No Crap App: w/b 14 Apr 2014

Lobbecke, The Aust 17 Apr 2014

NSW

• Quentin Dempster: Star chamber that took down a premier
• Lenore Taylor: Barry O’Farrell’s resignation is not an act of unprecedented moral heroism and Labor and Liberals both struck down with NSW disease
• Niki Savva: Premiers rise and fall on their fibs
• Greg Jericho: Why Barry O’Farrell had to resign
• Waleed Aly: Barry O’Farrell’s Liberal machine as rotten as Labor’s
• Jonathan Green: You don’t need ICAC to see lies in politics
• Richard Ackland: ICAC architect Gary Sturgess should be a household name

Federal Budget

• Laura Tingle: Coalition gets fiscal shivers
• Greg Jericho: Abbott’s vision for Australia: a surplus at whatever cost to people’s lives and The land where entitlement runs riot?
• David Uren: A proper budget fix is not quick
• Mark Kenny: Hockey’s new trick: cutting is really spending

Labor

• Mark Rolfe: Identity crisis: who does the Australian Labor Party represent?

Policy issues

• Daniel Nethery: Two indexes, two very different impacts on pensions
• Peter Browne: The asylum-seeker plan that keeps disappearing over the horizon
• Michael Gordon: There real price of stopping the boats
• Preston Towers: “Too much studying, not enough deciding”

Political profiles

• Gay Alcorn: The underdog bites back

And here’s my posts for the week:

•  Ghosts of turncoats past
• Am I a feminist?
• Green is the new black

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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 11 Feb 2013

Pope, Canberra Times 14 Feb 2013

Politics

• Michael Gordon: Rudd’s long cold shower heats up as leadership stress grows
• Laura Tingle [$]: All about keeping the Stringbags happy
• Paul Kelly: Abbott should avoid risks of small-target plan
• Peter Brent: No escape from polls
• Geoff Gallop: When discipline really matters in politics
• Greg Craven: Watch out, we are in clover
• Katharine Murphy: Katter’s world causing cluster headaches

Policy

• Ross Gittins: Reserve Bank bursts bubble of certainty
• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: We’re not in recession but it feels like we are
• Malcolm Farr: Now we don’t even believe the good news
• Paul Kelly: Labor’s conflict – how to fund its vision without wrecking the economy
• Paul Daley: Mind the gap, right the wrongs
• Peter Brent: It’ll take a change of government
• David Uren: Fundamental tax flaw is that mining doesn’t generate super profits
• Peter Martin: How Canberra got diddled
• Laura Tingle [$]: How a deadly tax divides Labor
• Ben Eltham: Prepare for a Fair Work showdown

Thinky pieces about the media and more

• Jane Gilmore: Losing the narrative
• Jeff Sparrow: Election year’s battle of the beige
• Jonathan Green: The facts won’t speak for themselves
• Don Arthur: Wonkworld vs the Mediaverse
• Tim Dunlop: We need more criticism of the media, not less
• Tad Tietze:  Truth, lies and narratives – What ALP’s crisis is NOT about
• Richard Ackland: Be careful what you defend to the death

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No Crap App: w/b 7 Jan 2013

Moir, SMH 7 Jan 2013

Economists and economic reform

• Peter Martin: When a guess is as good as a forecast
• David Uren: The old masters and ordinary apprentices

Abbott and Gillard

• Stephanie Peatling: Image is everything for leaders*
• Peter van Onselen: Why the Libs won’t change their chief
• Eva Cox: Tony Abbott – a confused, conservative sexist but not a misogynist

The Greens

• Peter Brent: The Greens are economic vandals!
• Judith Ireland: Just how different can the Greens afford to be?

Optional preferential voting

• Christian Kerr: Electoral change may tick the right boxes for some
• Antony Green: The case for optional preferential voting
• Antony Green: The impact of optional preferential voting on the informal vote

The election

• Jennifer Rayner: Will big data change the 2013 election?

*Disclaimer: This excellent article includes political commentary from me 🙂

No Crap App: w/b 27 Aug 2012

The week that was…

It was a HUGE week politically, jammed chock-full with political trade-offs, policy announcements and tragic deaths. The previous week’s political fascination with Tony Abbott’s truthiness had mostly passed, with questions now being raised over the challenge of either party delivering costly new policies when tax receipts are falling.

There were some interesting pieces on how the leaders are faring, quite a bit of soul searching on our continued presence in Afghanistan, and an insightful piece on the scrapping of the floor price for carbon. The additional good reads ponder the purpose of SBS’s Go Back to Where You Came From, feature Shaun Carney’s last piece as he departs the good ship Fairfax, and provide a profile of Greens’ leader Christine Milne.

P.S. When Financial Review articles are not behind the paywall, I have marked them as [free].

How will they/we pay for it?

• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: No avoiding the new tax reality
• David Uren: Denial about deficit as reckless spending rolls on
• Laura Tingle [free]: Game of gazillions – IOU budgets as clouds gather
• Michelle Grattan: A toothy smile behind Labor’s dental plan
• Peter van Onselen: PM’s policy rush leaves Abbott a fiscal headache

Spotlight on the leaders

• Simon Benson: Will Abbott run out of ammo?
• Shaun Carney: Tough at the top, on both sides
• Geoff Kitney [free]: Echoes of Howard with character key for Gillard

The war

• Laurie Oakes: The complex web of unholy alliances
• Dennis Atkins: Mission with not a lot to gain
• Aaron Fernandes: Afghan questions answered in blood
• Tony Walker [free]: Heading into a dead end on Afghanistan

Carbon price

• Ben Eltham: Combet’s calculated risk on carbon

Other important reads

• Jonathan Green: Holding a mirror to a country divided
• Shaun Carney [final column]: Down and out? Leaks that fed Labor’s sinking feeling
• Michael Gordon: Green at heart

Sunday addition

• Sally Neighbour: How we lost the war
• John van Tiggelen: Bill Shorten – Watch this space