No Crap App: w/b 20 Oct 2014

 National security

• Barrie Cassidy: Are we peddling fear for the sake of it?
• Laura Tingle: Security services must be kept accountable
• Katharine Murphy: John Faulkner prods a parliament along fine line between security and liberty

Budget

• Lenore Taylor: Operation budget 2014 moves into nip and tuck stage

Labor

• David Crowe: Abbott and Shorten should emulate Gough Whitlam’s party reforms

Whitlam

• Evan Williams: The ride of a lifetime
• Monica Attard: Gough: The giant of our time
• Troy Bramston: Gough Whitlam’s truly remarkable career
• Rodney Cavalier: Whitlam a champion blessed with determination
• Piping Shrike: Whitlam
• Laura Tingle: Unlikely legend who changed the nation
• Paul Kelly: Gough Whitlam: Hero and villain
• John Stone: The economic policy madness of the Whitlam era
• Phil Coorey: How the Whitlam era taught everyone a lesson
• Bernard Keane: Gough: where modern politics started
• Ben Eltham: Gough Whitlam’s ideas must live on

Other thinkiness

• Jonathan Green: Mourning the death of ‘big P politics

By request, my posts for the week

• Labor misreads the politics of Ebola
• Cormann-Batty-Watts. The sexism link

No Crap App: f/b 29 Sep 2014

Pope, Canberra Times, 10 Oct 2014

Federal Budget

• Laura Tingle: Coalition budget battle plan falls apart

War on terror

• Phil Coorey: ‘Burqa’ ban and backflip have cost Abbott goodwill
• Tad Tietze: Who let all these Aussie-born Jihadists into the country?
• Greg Jericho: On Hush Puppies and dogs of war

Asylum seekers

• Mike Steketee: Refugee bill trashes our ‘good global citizen’ title

Senate inquiry into Campbell Newman

• Ben Eltham: The Coalition has itself to blame for Clive’s Queensland inquiry
• Anne Twomey: Can one Parliament investigate another?
• Jack Waterford: Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Clive Palmer play politics by different rules

Shorten

• Michael Gawenda: Hapless Shorten is trapped in a Rudd-Gillard timewarp
• Jonathan Green: The ‘Opposition’ is not living up to its name
• Barrie Cassidy: This is a watershed for Labor and the unions

Political profile

• Joanna Heath: Jacqui Lambie’s long climb to Parliament

Other thinkiness

• Paul Ransom: Dont blame me, I voted for …
• Tony Wright: Tony Abbott isn’t the first PM to be booed at the footy, and he won’t be the last
• Matthew Knott: The black dog roaming parliament
• Jonathan Green: Our reckless media fans the flames of disquiet
• Myles McGuire: Why I’m not a journalist
• Katharine Murphy: Faulkner’s call for trust drowned out by all the stunts
• Simon Copland: Against experts

 

No Crap App: w/b 22 Sep 2014

Clement, AFR, 26 Sep 2014

Gillard

• Katharine Murphy: Julia Gillard’s memoir is insightful, unflinching and revealing
• David Crowe: Yes Julia, we all made mistakes …
• Paul Kelly: A veil over Labor’s failure and a gloss on Gillard’s greatest hit
• Barrie Cassidy: There’s still life in the Rudd-Gillard stoush

War, terror, freedom

• Katharine Murphy: The acid test: Australian journalists must ask what agenda they serve
• Jonathan Green: Our disconcerting certainty in battling terrorism
• Monica Attard: New laws: Keeping us in peak fear
• Laura Tingle: Voters give leeway to get tough on terrorism
• Phil Coorey: Abbott shines a ‘light on the hill’ in UN address
• Mike Steketee: Abbott faces the reality of multicultural Australia

G20

• Simon Benson: There are high stakes and plenty of snags

Abbott

• Peter Brent: The Abbott conundrum

Shorten

• John Quiggin: Missing in action? Bill Shorten’s “small target” strategy is his only option
• Phil Hudson: Negative focus on Abbott wont’t suffice

