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

No Crap App: w/b 11 May 2015

Lobbecke, Aust 12 May 2015

Budget

• Ross Gittins: Small measures and a media circus
• Michael Pascoe: The Law of Unintended Consequences hits Happy Joe
• Tim Colebatch: The budget: mostly normal, partly unreal
• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott’s budget promises and Labor’s reply are both about expediency
• Laura Tingle: Tony Abbott sharpens his election tools
• Paul Kelly: Abbott-Shorten conflicts clear after 2015 budget
• James Massola: Bringing home the bacon, saving the base
• Dennis Atkins: Budget shows Tony Abbott’s capacity to fight back should never be underestimated
• Jonathan Green: We’ve fallen through the ideological looking glass
• Ben Eltham: George Brandis’ extraordinary raid of the Australia Council

PPL

• David Crowe: Foot still dangerously close to mouth
• Andrew Probyn: Confessions of a double-dipping rorter
• Peter Martin: Could the Coalition have been any dumber?

Labor

• Laurie Oakes: Bill Shorten must act like a leader
• Troy Bramston: Lessons in British election for Shorten and ALP

And also…

• Katharine Murphy: Australian budget week: five things we learned

By request, my posts for the week

• Government rolls dice on Labor-lite budget
• Promising fairness, delivering incompetence
• Budget week bun fight

 

No Crap App: w/b 4 May 2015

Knight, Herald Sun

Budget

• Andrew Probyn: Treasurer Joe Hockey facing his crunch time
• Dennis Atkins: Abbott Government’s future rests on its crucial second Budget
• Michael Gordon: Tony Abbott gambles on the fairness factor
• David Crowe: Politics of distortion is a poor match for fair-minded debate
• Lenore Taylor: Coalition’s unwillingness to tax means commitment to fairness won’t last
• Ross Gittins: The budget circus isn’t the whole show
• Peter Martin: Expect a do-nothing budget that will cost us time
• Jonathan Green: Budget will be a true test of authenticity

Labor

• Troy Bramston: ‘Consultation draft’ platform shows Labor is anchored in the past

Greens

• Sophie Morris: Milne, Di Natale and Greens’ deliberate leadership coup
• Greg Jericho: How Di Natale hopes to grow the Greens vote
• Tad Tietze: The Greens after Milne: Running out of options?

Other thinkiness

• Malcolm Farnsworth: History doesn’t repeat

By request, my articles for the week

• Political leaks leave voters in the dark
• Egalitarianism is under threat?
• Was Christine Milne pushed or did she jump?
• Scott Morrison steals the show

No Crap App: w/b 18 Jun 2012

Pope, Canberra Times 20 Jun 2012

The week that was…

It was a fascinating week for those of us interested in the future of the Australian media. Collected here are quality pieces on what the changes mean for News Ltd, Fairfax and print media more generally.

Also collected are pieces on the Coalition’s political strategy, how the Prime Minister is faring, and the Rio+20 meeting.

Coalition strategy

• Phil Coorey: Why the Coalition is on a winner – it’s all about individual pain
• Dennis Atkins: Abbott steers away from the media
• Paul Kelly: Abbott’s gamble on cultural change

The PM

• Shaun Carney: Gillard looking all the poorer for throwing money at voters
• Andrew Probyn: Toxic taxes haunt two leaders
• Marius Benson: Misplaced moral lessons in the Prime Minister’s tale

Fairfax

• Jonathan Green: Don’t just blame the web for Fairfax’s failures
• Paul Kelly: Fairfax upheaval a risk for quality public policy
• Richard Ackland: Barbarians at the gate but there’s no need for a siege mentality
• David Penberthy: Never mind the Fairfax bollocks, newspapers can survive

News Ltd

• Dominic White: Now readers will call the shots at News

Future of print

• Peter Lewis and Jackie Woods: News you trust? Fourth estate was already wobbly
• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Fairfax and G20 visits – What do we need? What do we trust?
• Bernard Keane: Forget charters of editorial independence – they don’t work
• Neil Chenoweth: Downsizing to a compact solution
• Colleen Ryan: Giants of print yield to evolution
• Michael Gawenda: Our politicians are missing the story on newspapers
• Glyn Davis: High stakes – can publicly funded journalism fit the gap?

Rio+20

• Nick Rowley: Rio+20 – small steps could get us out of the climate quicksand
• Ben Eltham: Our environmental paradox
• Jessica Irvine: Prisoners of climate hold key to future

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No Crap App: w/b 14 May 2012

The week that was…

It’s been hard to avoid salacious stories on the Slipper/Thomson sagas this week, but I’ve included a couple of the more thoughtful pieces. The one from Mark Latham on human frailty is a must read. Likewise Tony Wright’s reminiscences about the good ole days. Otherwise there are some great pieces on the budget, the future role of unions and Kelty’s speech at the ACTU Congress.

Lenore Taylor, George Mega and Andrew Probyn look more closely at the Opposition, former ALP apparatchik and Senator Stephen Loosely writes on the media storm that pollies now have to contend with, while John Warhust reminds us what the polls are really saying.

And if you haven’t seen it yet, the 730 interview with Ken Henry is over on the Longer Reads page.

More post Budget analysis

• David Uren: Sugar-coated budget will fuel hunger for government handouts
• Shane Wright: Reform loses out to surplus

ACTU Congress and wise words from Bill Kelty

• Tom Dusevic: Unions fight to survive
• Shaun Carney: A trusted messenger steps forward
• Mark Kenny: Wise words for all politicians – the truth will normally do
• Paul Kelly: Labor and unions in uneasy embrace
• Mumble / Peter Brent: Kelty, unions and the ALP

Slipper / Thomson sagas

• Jack the Insider: The law is a perfect code of conduct
• Mark Latham: Human frailty made manifest
• Tony Wright: When the Concert Party ruled politics

More scrutiny for the Opposition?

• Lenore Taylor: The powerful spin of Abbott’s wrecking ball
• George Megalogenis: Swinger’s pendulum is an electoral wrecking ball
• Andrew Probyn: Abbott brings out Libs’ Dr No 

Other crunchy brain food

• Stephen Loosely: All a-twitter in the media cyclone
• John Warhurst: An opinion poll conundrum
• Don Arthur: The war on whinging

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