While Melbourne likes to think of itself as Australia’s cosmopolitan capital and rarely misses an opportunity to promote its laneway bars or nightlife, three polls that ended on Monday remind us that some links to its wowser past still remain. Christopher McNamara reports.
The citizens of Switzerland love a referendum, with three to four held per year. With each contentious referendum comes posters from the fringes of Swiss society, packed with racism, anti-immigration and Islamophobic rhetoric, explains Troy Wilkinson.
It's Tuesday. Cheap Arse Tuesday, if you will. The day businesses lure us with discounts to fill empty shops, restaurants and cinemas. It's an opportunity to enjoy an evening on the cheap, says Sophie Cousins.
The Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw has taken the unconventional route of endorsing Toy Story 3 for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. The director, he says, "should not just get the Oscar but the Congressional Medal of Honour."
The Hide & Seek Melbourne books are a popular series about the city's hidden and quirky gems. Crikey book blogger Angela Meyer saw many of the sights at a launch on the weekend, including an op shop, a shoe shiner and a button manufacturer.
Boeing’s misfortunes also mesh in with the US paranoia over the threats to or even loss of financial and technological leadership to China in coming decades.
An email file copied to Crikey contradicts Qantas claims that pilot jobs are not at risk in the current dispute between the group and the Australian and International Pilots Association.
Drenched to the bone after a day cycling around in the rain and leading his bike across flooded roads with water up to his knees, Scott Bridges offers his misty travelogue through Sri Lanka.
The beauty of travel is that it encourages us to do exciting things. Bungee jumping in New Zealand? Okay. Eating fried spiders in Cambodia? Sure. Visiting an iguana farm when you have a lizard phobia? Er...
Odessa was once the pearl of the Black Sea, a holiday playground for the USSR's rich and famous. But amongst the crumbling architecture and the semi-naked beach goers, Jay Martin goes in search of an authentic Ukranian meal.
