No asylum from the Opposition's xenophobia

It’s okay for Coalition Governments to seek investment from Middle Eastern countries, but when a Labor Government does it, it’s Whitlamesque mendicancy to swarthy Arabs types, writes Bernard Keane.

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Qantas-BA deal ruffles feathers at Iberia

There's news from London that BA's other potential partner, Iberia, is upset and will tell BA it's either them or us, writes Glenn Dyer.

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Fixed terms: centralist, progressive and utopian?

Those with a “centralist, progressive and utopian view of the world” supposedly march hand-in-hand with an enthusiasm for fixed terms, writes Poll bludger William Bowe.

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Shake-up at The West

Editor Paul Armstrong suddenly looks limp-wristed following yesterday’s announcement that WA Newspapers CEO, the board chairman and two other directors were resigning, writes Lawrence Apps.

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Media briefs: The internet's black holes...The 7.30 Report on edumacation

The internet's black holes... Triple M poach Roy and HG... state of the blogosphere... Huffington Post worth more than some news companies...

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Real economy: Chapter 11 redux, automakers idling, men maxed out

Carmakers reach for the jumper leads ... bankruptcy takes off ... risky business for young men

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Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups

Peter Lloyd ... the economy ... short selling ... rainfall ...

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Crikey says

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Politics, The Universe, Etc

Bishop all but in hiding while Liberals innovate: 3/12/2008 | 4
For the month before Christmas: the Crikey Advent Calendar: 3/12/2008 | 1
Qantas throws a match into bonfire of the airlines: 3/12/2008 | 0
Letter from ... Bangkok: 3/12/2008 | 0
Menadue: COAG’s billions are a wasted opportunity for health: 2/12/2008 | 5
Crikey clarifier (dumb questions for smart people): The Congo: 2/12/2008 | 3
Who, we wonder, is out to get poor Julie Bishop?: 1/12/2008 | 15
Mumbai: after the attacks, the analysis: 1/12/2008 | 1
Mumbai terrorist attacks: A Crikey wrap: 28/11/2008 | 1
First Dog on the Moon: 28/11/2008 | 4
Judith Brett: Three faces of Rudd's first year: 28/11/2008 | 0
Roxon's ambassadors: homophobic, sexist and totally inappropriate: 27/11/2008 | 42
Mumbai terrorist attack: a Crikey wrap: 27/11/2008 | 3
Kruddiversary: The internet thanks you for 12 months of achieving nothing: 27/11/2008 | 2
Anti-gay bigots on Roxon's mens' health taskforce: 26/11/2008 | 62
Graduation Day in Wadeye: 26/11/2008 | 1
The Crikey Pet Register: 26/11/2008 | 5
Rudd's fortnight -- no sleep till Lima: 25/11/2008 | 15

Media/Arts/Sport

Softly-softly redundancies come to News Limited: 3/12/2008 | 0
Media briefs: Mercury two years behind the news... Outsourcing journalism to India?: 3/12/2008 | 0
Australia's not the bomb they'd have you believe: 2/12/2008 | 3
Media briefs: Roasts at Ramsey farewell ... AAP hires a firer: 2/12/2008 | 4
Walkley Awards and the writing on the wall: 1/12/2008 | 6
The real ratings story: records for ABC and SBS: 1/12/2008 | 0
Media briefs: AAP wields the axe, UK papers unite: 1/12/2008 | 0
Time may be running out for Fairfax CEO: 28/11/2008 | 4
Media briefs: Walkley Awards hangover... News Corp heir deadlock...: 28/11/2008 | 1
B-grade managers and on-line trash: Oz media at work: 27/11/2008 | 3
AFL draft: 11% of those picked will never play a game: 27/11/2008 | 1
Media briefs: AP gets ugly... Somali pirates may have kidnapped reporters...: 27/11/2008 | 0

Business

GDP cold comfort as Australia slips into reverse: 3/12/2008 | 3
CBA determined to please its CEO: 3/12/2008 | 3
Sagging economy leaves RBA snookered: 2/12/2008 | 0
Is British Airways circling Qantas?: 2/12/2008 | 0
RBA cuts rates by 1%: 2/12/2008 | 0
RBA prepares to cut, and cut hard: 1/12/2008 | 0
Shareholders apply the AGM blowtorch: 1/12/2008 | 1
Private credit eases, rate cut firms: 28/11/2008 | 1
TechCrunch: consumers in hiding: 28/11/2008 | 0
Real economy: Micky D's doom, dining-out dudded, Spamburger returns: 27/11/2008 | 0

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Why should Roxon take all the heat for this? Did Rudd and Jordan let this happen when they were sipping on Pisco Sours in Peru? Surely every ministerial appointment still goes to Cabinet and gets vetted by the PM's minders before it does? That's what used to happen. Same under Fraser, Hawke, Keating and Howard. Can't imagine any recent change.
Guillaume A on Roxon's ambassadors: homophobic, sexist and totally inappropriate (42 comments)

Does Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner still involve himself in the issues of the Congolese and Bantu? At least he got that son-of-a-b-tch Van Owen...
davo on Crikey clarifier: The Congo (1 comment)

Can't we do a deal with Nauru where we send all these Liberal failures to Nauru? We pay them a wage and inject their parliamentary pensions into the Nauru economy. This is a win-win scenario. It'll save us heaps on our aid bill. There must surely be close ties between the Libs and the Nauruan "government" forged during our foreign policy glory days of the Pacific solution?
Paul H on Who, we wonder, is out to get poor Julie Bishop? (14 comments)

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The Pollie-photo affair - no shame for the buyers?

Auditors pocket millions while asleep on the job

Arnhem Land finally gets wired

The Crikey Pet Register - goes from strength to strength

Oz Minerals continues to wriggle on the hook

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Budget night: a triumph of rite over truth

9/05/2007 12:00:00 AM

Guy Rundle writes: