No Crap App: w/b 2 Mar 2015

Abbott

• Geoff Kitney: Leadership threat continues to hang over Abbott
• Niki Savva: Bill Shorten’s lesson in leadership
• Jonathan Green: A chance to refocus politics went begging

Intergenerational report and the Budget

• Laura Tingle: Report is not so scary after all
• Peter Martin: Intergenerational Report: How Labor was framed
• Ross Gittins: Joe Hockey turns intergenerational report into a propaganda weapon
• Phil Coorey: Not retreating, just advancing in a different direction
• Lenore Taylor: Joe Hockey wants to talk, but real budget gain might mean swallowing a bitter pill
• Annabel Crabb: Budget ‘inoffensive’ hits Medicare co-payment

Iraq

• Tony Walker: Walking a slippery slope in Iraq

Political profile

• Fleur Anderson: Kelly O’Dwyer’s own looming intergenerational struggle

Other thinkiness

• Monica Attard: Has the hope of a ‘best possible Indonesia’ been killed?
• Greg Jericho: Bipartisanship and its limits

By request, my posts for the week

• Liberals should fear disunity, not Labor
• The reinvention of Scott Morrison

 

 

 

 

No Crap App: w/b 23 Feb 2015

Photo: Ellinghausen, SMH 27 Feb 2015

Liberal leadership (in roughly chronological order)

• William Bowe: Poll Bludger: dead-cat bounce for Tony, with Malcolm lurking in the wings
• Peter Hartcher: Tony Abbott clutching at straws in attempt to protect remaining support base
• Niki Savva: Peta Credlin’s toxic lecture to ‘gossips’
• Peter van Onselen: Throwing the media dogs a daily bone, it’s the government way
• David Crowe: Liberals hoping to dump Abbott find their Macbeth is a little Dusty
• Peter Hartcher: Baird effect v Abbott effect: A precarious balance
• Lenore Taylor: Paranoia grips Liberals as self-defeating Abbott lurches from one disaster to the next
• Laura Tingle: Tony Abbott in a swamp along with reform
• Sophie Morris: Plotting the anti-Tony Abbott forces
• Tony Walker: Abbott ignored all the key lessons
• Paul Kelly: Abbott faces leadership spill again, but Turnbull wants to wait

Triggs

• Jonathan Green: The speech Abbott could have made about Triggs
• Annabel Crabb: Triggs takes the punches that should be hitting Labor

Other thinkiness

• Dennis Atkins: Social Services Minister Scott Morrison is transforming himself but can a leopard really change its spots?
• Greg Jericho: Pro tip to the government – don’t forget to use your incumbency
• Tim Dunlop: Is media objectivity an outdated model?
• Tracey Spicer: Crying bias a tired “old media” story
• Elizabeth Humphrys: Anti-politics and the illusions of neoliberalism
• Tim Colebatch: Polls and preferences: the new challenge for election watchers

By request, my posts for the week

•  So much for a “more consultative” PM
• Can Abbott survive his “war on terror”?
• Abbott’s flagging fortunes on full, proud display
• Scott Morrison a beacon of hope and danger for PM

No Crap App: w/b 21 Jul 2014

Pope, Canberra Times 22 Jul 2014

MH17

• Monica Attard: MH17, Putin, and the truth
• Michael Gawenda: Searching for the ‘real’ Tony Abbott
• Tim Dunlop: In a national disaster, who speaks for us?
• Jonathan Green: Abbott should speak from the heart more often
• Michael Gordon: The best and worst of Australia on display
• Sophie Morris: Security council ties that bind

Coalition

• David Marr: A bulldog jaw and solemn warnings – but India calls the shots
• Mark Rolfe: Early missteps show Abbott needs a plan B to deal with the Senate
• Laura Tingle: Joe Hockey opens the book on a misfiring government
• Lenore Taylor: Maybe not your average Joe, but going for tough budget cuts is nothing special
• Annabel Crabb: Context pops Hockey right in the kisser – again

Other thinkiness

• Wendy Harmer: The outer limits of compassion
• Sarah Malik: When tragedy strikes, even onlookers can suffer
• Shaun Carney: Are voters set to stop giving first-term leaders a second chance?
• Paul Strangio: The myth of crisis in Australian politics

And my posts for the week:

• Purists and pragmatists clash on climate action
• Is MH17 Abbott’s turning point

No Crap App: w/b 12 Nov 2012

The week that was…

The Royal Commission was big news this week, with some suggesting the debate over the confessional was an unnecessary distraction. The Australian’s Paul Kelly criticised it for focussing only on institutionalised child abuse, when so much of it occurs within the home. Elsewhere, Irvine and Jericho did their best to improve our economic literacy, Dunlop and Green continued their dissection of the media, and some writers lifted their eyes past Christmas to the 2013 federal election. Also included is a longer read from Linda Jaivin on writing.

