A new National Food Plan — backing the case to farm more of Australia’s north — is something Barnaby Joyce and Bob Katter have long called for. Emil Jeyaratnam speaks to them in Canberra.
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BHP titbits … Gillard’s Google+ Hang Out … Chris Judd chicken special …
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Rush Limbaugh’s Dark Knight Romney rant
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A northern food bowl? Katter’s heard that one before
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‘Search for our hottest asylum seeker’: Zoo overboard on smutty spread?
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Social media hoaxes the new weapon in green activism
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Labor and the gap between stated and revealed preference
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Greens need primary boost to beat Labor in Melbourne
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Today’s First Dog on the Moon
TOP STORIES
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From Russia with blood
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Where the rich and poor live
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Fitzgibbon flies in out of nowhere to get the press
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Green-hating News Ltd confirms Howes on the payroll
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Amid the Mid-East bloodbath, Libya takes a moderate road
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Armitage berates us for cutting funding for US firms
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Another Keneally in politics? Hubby considers mayoral run
Crikey Says
POLITICS, THE UNIVERSE, ETC
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Shire’s Shiny PR … deja vu for ABC … Guardian’s big loss …
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Seven wins, Nine plays possum
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Is management learning its lessons from vile Kyle?
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Bernanke’s comments spook markets
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Kohler: structural change brings wolves to the door
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Ford’s failure: a high-emissions gamble on low oil prices
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The trouble with Labor
MEDIA/ARTS/SPORT
BUSINESS
COMMENTS, CORRECTIONS, CLARIFICATIONS, AND C*CKUPS
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Kohler: structural change brings wolves to the door
Most of the difficulties facing businesses now are not the run-of-the-mill cyclic type. Long simmering structural changes have finally all come to the boil, and businesses are being burnt.
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Greens need primary boost to beat Labor in Melbourne
The Greens will need to bolster its primary vote to roughly 3% above Labor to triumph in Saturday’s Melbourne byelection, as the party’s bid for its first Victorian lower house MP hangs in the balance.
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Crikey Says: From Russia with blood
The efforts by Russia to protect Bashar al-Assad and block efforts to encourage compliance with the peace plan will only prolong and extend the escalating bloodshed in Syria.
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Media briefs: Shire’s Shiny PR … deja vu for ABC … Guardian’s big loss …
In today’s Media Briefs: Sun Shines on Shire publicity … Deja vu for ABC designers … Front Page of the Day … Guardian and Observer lose £44.2m … Seven not out of NRL race and more …
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‘Search for our hottest asylum seeker’: Zoo overboard on smutty spread?
How do you get noticed in an era when the smutty content you specialise in is only a mouse-click away? Zoo magazine wants to find Australia’s hottest asylum seeker.
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To read or not to read: literary review aggregation site launches
New website idreambooks.com aspires to be the literary equivalent of Rotten Tomatoes, taking aggregated reviews and providing an overall rating . Bethanie Blanchard discusses the site’s strengths and limitations.
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theatre reviews
Metamorphoses — PACT Theatre, Sydney
Based on the ancient myths of Roman poet Ovid, PACT’s new production of Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses is a richly rewarding experience with magical musical contributions and a brilliant young directorial muse, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
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The five trials of Gina Rinehart
A new book reveals the complex psychology and web of family relationships that have come to define one of Australia’s most powerful people. Who’s the real Gina Rinehart?
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The world’s zaniest beauty pageants
Beauty pageants aren’t always about conventional beauty. The weirdest include Miss Landmine Survivor, Miss Armpit Queen and Miss Plastic Surgery, writes Genevieve Rosen.
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Social media hoaxes the new weapon in green activism
A series of clever hoaxes has plagued oil giant Shell, as environmentalists trial new ways of getting their messages out.
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Poor management: the new black for IR deregulationists
The latest twist in the productivity debate is to use evidence of poor management as the basis for deregulating industrial relations.
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What the numbers say about the risk of shark attack
A fatal shark attack in WA on Saturday has generated worldwide media coverage on the dangers of Australia’s waters — but statistics indicate those risks may have been overstated, write Cathy Alexander and Leigh Josey.
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A tiger in the sack: anatomy of breaking AFL news
Did the AFL know that player Daniel Connors had been sacked ahead of a 2pm press conference and if so did they publish information that was sensitive ahead of one of its members, Richmond, going public with the news?
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“All media outlets are now under severe pressure”
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Why the public are not interested in the Public Interest Test
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Wind Turbines: Why do they hate our way of life?