When the last vote finally came to adopt the 18 clean energy bills as complete package, former Slater & Gordon lawyer Adam Bandt broke into a broad grin, his election night pronouncements 14 months ago having born fruit.
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Tips and rumours
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Pash watch in carbon tax jubilation
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Dadaab, with ‘Furka’ and ‘Turka’, no one’s going home soon
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Grieving Jobs without worshipping Apple? It’s all Steve’s design
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Rundle: carbon tax a monument to Labor, and testimony to a burial
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Kisses all round as clean energy bills pass the House
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Argus and Crawford rail against basic accountability
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Today’s First Dog on the Moon
TOP STORIES
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Never mind the kiss, how ’bout that carbon tax?
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Uncertainty the only certainty
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Power Shots: does AJ have power? … urge to purge Rupert … Katter wagging parly …
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Rudd the apple of the media’s eye
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The surprising head of #occupysydney: a 60-something activist
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The long and winding road that leads to Olympic Dam
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Israeli soldier’s release a win-win
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Oz’s weather double … Aussie film fraud … Indy’s new masthead …
Crikey Says
POLITICS, THE UNIVERSE, ETC
MEDIA/ARTS/SPORT
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Seven continues its domination
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The quality journalism project: iconic Ita Buttrose
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Rundle: with the ALR gone, time to rethink our public sphere
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Markets down as Slovakia rejects plan
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Kohler: surrounded by Europe’s standing armies
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Property collapse: at last we’re catching on …
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The carbon tax bill, et al
BUSINESS
COMMENTS, CORRECTIONS, CLARIFICATIONS, AND C*CKUPS
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Letter from...: Dadaab, with ‘Furka’ and ‘Turka’, no one’s going home soon
Dadaab’s population has hit 450,000. That’s as big as cities such as Bristol or Antwerp. Or a camping trip three times the size of Glastonbury, where no one gets to go home, writes Rafiq Copeland, a freelance writer in Dadaab.
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Crikey Says: Never mind the kiss, how ’bout that carbon tax?
Yes, in the context of their relationship that embrace is quite momentous, considering the two can’t usually manage to look each other in the eye. But not quite as momentous as say, the passage of the actual Clean Energy legislation.
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Extremists ramp up assaults on Christians in post-Mubarak Egypt
The Egypt revolution has inadvertently empowered Islamist extremists, who have launched a wave of assault against Coptic Christians, reports Maggie Michael.
Post-chemo Hugo Chavez’s rap boogie
Iranian actress to be lashed for involvement in Australian co-production-
Media briefs: Oz’s weather double … Aussie film fraud … Indy’s new masthead …
The Oz: weather one day, same the next … Aussie film’s embarrassing aboutface … The Independent changes its masthead and more …
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The quality journalism project: iconic Ita Buttrose
Is there anything in journalism that Ita Buttrose hasn’t done?
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Stephen Fry got his hands an iPhone 4S eight hours before Steve Jobs died. The actor/writer/comedian/author-cum-gadget man felt inspired to pen an in depth review for The Guardian.
Google snitch on WikiLeaks volunteer
Mapping the BBC cuts-
The new Footloose, irrespective of its cheesy dialogue, cut-out characters and overall air of giddy celebration, is now a relatively sophisticated commentary on the war on drugs, writes Luke Buckmaster.
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Advice for authors: when to go back to the drawing board
It’s a tough call for every author: when to ditch your work and start from scratch. in a short essay novelist Tony D’Sourza explains how and why he went about it.
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A peek at Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe
With pleading eyes and a face that beckons to be loved, Michelle Williams painstakingly recreates elements of Marilyn Monroe’s life in upcoming film My Week With Marilyn, writes Robert Levin.
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Tiger Airways Australia has corrected claims it has made about the fares charged by its competitors while it was grounded as unsafe by CASA. The company has committed some very question acts, writes Ben Sandilands.
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Kohler: surrounded by Europe’s standing armies
Thomas Jefferson definitely got it right 200 years ago when he warned that banks are more dangerous than standing armies.
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It’s possible that the general media might start to notice how weird the Qantas strike situation really is. Onlookers can be excused for asking “what is going on?” writes Ben Sandilands.
Top 20 Steve Jobs quotes-
Few of us bother to look up to catch sight of beautiful birds that live their in a domain all their own above and around us. Bob Gosford observes the stunning Australian Kestrel.
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Like most live sporting events, grand slam tennis is shaped to a large degree by the character of the crowd. Writing from the US Open, tennis buff Julie Zhou reports on the joy of watching her third “Roger (Federer) slam.”
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Here is the cartoon I told you about
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Buy your Andrew Bolt Greeting Cards for Freedom now!
A number of these are now available over at the Crikey Redbubble shop as actual Greeting Cards… Click here…
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First Dog’s Time Machine! On this day in 2007
Today’s cartoon is from Friday, 28 September 2007.
