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 8 June 2015

Rowe, AFR 10 June 2015

 

• Jane Gilmore: How malevolent buffoonery became the new normal of Australian leadership
• Greg Jericho: This is Australia’s debate on economics and security? No wonder we’re dissatisfied
• Michael Gordon: Abbott’s green light to people smugglers
• James Massola: Treasurer Joe Hockey’s gaffes on housing have put more lead in the federal government’s saddle-bags
• Fleur Anderson: Want to know how to fix the housing market and win an election? Don’t bother
• David Crowe: Security concerns must be followed to the letter
• Paul Kelly: The tricky politics complicate the citizenship debate
• Alex Frankel: Progressives failing to tell the Big Story

By request, my posts for the week:

• Flicking the switch from opposition to alternative government
• Just stop digging! Joe Hockey’s housing hate spiral

No Crap App: w/b 25 May 2015

Pope, Canb Times 26 May 2015

Government

• Phil Coorey: Dumb policy keeps Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey in polling peril
• Greg Jericho: Driven to distraction
• Lenore Taylor: Debacle over terrorism and citizenship is leak-based policy in its purest form
• Laura Tingle: The Abbott government’s terrorism Bingo! Playing chicken on national security
• Michael Gordon: Citizenship: it’s Abbott facing exile
• Andrew Probyn: Next federal election shaping up to be best of worst

Labor

• Paul Rodan: Is this the only leader less likely than Tony Abbott to win the next election?
• David Crowe: Bill Shorten’s same-sex initiative baffles like-minded Libs
• Jonathan Green: Same-sex marriage is an easy vote for MPs unwilling to tackle broader social issues
• Niki Savva: Conroy and Wong lead the charge as Labor goes to war with itself

Greens

• Sophie Morris: Richard Di Natale’s plans to reboot the Australian Greens

Other thinkiness

• Malcolm Farnsworth: An early election?

By request, my posts for the week

•  Shorten needs to refine his brand of attack
• Sloppy Joe’s loose lips land the PM in hot water

No Crap App: w/b 18 May 2015

Rowe, AFR 23 May 2015

Budget

• Alan Kohler: Modern budgets are exercises in spin – and this year was no exception
• Greg Jericho: If you’re going to compare levels of income and welfare, do it fairly
• Phil Coorey: Consistency, not whiplash, is key to political success
• Ross Gittins: Dishonest to resist curbs on spending and oppose higher taxes
• Lenore Taylor: Belt up, fellow Australians: we’re in for another Big Stupid tax debate

Asylum seekers

• Daniel Flitton: Foreign policy compromised by asylum seeker solution

Abbott

• Mark Kenny: Abbott’s policy flip-flopping is a bit of a worry

Labor

• David Crowe: Bill Shorten’s weapons losing firepower

Political profiles

• Cameron Atfield: New Senator Joanna Lindgren ‘no’ on same-sex marriage

Other

• Alan Ramsey: The Faulkner papers a rich treasure trove for the National Archives
• Tim Dunlop: Is democracy rapidly making way for oligarchy?

By request, my posts for the week

• An equity war could stifle the post-budget glow
• Throw-away lines that backfired

No Crap App: w/b 11 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

• Government rolls dice on Labor-lite budget
• Promising fairness, delivering incompetence
• Budget week bun fight