No Crap App: w/b 20 Apr 2015

Letch, SMH 24 Apr 2015

Budget

• David Crowe: Budget a problem that no-one wants to fix
• Mark Kenny: Hockey and Abbott pay the iron price as Labor circles
• Mike Steketee: From welfare to unfair: who budget savings rate
• Lenore Taylor: Abbott government endures four stages of budget grief, but ‘reform’ eludes it

Labor

• Greg Jericho: When “fairness” doesn’t cut it, ALP surprises with policy

Other thinkiness

• Bernard Keane: Senate reform and the outsourcing of democracy
• Sarah Malik: Stop the dog whistling on radicalisation, Minister
• Dennis Atkins: Our stop-the-boats stance will not work in Europe’s migration crisis
• Tim Dunlop: Tony Abbott and the normalisation of bad politics

By request, my posts for the week

• Business lobby is full of false bravado
• Put a leash on dog-whistling Tony Abbott
• The best and the worst – this week in politics

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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: w/b 17 Mar 2014

Knight, Herald Sun, 19 Mar 2014

Sinodinos

• Greg Jericho: The doors of perception
• Peter Hartcher: What happened to the famous Arthur Sinodinos judgement?
• Tony Walker: Arthur Sinodinos’ Greek tragedy
• Mark Coultan and Brad Norington: Caught in the vortex of NSW gutter politics

Asylum seekers

• Michael Gordon: Abbott fiddles while Manus burns
• Tad Tietze: Some thoughts on the Biennale boycott and the state 

WA Senate election

• Lenore Taylor: WA Senate poll offers an improbably colourful cast and bewildering plot

Econofacts

• Greg Jericho: Australia needs its young workers back

Other thinkiness

• Preston Towers: #MarchinMarch: Australia’s biggest tweetup
• Tim Dunlop: Polite resistance is futile
• Bernard Keane: Racial discrimination, free speech and vilification
• Sean Kelly: Tony Abbott’s war on information

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• For Tassie and SA it was all about the jobs
• Opinion polls: a measure or driver?
• Tale of 3 Treasury heads

No Crap App: w/b 3 Mar 2014

Lobbecke, The Aust, 7 Mar 2014

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Qantas

• Laura Tingle: National carrier: it’s a matter of definition
• Michael Gordon: Lessons for all major players in Qantas saga
• Greg Jericho: Seatbelts fastened as Qantas Sales Act hits turbulence
• Jack Waterford: Qantas encounters turbulence as it flies its flag into big storm

Unions & jobs

• Royce Millar and Ben Schneiders: Slush fund royal commission: the labour movement faces its demons 
• Elizabeth Humphrys and Tad Tietze: Qantas and job losses: the reality of union decline must be faced
• Ross Gittins: Talk of job losses doesn’t pay any attention to jobs gains

WA Senate election re-run

• John Warhurst: Much at stake in Western Australian senate election

Commission of Audit

• David Uren: Abbott fears the electorate will fight back

Asylum seekers

• Bernard Keane: Training, life boats and asylum seekers in the ‘battle space’

Government & opposition

• Jack Waterford: Six months on, it’s time Labor got off the floor
• Waleed Aly: Tony Abbott’s plan is to have no plan at all
• Peter van Onselen: Populism v exceptionalism: a plague on both parties
• Dennis Atkins: Time for Labor to reinvent itself

Political profiles

• Tony Walker: George Brandis – no stranger to contention

Other thinkiness

• Jonathan Green: Railing against a ‘left’ that no longer exists

No Crap App: w/b 14 Oct 2013

Coalition

• Bernard Keane: Political alchemy – who gets it right on front bench composition?
• Laura Tingle: Abbott needs to remember who holds the power
• Phil Coorey: Abbott needs to learn from history on the carbon price
• Greg Jericho: No easy revenue raisers up the Coalition’s sleeve
• Peter van Onselen: Prospects clouded by a lack of political courage

Labor

• Jack Waterford: Soup in blender far too early
• Tony Walker: Labor still a plaything of the factions
• Geoff Gallop: Shorten is right, the Left must start again

Greens

• Andrew Bartlett: Why the Greens are not just greenies

Media

• Walkey Awards finalists’ stories