No Crap App: 6 Jul 2015

Rowe, AFR 8 Jul 2015

• Gay Alcorn: Look past Bill Shorten – this was an interrogation of our political system
• Tony Walker: Bill Shorten and Labor’s leadership dilemma
• Katharine Murphy: Bill Shorten at the royal commission: no killer blow, but now for the aftermath
• Niki Savva: Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten in bad odour with electorate
• Laura Tingle: Ministers’ comments show an unhappy government
• Katharine Murphy: Tony Abbott’s pointless whims uncover those who refuse to minister to him
• Dennis Atkins: The royal commission has exposed systemic greed and personal gain in trade unions

By request, my posts for the week

• Liberal right is all bark, no bite on same-sex marriage
• Richard Di Natale’s big gamble with the Greens
• Bill Shorten feels the slow burn of royal commission’s interrogation
• Will the real Bill Shorten please stand up
• Pollies escape scrutiny as Shorten is grilled

 

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

 

No Crap App: w/b 4 May 2015

Knight, Herald Sun

Budget

• Andrew Probyn: Treasurer Joe Hockey facing his crunch time
• Dennis Atkins: Abbott Government’s future rests on its crucial second Budget
• Michael Gordon: Tony Abbott gambles on the fairness factor
• David Crowe: Politics of distortion is a poor match for fair-minded debate
• Lenore Taylor: Coalition’s unwillingness to tax means commitment to fairness won’t last
• Ross Gittins: The budget circus isn’t the whole show
• Peter Martin: Expect a do-nothing budget that will cost us time
• Jonathan Green: Budget will be a true test of authenticity

Labor

• Troy Bramston: ‘Consultation draft’ platform shows Labor is anchored in the past

Greens

• Sophie Morris: Milne, Di Natale and Greens’ deliberate leadership coup
• Greg Jericho: How Di Natale hopes to grow the Greens vote
• Tad Tietze: The Greens after Milne: Running out of options?

Other thinkiness

• Malcolm Farnsworth: History doesn’t repeat

By request, my articles for the week

• Political leaks leave voters in the dark
• Egalitarianism is under threat?
• Was Christine Milne pushed or did she jump?
• Scott Morrison steals the show

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 23 Feb 2015

Photo: Ellinghausen, SMH 27 Feb 2015

Liberal leadership (in roughly chronological order)

• William Bowe: Poll Bludger: dead-cat bounce for Tony, with Malcolm lurking in the wings
• Peter Hartcher: Tony Abbott clutching at straws in attempt to protect remaining support base
• Niki Savva: Peta Credlin’s toxic lecture to ‘gossips’
• Peter van Onselen: Throwing the media dogs a daily bone, it’s the government way
• David Crowe: Liberals hoping to dump Abbott find their Macbeth is a little Dusty
• Peter Hartcher: Baird effect v Abbott effect: A precarious balance
• Lenore Taylor: Paranoia grips Liberals as self-defeating Abbott lurches from one disaster to the next
• Laura Tingle: Tony Abbott in a swamp along with reform
• Sophie Morris: Plotting the anti-Tony Abbott forces
• Tony Walker: Abbott ignored all the key lessons
• Paul Kelly: Abbott faces leadership spill again, but Turnbull wants to wait

Triggs

• Jonathan Green: The speech Abbott could have made about Triggs
• Annabel Crabb: Triggs takes the punches that should be hitting Labor

Other thinkiness

• Dennis Atkins: Social Services Minister Scott Morrison is transforming himself but can a leopard really change its spots?
• Greg Jericho: Pro tip to the government – don’t forget to use your incumbency
• Tim Dunlop: Is media objectivity an outdated model?
• Tracey Spicer: Crying bias a tired “old media” story
• Elizabeth Humphrys: Anti-politics and the illusions of neoliberalism
• Tim Colebatch: Polls and preferences: the new challenge for election watchers

By request, my posts for the week

•  So much for a “more consultative” PM
• Can Abbott survive his “war on terror”?
• Abbott’s flagging fortunes on full, proud display
• Scott Morrison a beacon of hope and danger for PM