No Crap App: 6 Jul 2015

Rowe, AFR 8 Jul 2015

• Gay Alcorn: Look past Bill Shorten – this was an interrogation of our political system
• Tony Walker: Bill Shorten and Labor’s leadership dilemma
• Katharine Murphy: Bill Shorten at the royal commission: no killer blow, but now for the aftermath
• Niki Savva: Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten in bad odour with electorate
• Laura Tingle: Ministers’ comments show an unhappy government
• Katharine Murphy: Tony Abbott’s pointless whims uncover those who refuse to minister to him
• Dennis Atkins: The royal commission has exposed systemic greed and personal gain in trade unions

By request, my posts for the week

• Liberal right is all bark, no bite on same-sex marriage
• Richard Di Natale’s big gamble with the Greens
• Bill Shorten feels the slow burn of royal commission’s interrogation
• Will the real Bill Shorten please stand up
• Pollies escape scrutiny as Shorten is grilled

 

No Crap App: w/b 29 June 2015

Rowe, AFR 3 Jul 2015

Coalition

• Michael Gordon: Coalition vote on marriage equality still a long shot
• Phil Coorey: Tony Abbott’s gay marriage stance an apology to base for earlier transgressions
• Ky Chow: Include migrant communities in the same-sex debate
• Laura Tingle: An even more problematic rights debate looms for Tony Abbott

Labor

• Michael Gordon: Shorten’s chance to reveal his true self

Other thinkiness

• Peter Craven: Q & A’s danger of irritating the conservative in anybody

By request, my articles for the week

• Credlin’s mission to remove the Liberal’s woman problem
• Political weekly: Hockey all smiles as Labor Right rocks the boat

No Crap App: w/b 22 June 2015

Rowe, AFR 25 June 2015

• David Crowe: Both sides of politics play charades while dodging vital reforms
• Phil Coorey: Labor helps government pass legislation
• Laura Tingle: The Coalition has found that fear is a powerful weapon against Labor
• Lenore Taylor: Bill Shorten’s crisis of confidence: how poll frontrunner became hollow man
• Antony Green: An Early Election? Could there be a Double Dissolution?
• Jonathan Green: Zaky Mallah, Q&A, and the media at its worst

By request, my posts for the week

• Don’t like our current leaders? Good luck finding real alternatives
• Political weekly: Shorten’s career limiting move

No Crap App: w/b 8 June 2015

Rowe, AFR 10 June 2015

 

• Jane Gilmore: How malevolent buffoonery became the new normal of Australian leadership
• Greg Jericho: This is Australia’s debate on economics and security? No wonder we’re dissatisfied
• Michael Gordon: Abbott’s green light to people smugglers
• James Massola: Treasurer Joe Hockey’s gaffes on housing have put more lead in the federal government’s saddle-bags
• Fleur Anderson: Want to know how to fix the housing market and win an election? Don’t bother
• David Crowe: Security concerns must be followed to the letter
• Paul Kelly: The tricky politics complicate the citizenship debate
• Alex Frankel: Progressives failing to tell the Big Story

By request, my posts for the week:

• Flicking the switch from opposition to alternative government
• Just stop digging! Joe Hockey’s housing hate spiral

No Crap App: w/b 25 May 2015

Pope, Canb Times 26 May 2015

Government

• Phil Coorey: Dumb policy keeps Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey in polling peril
• Greg Jericho: Driven to distraction
• Lenore Taylor: Debacle over terrorism and citizenship is leak-based policy in its purest form
• Laura Tingle: The Abbott government’s terrorism Bingo! Playing chicken on national security
• Michael Gordon: Citizenship: it’s Abbott facing exile
• Andrew Probyn: Next federal election shaping up to be best of worst

Labor

• Paul Rodan: Is this the only leader less likely than Tony Abbott to win the next election?
• David Crowe: Bill Shorten’s same-sex initiative baffles like-minded Libs
• Jonathan Green: Same-sex marriage is an easy vote for MPs unwilling to tackle broader social issues
• Niki Savva: Conroy and Wong lead the charge as Labor goes to war with itself

Greens

• Sophie Morris: Richard Di Natale’s plans to reboot the Australian Greens

Other thinkiness

• Malcolm Farnsworth: An early election?

By request, my posts for the week

•  Shorten needs to refine his brand of attack
• Sloppy Joe’s loose lips land the PM in hot water