No Crap App: w/b 24 Feb 2014

Pope, Canberra Times 22 Feb 2014

Tantrums & deception

• Greg Jericho: Never mind the bad Manus, let’s just talk about hurt feelings
• Laura Tingle: More action, less name-calling on asylum seekers
• Peter van Onselen: Conroy’s turn hurts Labor most
• Jack Waterford: Practiced in the arts of deception
  

Asylum seekers

• Elle Hardy: Asylum seekers: outside forces cannot shift the debate, only Australians can
• El Gibbs: Labor in vain: a new direction for refugee rights
• Piping Shrike: Sovereignty
• Mark Fletcher: Critiquing the open borders policy

Cabinet papers precedent

• Lenore Taylor: Coalition’s break with precedent takes political use of parliament to new level
• Ross Gittins: Convention goes out the door in tit-for-tat politics

Jobs and workplace reform

• James Massola: Bill Shorten takes a gamble as the industrial relations debate heats up
• Michael Gawenda: Time for Abbott’s ‘banana republic’ moment

Drought assistance

• Crispin Hull: Farmers not fair dinkum and we pay the penalty
• Linda Botterill: Farm poverty: an area of policy aid built on sands of ignorance
• Anna Vidot and Lucy Barbour: Dry argument: Australia’s drought policy dilemma

Econofacts & G20

• Greg Jericho: Quick, deep budget cuts? Australia needs austerity like a hole in the head
• Tony Walker: Australia is odd man out on climate at G20
• Laura Tingle: Treasurer’s domestic agenda goes global

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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 25 Feb 2013

Policies

• Ross Gittins: Election audit will bring porkies to light
• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Keep calm and call on Stevens
• Ben Eltham: Going, going, Gonski
• Jack Waterford: No shame in playing old game of blame
• Crispin Hull: Public service insulates against slash and burn
• Michael Gordon: The national disgrace that is our asylum-seeker debate

Politics

• Geoff Gallop: There’s more to ALP than Labor
• Peter Brent: The big demographic
• Katharine Murphy: Beware the distorting influence of live news cycle
• Dennis Atkins: Abbott off the hook but for PM it’s poll destroying

Profiles

• Paul Kelly: Malcolm Turnbull keen to play for Team Abbott

Media and free speech

• Ben Eltham: The truth about media bias
• Jonathan Green: Rearranging the deckchairs on the RMS Fairfax
• Marcus Priest: Limitations exposed in defence of free speech

 

No Crap App:w/b 11 Jun 2012

Lobbecke, The Punch 15 Jun 2012

The week that was…

After the excitement of last week’s unexpectedly positive economic news, this week political writers returned to pondering the community’s distinct unwillingness to be heartened by them.

Colebatch remained pessimistic, Grog gave an insightful retrospective of the economy 40 years ago compared with today, and Pollytics updated his seminal work on the Great Unhinging. Poss also produced a great piece on the internal inconsistency that bedevils community opinion.

Kelly said it was time to lower the public’s expectations, while Grattan pointed out that trust had a lot to do with their unhappiness and Dunlop explained that it should be attributed to their lack of civic engagement and sense of powerlessness.

Kenny and Elder kept the light firmly fixed on Abbott’s negative campaign, while a small war broke out over blogging versus journalism.

Economy

• Tim Colebatch: Green lights, but prepare to break
• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Then and now – looking back at the economy
• George Megalogenis: Lift in tax free-threshold poses new problems for working women

Community sentiment

• Pollytics: The Great Unhinging Revisited and What Australians believe
• Paul Kelly: Government must lower our great expectations
• Michelle Grattan: The glass of public trust in politics is nowhere near half full
• Tim Dunlop: Little surprise we’re an ‘angry nation’

Abbott’s negativism

• Mark Kenny: The Opposition wants you to be afraid. Be very afraid.

Blogging vs journalism

• Martin McKenzie-Murray: Democracy running on low ink
• Bernard Keane: Bloggers and investigative journalists

Sunday addition

• Crispin Hull: Jobs the price of keeping Fairfax afloat

No Crap App: w/b 6 Feb 2012

Kudelka, Australian 7 Feb 2012

• Jack Waterford: No mould, male or female
• Cheryl Kernot on politics, the media and female leadership
• Jonathan Holmes: Seeing the Wood for the Rineharts
• LaTingle: Do or die – Labor sets surplus in stone
• Mega: Abbott and Rudd achieve nothing positive by undermining the PM
• Shaun Carney: The Government finds its strong suit, finally
• Crispin Hull: What the Dickins is going on?
• Michelle Grattan: How to get the backbench on the front foot

Longer reads:

• Sally Neighbour: Divided we fall – the Australian Greens Party
• Dr_Tad / Tad Tietze: The Greens at the crossroads – ‘left’ and ‘right’ matter more than you’d think
• Christian Kerr: Greens’ big year may sour
• Norman Abjorensen: Tony Abbott, prime minister?
• Pollytics / Possum Comitatus: 2012 state of play