The economy

• Jessica Irvine: We’re afflicted with the same fiscal flab most governments struggle with
• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: US fiscal brinksmanship and its threat to Australia

The Royal Commission

• Michelle Grattan: Thinking outside the box – apply the same rules to all
• Waleed Aly: Choir of dissent off-key on the sanctity of confession
• Annabel Crabb: Stopping abuse goes way beyond the confessional
• Andrew Clark [$]: Catholics and bitter politics
• Paul Kelly: Commission on child sex abuse a depressing example of populist politics

The 2013 election

• Peter Lewis: Inevitable defeat for the ALP no longer so inevitable
• Pollytics: Trends, the horserace and random numbers
• Poliquant: The next Senate on current polls
• Barrie Cassidy: Any result is possible with leaders this unpopular
• Laurie Oakes: More to rebranding than softer edges
• Peter van Onselen: Tony Abbott needs new direction to get his mission home
• Geoff Kitney: Parties primed for 2013 poll dance
• Peter Brent: Proportion of unenrolled young people

The media

• Tim Dunlop: The big media complex is open for business
• Jonathan Green: Partisan hyperbole – mistaking a claque for a clap

On writing

• Linda Jaivin: Confessions of a graphomaniac

Sunday addition

• Kevin Bonham: As Gillard recovered, so can Abbott

No Crap App: w/b 8 Oct 2012

Rowe, AFR 13 Oct 2012

The week that was….

This week’s collection may be controversial, considering that I’ve been more supportive than most in the online world of the way the MSM covered the PM’s blistering response to Tony Abbott.

Nevertheless, I’ve tried to provide a cross section of the best pieces which covered the event. I’ve also included quite a number of the end-of-the-week analyses which examine, among other factors, the disconnect between the MSM and “new media” responses. Also included are two thought-provoking pieces on the business of outrage that [now] pervades political discourse.

Finally, for those who’d like to spend a small part of their precious weekend thinking about something other than Slipper-gate and the PM’s speech, I’ve collected a number of great think-pieces to ponder.

The Prime Minister, the Slipper and misogyny

• Clementine Ford: Playing the sexism card – a guide for politicians
• Caitlin Welsh: What the Australian media missed in Gillard’s misogyny speech
• Tim Dunlop: The gatekeepers of news have lost their keys
• Piping Shrike: Degeneration
• Get Shortened / Amy Mullins: It’s all just a load of politics
• Bernard Keane: Is the social media fury at the press gallery misplaced?
• Jonathan Holmes: Who has the ear of the ordinary people?
• Kate Legge: PM’s speech may write a page in history
• Julia Baird: Words that millions of women have rehearsed, yet never spoken
• Jacqueline Maley: Out of touch maybe, but press galleries don’t laud speeches
• Ben Eltham: Gillard rides the new wave of feminism
• Melinda McPherson: Why we’ll remember Gillard’s speech

End of the week analysis

• Laura Tingle: Complicated Canberra – drama compels, numbers count and Gillard’s pyrrhic victory
• Dennis Atkins: Canberra is getting as mad as hell
• Barry Cassidy: Hasty conclusions in a labyrinthine week of blunders
• Tom Dusevic: Players in risky game
• Paul Kelly: Misogyny tactic will backfire
• George Megalogenis: Come election time, the real world will have moved on
• Laurie Oakes: Misogyny’s a hit for badass Julia Gillard
• Jack Waterford: A volley savoured around the earth
• Lenore Taylor: PM’s speech did stir hearts, but remember the context
• Michael Gordon: The dogs of war replace Canberra’s civilised pack
• Geoff Kitney [free]: Gillard lets slip her chance to lead
• Phillip Hudson: None of these assess deserve so much as a donkey vote

The business of outrage

• Lauren Rosewarne: Easy virtue or easy outrage?
• Tony Walker [free]: Outrage is the new democracy

Other crunchy brain food

• Peter Brent: Conservatives or incumbents?
• GrogsGamut/Greg Jericho: Changing role of women in the workplace
• Peter Lewis: Polls apart – is Labor really coming back?
• Jonathan Green: Status quo is no longer an option for the media
• Tim Dunlop: The future is tabloid – and a good thing too

Sunday Addition

• Annabel Crabb: Grubby, grotty, silly and sexist, but misogynist is a sledge too far
• Michelle Grattan: The Prime Minister’s man problem
• Jessica Irvine: Canberra’s sex wars are underpinned by real sexual inequality