The daily clickthroughs:

STATE OF THE PLANET: Are coal-fired power plants factories of death?

STUFF WE LIKE: Toilet-roll art and talk-show trainwrecks. (And alliteration.)

What’s new on the Crikey blogs:

POLLYTICS: Nerd alert: Predicting campaign effects

PLANE TALKING: How Airbus nearly killed 155 people, according to an idiot

ANDREW BARTLETT: Big drop in skilled migrant applications, as higher costs for employers and migrants proposed

CRIKEY SPORTS: Press conference of the week: Aurelio “Crow-eater hater” Vidmar

LITERARY MINDED: Love, literature and evolution — Writers at the Convent

THE NORTHERN MYTH: An Intruder’s Guide to Arnhem Land — winner of the NT Book of the Year

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