How’s Bob Carr going?

“Bob Carr comes across as a test cricketer in the twilight of his career who likes the idea of Twenty20 cricket, understands its rising significance and who can play the occasional crowd-pleasing shot, but who feels much more at home …

THEY PROTEST TOO MUCH: Heritage militants’ campaign could close old cinema

St Michael’s Grammar, a Melbourne private school, bought St Kilda’s Astor cinema in a burst of good intentions. They have kept it open as a cinema, showing various arthouse films of obscurity to a small audience. The school planned to …

END OF DAILIES: Big Fairfax shareholder wants to dump The Age & Sydney Morning Herald

One of Fairfax’s biggest institutional shareholders has had a gutful of the troubled Age and Sydney Morning Herald and wants them to “stand on their own two feet.” MONDAY UPDATE: Fairfax have announced a brutal purge of as many as half of its SMH/Age editorial staff as part of cuts of 1900 staff in total. Bitter industrial action seems inevitable.

Guardian/Observer accused of illegal access to politician’s bank account

News Corp’s loudest British rival and frequent hacking accuser, the Guardian/Observer newspapers have been accused of illegally accessing the bank account of Scotland’s first minister Alex Salmond..

He reckons they were very excited by the “Fun and Games” entry …