AFR Power Feature

• Geoff Kitney: Power in Australia 2014
• Laura Tingle: Can good policy be good politics?
• Tony Walker: Clive Palmer creating disorder in the House

And my posts for the week

• Shorten’s timely transition from ‘no’ to ‘me too’
• The terror bounce
• Trust me (best viewed on a tablet or iPad)

No Crap App: w/b 11 Aug 2014

Pope, 14 Aug 2014

Abbott, Hockey and the Government

• Ben Eltham: Abbott’s early on-set of mid-term blues
• Piping Shrike: Chaos
• Phil Coorey: It’s hard to understand voters from the VIP lounge
• Tony Walker: No place for ‘must’ in Prime Minister’s vocabulary
• Laura Tingle: A government that fails to marshal its thoughts
• Greg Jericho: Road to nowhere – the fuel excise ain’t a progressive tax
• Barrie Cassidy: No more Mr Nice Joe
• Paul Bongiorno: Base politics
• Laurie Oakes: Joe Hockey wins the Goose Award
• Lenore Taylor: Joe Hockey may be sorry, but that doesn’t mean he gets it
• Paul Kelly: Tony Abbott: pragmatic but don’t expect to see a U-turn

 Other thinkiness

• Norman Abjorensen: Labor, the Coalition and the problem of political identity
• Tim Dunlop: A plea to the left: push back harder
• Frank Stilwell: Inequality: an old concern given new prominence
• Jonathan Green: Manipulation and the politics of fear
• Katharine Murphy: We must look past shock tactics like a child holding a severed head in Syria

 

And my posts for the week:

• Abbott’s survival relies on knowing when to fold ’em
• Unloved Joe Hockey: poetic justice
• Hockey, Shorten: tongue tied and in trouble

No Crap App: w/b 24 Mar 2014

 

Pope, Canberra Times, 27 Mar 2014

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Tony Abbott

• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott is sacrificing his significant majority by sweating the small stuff
• Katharine Murphy: Just who is Tony Abbott, six months after winning election?
• Dennis Shanahan: Election promises still need to be explained to public
• Peter van Onselen: Abbott trying to turn back the tide

Bill Shorten

• Simon Benson: Bill Shorten takes aim

Madam Speaker

• Gabrielle Chan: Bronwyn Bishop has always suggested she would paint the speaker’s chair blue
• Matthew Knott and Jonathan Swan: Labor remains determined to unseat Bronwyn Bishop

Racial Discrimination

• Mark Cohen: Why Australia’s race discrimination laws need changing
• Gay Alcorn: Locked in a war of words to define free speech
• Ben Eltham: How Bolt sets the government’s agenda
• Siv Parker: Repealing the race hate laws isn’t ‘freedom’ to Indigenous people
• Ed Butler: In Australia, the word ‘racist’ has lost all its meaning
• Vic Alhadeff: The priority should be keeping bigotry at bay

WA Senate election

• Niki Savva: Influence is Sir Clive’s coin of the realm

Knights and Dames

• Tony Walker: Nothing like a dame
• Barrie Cassidy: Forget the budget – let’s talk knights and dames

Paul Howes

• Mark Kenny: Forget the conspiracies, Paul Howes is just burnt out
• Ben Eltham: Resignation of a faceless man
• Aaron Patrick: Why I’m a media tart

Econofacts

• Greg Jericho: Why are people’s views of inflation at odds with the economic reality?
• Ross Gittins: Battlers exposed again as budget crunch nears

Political profile

• Sophie Morris: Barry O’Sullivan replaces Barnaby Joyce in the Senate

Other thinkiness

• John Warhurst: Centrist Liberals need stronger voice
• Tim Dunlop: Rage against the mainstream
• Jonathan Green: Culture wars distract from the Abbott non-agenda
• Peter Brent: How much for victory?
• Nick Osbaldiston: Competing for your attention: for all the cows…

And if you missed my pieces for the week:

• ‘Weakling’ Labor pulls its punches
• “We was robbed”
• Shorten spooks conservatives