The government has given the mining industry nearly everything it wants — and dramatically slashed the rate that would have applied under the RSPT.
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Tips and rumours
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The iPad version 0.001
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Miners dig the new tax
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Memo Julia: an ugly economy dictates an early poll
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Andrew Robb: the black dog stayed for years before I got help
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Kohler: Rudd an autocratic idiot, and Gillard shouldn’t be let off the hook
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Investigation launched into possible flu vaccine contamination
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Today’s First Dog on the Moon
TOP STORIES
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Mining tax compromise, but no deal for our most vulnerable
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The Treasurer and Treasury the losers
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This day in Crikey: Wednesday, 2 July, 2008
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Director of National Gallery of Australia surrenders his job — sort of
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The political maths of caving in to the miners
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Gay community’s honeymoon with ’sinner’ Gillard over before it starts
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Can sneezing really help treat depression?
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Brumby’s new fast food menu labelling to sort fat from fiction
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Minerals Council: super excited over resource tax backdown
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DEEWR and its contractors — worst-practice workplace relations in action
Crikey Says
POLITICS, THE UNIVERSE, ETC
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The Monthly’s future-speak … Hun veteran walks …
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People choose the digital channels
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Watch le Tour from the comfort of le couch
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The glossies that can’t get enough of Julia
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Market up as Gillard strikes mining deal
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Ireland emerges from recession … US housing sector is cactus …
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Far more serious matters than RSPT undermining confidence
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New tax a win for common sense and for the PM
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Where was News Ltd when Howard snubbed the Lodge?
MEDIA/ARTS/SPORT
BUSINESS
COMMENTS, CORRECTIONS, CLARIFICATIONS, AND C*CKUPS
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Brumby’s new fast food menu labelling to sort fat from fiction
The Victorian state government’s fast food menu labelling announcement is a step in the right direction for obesity prevention, writes Jane Martin, senior policy adviser of the Obesity Policy Coalition.
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Kohler: Rudd an autocratic idiot, and Gillard shouldn’t be let off the hook
Situation normal in Canberra? Alan Kohler addressed a group of senior public servants in Canberra last night and ruffled their feathers with an alternative view of the affair.
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Tea Party has no poets, no heart
The Tea Party may have a bunch of bumper stickers opposing new taxes and Obama’s health care plan but it will never be a genuine protest movement. Why? Because the party lacks poetry and prose, says Richard Geldard.
Savva: Special treatment for female pollies? Come off it.
Cold War II heats up with sexy spies-
Wankley Awards: The glossies that can’t get enough of Julia
Julia Gillard mania has well and truly hit the nation’s consciousness this past week. It seems we just can’t get enough puff pieces and souvenir liftouts about our freshly minted PM.
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The difference between men and women freelancers
The ‘women undersell themselves, men oversell themselves’ issue continues, with The Awl comparing how different men and women freelancers pitch stories to them. Men are direct, women are apologetic.
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Why Google can’t win against Facebook
Google Me will mark Google’s latest attempt to crack the social networking market, but skeptical Silicon Valley experts say the search engine giant will never be able to topple Facebook. Here’s why.
Inspire: Al-Qaeda launches a magazine in English-
Andrew Reitzer, CEO of Metcash, has impressed Australian shareholders since arriving in the country in 1998. By his own admission Reitzer’s motivations are simple: greed and fear.
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Plenty of things went pear-shaped when the GFC struck and the U.S. financial reform bill failed to address many key issues. Author John R. Talbott compiles a list of failures.
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Virgin Blue and V Australia integrate
An integrated management structure for Virgin Blue and V Australia was announced internally in the Virgin Blue group yesterday, with clear signals as to where new CEO and former Qantas executive gm, John Borghetti is taking the group, writes Ben Sandilands.
Blog bullies: Gawker picks fights with the big boys-
To encourage a healthy cycling culture, cities need to improve their infrastructure to make cycling safer. Would specialised bike roads, rather than just a lane on car roads, work effectively?
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Things have been tough for the climate movement this year and the scale of effort required to combat the climate crisis is even bigger than the scale of the war Churchill fought, writes Anna Rose.
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Dan Horton is working on a barge “four miles off Ground Zero”, unloading the crude oil from skimmer boats that are attempting to clean up the Gulf of Mexico spill. He is allowed to send one email a day.
PHOTO GALLERY: The Gulf spill two months on
Worst case BP spill scenario actually far worse than BP admits-
Somewhat underwhelmed by a creeping sense of futility I lucked into a splendidly bitchy and fortifying review in the London Review of Books, writes W H Chong.
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Isn’t it rich? Isn’t it bliss? Artistically, aesthetically, musically, dramatically, lyrically, sonically, visually and otherwise, it’s a resounding ‘yes!’ Lloyd Bradford Syke reviews Opera Australia’s A Little Night Music.
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Crikey Clarifier: Can sneezing really help treat depression?
MP Andrew Robb said he’d look at the sun to make himself sneeze to release endorphins and help his depression. But does looking at the sun make you sneeze, and more importantly, does it change your mood?
Obama is not a ‘Nazi’ and abortion is not a ‘holocaust’-
Daily Proposition: Watch le Tour from the comfort of le couch
Despite the sport of cycling being plagued by countless doping scandals, few would argue that the Tour de France is one of the world’s toughest sporting events. So settle on the couch.
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Come in Spinner: Despatching the spin on Howard’s ICC rejection
Already the spin is in — John Howard got knocked back for the ICC job because he opposed the Zimbabwean Government. Sadly it’s much more complicated than that, writes Noel Turnbull..
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Crikey Says: The systematic corruption of international sports administration
John Howard has been the victim of international cricketing bastardry. We should skip the outrage and accept that in international sport the game off the field is far rougher than the one on it.
Howard’s ICC rejection could splinter international cricket
