Keeping Sunday special

Meanwhile, it’s all foreign to the Fin and separating Fairfax from fiction.

Keep Sunday special. Peter Dutton on claims of mischief-making in government ranks, The Bolt Report, Channel 10, yesterday:

If people … It is Sunday — it is Sunday morning. If people want to make trouble, Andrew, that is an issue for them.

How hard can it be to Google “Premier of Queensland’s name”? The Australian Financial Review Weekend, Saturday:

Unlike Anna Palacziuk …

Creativity and agility. Bernard Salt, The Australian, June 25:

The top end of Australia’s corporate muscle mostly exists within the resources sector … Corporate America is more diverse …. The scale and the depth of the US supports four large corporations in technology and social media namely Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook. Australia offers nothing unique in this space … The biggest and most powerful economy on earth doesn’t get to this position without having something that other nations, including Australia, just do not have. And that something is corporate creativity and agility. Within the Australia top ten businesses by market capitalisation, can you name the most recently established enterprises? The answer is Woodside 1954.

And creative borrowing. John McDulling, The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday:

Corporate Australia is pretty old. Certainly our biggest companies are … Being old isn’t a problem per se. But what’s more concerning is the level of inertia among the our big aged companies … Let’s take a look at the ten biggest companies on the main stock index in the US … It’s evenly split between very old … corporations and tech companies founded in more recent times, with the three biggest no older than forty … There are many, many things to dislike about the US economic system. But the dynamism of its biggest companies isn’t one of them … That type of creative destruction is not happening here.

Fairfax and fiction. Quadrant Online, Saturday:

In the Saturday editions of the Fairfax Press three prominent Australian keyboard-ticklers — Peter Carey, Richard Flanagan and Thomas Keneally — capitalise on the happy disgrace that neither the Sydney Morning Herald nor Age has an editor. Certainly, there are office doors emblazoned with that title in each newsroom … But actual, real-life editors, the sort who read with a critical eye what their reporters and columnists hope to lay the next day before the public? Don’t be silly! The proof is in the ... trio’s open letter to Malcolm Turnbull ... “The Australian book industry is not a government subsidised or protected industry. To say otherwise is an ideological fiction.” This will come as news to the Australia Council, whose website offers a handy tool for discovering which scribblers … and, yes, publishers have received how much and for what.

Put it away, mate. The peculiar priapic ponderings of Charles Waterstreet, The Sun-Herald, yesterday:

Putin’s restraint in not nuking Turkey immediately was as elegant as a Tantric master withholding his climax to muster even more enlightenment and engagement at the point of explosion.

As ye sow, so shall ye reap. The Herald Sun, Saturday:

Thousands of ... cases ... are under a cloud after $750 million was wiped from ... Slater & Gordon, in a stock market bloodbath ... Rival law firms are now monitoring the chaos to decide whether there is a case for a shareholder class action against the company.