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Author Archives: Leigh Josey

Crikey Roadtest: the Snuggie, the blanket with sleeves

June 11, 2009 – 4:19 pm

Here in the Crikey bunker we have Sky News on high rotation as we feverishly produce the daily Crikey email each day.
Maybe it’s the global financial crisis or maybe it’s a dream demographic match up but Sky News seems to be  running a lot more ads from mail catalogue American companies in the Demtel mould [...]

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The Burchett Chronicles

February 23, 2009 – 8:00 am

Here at Crikey we’ve been at the centre of a vigorous debate surrounding the Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett.
Such has been the interest that we were forced to introduce “The special Crikey Wilfred Burchett section” at the bottom of our comments section of our subscription email.
It all started here, when Crikey reader Nick Shimmin wrote in [...]

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My pub burnt down and I don’t know what to do

November 17, 2008 – 10:09 am

I awoke this morning to grave news; my favourite watering hole, the Richmond Club Hotel, located on Swan St, Richmond, had burnt down.
The Richie Club as it’s known to those of us who live in Richmond put up a brave fight — 36 firefighters were needed to put down the blaze. They’d just installed an [...]

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Crikey’s “Name Obama’s puppy” competition

November 14, 2008 – 2:28 pm

Over at the “big” site we’re running a poll/competition to name Obama’s new puppy which will be heading to the White House come January.
First Dog and I collaborated to set this thing up — First Dog picked the ten best names from over 200 entries to create the finalists — and I set up the [...]

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First Dog on the Moon hates Australia

October 20, 2008 – 3:37 pm

I have an enormous amount of respect for Crikey’s own First Dog on the Moon.
We work well together in the Crikey trenches, ribbing each other over our respected choice in football team (First Dog follows the Bulldogs, I follow Freo); we compare moonwalks; cut out the latest day bed models from Outdoor Living Australia [...]

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