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 19 May 2014

Moir, SMH 23 May 2014

Budget

• Katharine Murphy: Budget gets no brownie points for bravery from voters taken for mugs
• Jonathan Gree: Real politics snuffed in the wink of an eye
• Michael Gordon: Has the budget fatally wounded two Liberal leaders?
• Steven Scott: Government’s pain over blunders selling budget won’t be gone in a wink
• Lenore Taylor: The verdict is unequivocal: the budget is inequitable
• Peter Brent: Worse than Wayne’s 
• Peter van Onselen: An on-the-nose Coalition is a free kick for Shorten
• Troy Bramston: Lasting reform doomed by fault lines
• Waleed Aly: No way Tony Abbott can now budget for a second term
• Ross Gittins: What’s inside Joe Hockey’s head?
• Jonathan Holmes: Hard truths falling on electorate’s deaf ears
• Piping Shrike: Budget panto goes wrong
• Laura Tingle: Coalition gets a brutal lesson in policy on the run
• David Marr: The budget of a hidden man

 Liberal leadership

• Peter Brent: Is Tony Disposable?

 Palmer

• Jane Gilmore: Clive Palmer is the Loki of Australian politics
• Tad Tietze: Dazed & confused: The Left, Palmer and Budget 2014

 Double dissolution

• Antony Green: Double dissolution speculation misguided

Protests

• Amy Gray: Why I take my child to protests

Political profiles

• Deborah Snow and Anne Davies: Meet the real Joe Hockey
• Sophie Morris: The family guy

My posts for this week

• Labor’s choice: Chaos or kudos
• One punch is okay? Unforgivable, PM
• Palmer: Not what you were expecting

 

 

No Crap App: w/b 17 Feb 2014

Pope, Canb Times 19 Fen 2014

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Asylum seekers

• Lenore Taylor: When Australia stops the boats, you can’t ignore the wave of human misery
• Jeff Sparrow: Australia’s sick and proud message
• Ben Eltham: We’d be lost without whistle-blowers
• Waleed Aly: The whole point of detention for asylum seekers is horror
• Peter van Onselen: Minister beware, asylum baggage drags you down
• Greg Jericho: Asylum seeker policy in lockstep

WA Senate election

• Antony Green: WA Senate re-election – what happens next?
• Barrie Cassidy: WA distraction to test Coalition numbers
• Jack Waterford: Abbott has little to gain at a by-election for six Senate seats
• Rob Burgess: A storm of propaganda will hit WA
• Crispin Hull: WA senate recount: Why the electoral law is an ass 

Industrial relations

• Frank Bongiorno: Doing the dirty work

Budget

• Laura Tingle: Audit report delivery sparks rumours of cuts
• Lenore Taylor: Free to see GP or go to gym?
• Jack Waterford: In politics, rain falls on both the just and unjust

G20 & climate action

• Tony Walker: Australia is odd man out on climate at G20

Econofacts

• Greg Jericho: Wages boom alarmists the economic equivalent of climate change deniers and Spectre of jobless economy looms
• Ross Gittins: Why we can’t give business free reign

Other thinkiness

• Andrew Elder: Not Tony Abbott

No Crap App: w/b 3 Feb 2014

Rowe, AFR 31 Jan 2014

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Griffith by-election

• Peter Hartcher: A bicycle built for two

Electoral reform

• Antony Green: Piggybacking on the Labor and Liberal brands 

Industrial Relations

• Mark Davis: Paul Howes has roused the conspiracy theorists and stirred the possum
• Ben Eltham: Ambition comes first for Paul Howes
• Tony Wright: AWU chief Paul Howes knows which way the wind is blowing for unions
• Jacqueline Maley: Paul Howes: Tactics versus compact – The art of union warfare
• Greg Jericho: What wage explosion?

Industry assistance

• Lenore Taylor: Where is the government’s new line in the sand on industry handouts?
• Greg Jericho: Billions lost in tax concessions expose Australia’s hypocrisy over federal aid
• Michael Gawenda: The dubious virtue of Abbott’s revolution
• Jack Waterford: Joe Hockey holds fast for now
• Laura Tingle: The politics of the ‘age of entitlement’

War on the ABC

• Ben Eltham: The ABC is on sold ground
• Tony Walker: Controversy or cull for ABC
• Jack Waterford: Tony Abbott fighting ABC listeners as much as ABC journalists
• Jeff Sparrow: Lost at sea: why Abbott’s winning against the ABC

Economics

• Ross Gittins: Super ’70s flashback and today’s (economic) greatest hits

Profiles

• Michael Gordon: Tony Abbott … a man of fire and water
• Tom Allard & Deborah Snow: Why Treasurer Joe Hockey’s running the show

Other thinkiness

• Simon Copland: Our hypocrisy on democracy within political parties
• Elle Hardy: What’s wrong with the Australian right

No Crap App: fortnight beginning 2 Sept 2013

PolitiRowe, AFR 10 Sep 2013

Political debate

• Jane Gilmore: The fundamentals of public debate

Labor

• Tim Colebatch: The hoodoo that stands between Bill Shorten and the prime ministership
• Peter Hartcher: Abbott rules … OK?
• Paul Kelly: ALP in for bumpy ride as it sorts out leadership and carbon policy
• Jonathan Green: After three years of campaigning, how about a rest….

Coalition

• Laura Tingle: Prime Minister in waiting
• Gay Alcorn: Culture wars need to be consigned to history
• Katharine Murphy: Coalition’s calm as it takes power is a calculated move

Greens/Left

• Tad Tietze: The Left, the Greens and the crisis
• Antony Loewenstein: Where to now for the Australian Left?

Senate

• Marcus Priest: Glenn Druery – the vote broker who made the new Senate
• Tim Colebatch: A barnyard of crossbenchers
• Antony Green: Senate preference deals put the joke on us
• George Williams: Micro parties could party on if Abbott dissolves the problem

Election campaign and final result

• Piping Shrike: Relief
• Edwina Throsby: The undecideds – do swinging voters know enough?
• Tim Dunlop: Shouting us down
• Sean Rintel: FAIL – Why memes were not the key to Election 2013
• Greg Jericho: In (qualified) praise of the press gallery
• Ben Eltham: Look at Tony now

Before the poll

• Piping Shrike: An incomplete revolution – an update