Crikey Politics
The real economy: consulting the lipstick index
As we wait for concrete indicators that the wider economy has become victim of Wall Streets folly, lipstick, it seems is as good an indicator as growth projections from the Federal Government, writes Simon Huggins.
Categories: Australian Policy
ABC Learning will come back to haunt the Opposition
ABC Learning may yet turn out to be a significant problem for the Coalition, and it’s not clear they know it yet, writes, Bernard Keane.
Categories: Australian Policy
Real economy 2: Truth is we're treading water
The economy is lukewarm to tepid, but not dead. At worst, the national economy appears to be treading water, writes Possum Comitatus.
Categories: Australian Policy
First Dog on the Moon
Categories: Australian Policy
NSW, the premier state: for unemployment, dysfunction ...
Yesterday’s news of a fall in retail sales in NSW in the September quarter points to the extraordinarily serious problems the NSW economy currently faces, writes Bernard Keane.
Categories: Australian Policy
Janette Howard: the interview the ABC rejected
Crikey has unearthed an edited extract of Janette Howard’s red hot interview with the ABC for The Howard Years.
Categories: Australian Policy
DGs fall like flies as Ridout fears a Rees recession
To lose one director-general may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness, writes Alex Mitchell.
Categories: Australian Policy
Premier Rees screwed from above
NSW Premier Nathan Rees must now know what it is like to be screwed from above with yesterday’s news dominated by the revelation that an illegal brothel sits on top of his electorate office, writes Chris Seage.
Categories: Australian Policy
High-risk investments turn bad in Colombia
The natural desire to help people who may have lost their life savings needs to be balanced against the fact of moral hazard: that by decreasing the cost of foolishness, you will increase its supply, writes Charles Richardson.
Categories: Australian Policy
Secret data may give Qantas a QF72 clue
On board computer data that may give a clue to the QF72 incident can only be unlocked by the manufacturer, writes Ben Sandilands.
Categories: Australian Policy
First Dog on the Moon
Categories: Australian Policy
We need a new world health order, post-G20
We are faced with the possibility of transforming the dysfunctional, corrupt and unfair global economic system so we can tackle the global challenges of the 21st century, write Fran Baum, David Woodward and Dave McCoy.
Categories: Australian Policy
Mungo: Get off the pot Chris Mitchell
If the situation is even half as serious as Mitchell claims, then he owes it to the Australian public to tell them the truth. Unfortunately this may get in the way of a good beat up, but that’s journalism, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Categories: Australian Policy
Ul-Haque case gives ASIO licence to play rough
The failure of Mr. Carnell to take a similar view as Justice Adams did about the mistreatment of Mr. Ul-Haque by ASIO officers is disturbing, writes Greg Barns.
Categories: Australian Policy
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