inquiry
With the lockdown of Sydney’s CBD on in earnest today, what a great time to hold a public hearing into an application by City Rail to lift fares by 20 cents, and weekly passes by up to $3.
Google APEC challenge: Fly an F-16 into a venue
Hey kids! Fly an F-16 into the APEC hotspots in Sydney from the comfort of your own computer. No risk of arrest. No troublesome criminal record. No being hauled by the ghoulies by fascist police sadists into a mobile prison cage.
Crikey’s AFL Hot Form Chart: Round 18
Crikey’s AFL Hot Form Chart shows up one of the great comebacks in the AFL this year, a performance that even John Howard could take heart from.
The revolving door at Sydney FC
Players coming, players going — what’s going on at Sydney FC? Francis Leach investigates.
Liberal factional schism is the Towke of the town
Another day, another set of detailed accounts of factional schism in the Sydney branches of the Liberal Party arrives in the Crikey email. Here are the latest offerings. We don’t know who sends them and can only guess at the agendas in play, but a pattern is emerging: bitter internal chaos eagerly discussed.
Le Tour: Our Cadel, aka The Lung
Viewers of last night’s 60 Minutes puff piece on the Australians competing in the Tour de France learned a few things. Liz Hayes had a nice time in France. Gee, the bikes go really fast. And my, what pretty European cities our riders live in. But there’s more to Cadel Evans’ than Hayes let on, writes Chris Tunnock.
New uniform defamation code calms litigants
Amazing but true. The Age newspaper has received just one writ for defamation in the last 18 months. How could this be? In the same period the paper has seen a resurgence in investigative reporting and some gutsy sleuthing on gangland killings and religious cults.
Racing industry and Catholic church at odds
The Australian racing industry has often been dubbed “the Catholic Church at play” so strong has been the link between racing industry “identities” and the Catholic Church for a century or more.
Recent form suggests Wheatley will do time
Will rock music entrepreneur Glenn Wheatley go to jail for tax fraud? The answer, if recent sentences are anything to go by, is that it’s a distinct possibility. And Mr Wheatley is likely to get a jail term of some length if Victorian County Court Judge Tim Wood determines jail time is warranted.
