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.
Obama can win — but only if he gets his hands dirty
Destroying the 500-year-old mosques of Timbuktu-
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.
How to write the best tweets for the widest audience
The birth and evolution of the Twitter #hashtag
Instead of drowning, journos should start building boats
Top social media cheat sheets-
theatre reviews
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.
Seinfeld New Yorker cartoon sketch becomes a New Yorker cartoon-
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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But wait, there’s more — criminal probe widens in Libor’s wake
As criminal probes into the Libor rate-rigging scandal multiply, bankers are becoming increasingly worried that they might finally be held to account for their role in the global financial crisis.
Goldman Sachs and the missing $580 million-
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.
Koukoulas: Gillard’s timely black gold gift-
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?
