Ben Eltham

No Crap App: w/b 11 May 2015

Lobbecke, Aust 12 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

No Crap App: w/b 1 Dec 2014

Lobbecke, The Australian 6 Dec 2014

Lobbecke, The Australian 6 Dec 2014

Abbott’s woes

Jack Waterford: Tony Abbott should be looking to the message, rather than the messenger
David Crowe: Tony Abbott must start listening
Dennis Atkins: Why Tony Abbott’s government is in deep trouble
Dennis Shanahan: Cruising in opposition, adrift in government
Jonathan Green: Is history repeating itself already for Tony Abbott?
Michael Gordon: Prime Minister Tony Abbott is feeling the heat after a ‘ragged’ year
Lenore Taylor: The Coalition’s own messages are neither coherent nor convincing

Budget

Tim Colebatch: More reasons why the Abbott budget is so hard to sell
Jane Gilmore: CSIRO cuts: be very alarmed

Victorian election

Ben Eltham: Victoria’s Swing To The Left: Eltham’s Analysis Of Saturday’s Result
Stephen Mills: Rules for Radicals comes to Carrum
Wendy Harmer: “You should have seen this coming, guys.”

End-of-year thinkiness

Peter Browne: Gap year
Lenore Taylor: Three things a good government would do
Katharine Murphy: Five things we’ve learned from the year in politics
Greg Jericho: ‘Year of delivery’ draws to a close, but are voters buying it?

Other crunchy brain food

Greg Jericho: Don’t use Hughes’ death to beat your own drum
Monica Attard: Julie Bishop goes nuclear

By request, my posts for the week

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

No Crap App: w/b 13 Oct 2014

Knight, Herald Sun 15 Oct 2014

Knight, Herald Sun 15 Oct 2014

War on terror

Jacqueline Maley: Angry young man problem crosses cultures

Labor

Phil Hudson: Shorten ahead in polls but ALP vote languishes

Policies

Paul Kelly: New climate change battlefront pits Abbott against the anti-coal brigade
Niki Savva: Tony Abbott’s own side may put paid to parental leave
Ben Eltham: The poor will always be with us
Gary Banks: Reform ended when the politics got ugly

Other thinkiness

Luke Johnson: Loaded questions behind Lateline blowup
Monica Attard: What happened to live and let live?
Peter Brent: Shock of the new

By request: my posts for the week

No Crap App: f/b 8 Sep 2014

Moir, SMH 20 Sep 2014

Moir, SMH 20 Sep 2014

War on terror redux

Peter Brent: War games
Katharine Murphy: Politicians observe our fears and concerns and project them back at us
Tony Walker: Iraq mission raises questions for PM
Ben Eltham: Nothing like talk of a war to silence a small target opposition leader
Tony Walker: How Labor found the right note on Iraq
Monica Attard: In Washington’s back pocket
Mark Kenny: Get ready to be mugged by complexity and Does war mean we’re set for a khaki election?
Greg Jericho: Operation Mission Creep
Jack Waterford: Can Abbott defeat IS in a war of character?
Peter Hartcher: Terror raids: Perspective is always the hardest thing to find

Visit to Arnhem Land

Katharine Murphy: Indigenous recognition: five things standing in the way
Michael Gordon: Tony Abbott’s ears and eyes opened to indigenous priorities
Gabrielle Chan: Tony Abbott’s visit to Indigenous NT communities follows a basic rule
Myles Morgan: Is Tony Abbott becoming the Prime Minister for Indigenous Australians?

Budget

Peter Martin: Hockey has the right instincts, but has a long way to go to fix the economy

Political profile

Sophie Morris: David Johnson’s making as a defence minister

Jacqui Lambie

Kevin Bonham: Jacqui Lambie and the British Thug Far Right

Other

Peter Hartcher: A glaring omission at the heart of our political life
Phil Coorey: Both parties find clear air to think about policy
Laura Tingle: Iraq partnership caps a shift to calmer politics
Tad Tietze: A federal ICAC? ‘Accountability” & the decay of politics
Lenore Taylor: ICAC is revealing the murky depths of NSW but what about the entire swamp?

And my posts for the fortnight