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• Tim Dunlop: Is media objectivity an outdated model?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

No Crap App: w/b 8 Dec 2014

Pope, Canb Times, 10 Dec 2014

Credlin free zone

• Dennis Atkins: The year of riding dangerously
• Steven Scott: Treasurer Joe Hockey’s gaffes and poor salesmanship have to end as he prepares for his Budget update
• Lenore Taylor: Coalition’s own messages are neither coherent nor convincing
• Greg Jericho: Electorate left seeing red, but will the Government take off rose-coloured glasses?
• Waleed Aly: Nothing can wipe the smile off this mug
• Paul Kelly (with minimal Credlin): Abbott’s barnacle removal essential to Liberal reboot
• Tim Dunlop: Tony Abbott is not the problem
• Jonathan Green: As the year unwinds, the Government unravels
• Piping Shrike: Positioning
• Tony Walker: The problem stalking Australia’s halls of economic power
• Peter Brent: Bragging rights
• Gabrielle Chan: A Country Round: should the Nationals rethink their place in the Coalition

What to do about Peta (not Peter)

• Lenore Taylor: By fighting so hard for the PM, Peta Credlin has put Abbott in a corner
• Anne Summers: For Peta Credlin, the gender card has been dealt again
• Laura Tingle: The curse of Rudd descends onto Abbott’s office
• Peter van Onselen: Peta Credlin has become the story and that’s bad news for Tony Abbott
• Dennis Shanahan: Peta Credlin and Joe Hockey not to be replaced
• David Crowe (more ministry than Credlin): Ring the political changes

Asylum seekers

• Paul Syvret: Abbott Government’s legislation makes Australia a rogue state regarding international law and human rights
• Michael Gordon: Scott Morrison’s headlock politics rule

Political profiles

• Jane Cadzow: Eyes on the prize: would-be PM Bill Shorten
• John van Tiggelen: Sense and Sensibility: Tanya Plibersek plays it cool
• Sophie Morris: David Morrison breaking the brass ceiling in the ADF

Other thinkiness

• Liz Humphrys & Tad Tietze: Abolishing the present state of things

By request, my posts for the week

• Abbott must heed past mistakes, not repeat them
• Please not childcare too
• Defence of Credlin a career-limiting move?
• Tribute to a Labor warrior

No Crap App: w/b 27 Oct 2014

Bill Leak, The Australian

Julie Bishop and feminism

• Nathan Lentern: We will decide who identifies as a feminist, and the circumstances in which they identify

National security etc

• Monica Attard: Come clean on ISIS and us, Mr Abbott
• Laura Tingle: Avalanche of legislation leaves voters reeling

Federalism, GST etc

• Mark Fletcher: Tony Abbott was right then and wrong now. The federation is still Australia’s biggest problem
• Dennis Atkins: After four years of kicking, Tony Abbott is now hugging on federalism
• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott is right – we need more bipartisan solutions. But is he genuine?
• Greg Jericho: Tony Abbott’s call for GST reform smacks of hypocrisy
• Peter Brent: The GST trap
• Jack Waterford: Federation a tussle about power, not principles

Political profiles

• Sophie Morris: PUP senator Jacqui Lambie: ‘I will get up and leave’ and Milne considers Greens’ future
• Adele Ferguson: John ‘Wacka’ WIlliams – the sheep-shearing senator taking on big business

Other thinkiness

• Peter Shergold: Modern mandarins — fearful and politicised?
• Jane Gilmore: Listen up ladies, step up to the mic
• Elizabeth Humphrys: Klein’s ‘shock doctrine’ thesis & the Whitlam dismissal
• Elle Hardy: Selfies are the new form of radical protest
• David Marr: Australia in 2014: ‘stop the boats’ helps nation feel warmer to immigrants
• Tim Dunlop: A ‘lottery’ electoral system could break our malaise
• Shaun Crowe: Brand is the pied piper of anti-politics – don’t follow
• Greg Jericho: Climate policy hijacked by cost of living debate

By request, my posts for the week

• Like it or not: everything is politics
• The PM’s PPL pet project – give it up
• The real reason women of the right will never call themselves feminists
• Nova Peris and our witch-hunt mentality
• Bishop’s move (best viewed on an iPad or other tablet)

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: fortnight beginning 21 Oct 2013

Pope, Canberra Times, 24 Oct 2013

Coalition

• Jack Waterford: One for the pin, not a sword
• Peter Hartcher: Barbed wire fence tangle for PM
• Laura Tingle: Commission of Audit’s contribution will be crucial
• Greg Jericho: Australia’s debt ceiling – the right decision but with a touch of irony
• Barrie Cassidy: How long can the ministerial sound of silence last?
• Laurie Oakes: The power and the arrogance

Labor

• Katharine Murphy: Bruce Hawker’s diary – a memoir deeply fascinating for all the wrong reasons
• Mark Kenny: Labor hurting, but not all was lost
• James Massola: Labor still cannot bring itself to recognise Abbott
• Laura Tingle: Labor high and dry as the Left misses Abbott’s boat

And more ….

• Michael Gawenda: One million votes against politics
• Liz Humphrys and tad Tietze: Anti-politics – the elephant in the room
• Tim Dunlop: The future of Australian electoral politics
• Don Watson: Tony Abbott apologises

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