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 4 Aug 2014

Rowe, AFR 7 Aug 2014

Coalition/Abbott

• Lenore Taylor: Everyone has a piece of advice for Tony Abbott 
• Jack Waterford: No short cuts with political leadership
• Dennis Shanahan: Fears of Rudd-era dysfunction after government’s horror week
• Paul Kelly: Abbott governs but fails to persuade

Counter-terrorism

• Peter Hartcher: Tony Abbott struggles to transcend the role of tribal chief
• Michael Gordon: Dog days for team Abbott

Racial Discrimination Act

• Waleed Aly: Abbott’s 18C puzzle: linking terror and free speech raises interesting political questions
• Laura Tingle: Liberal Party cuts 18C loose rather than get dragged under
• Gay Alcorn: Racial vilification laws: checkmate for Andrew Bolt – and George Brandis’s ego
• Laurie Oakes: Coalition’s geese in a real flap

Political profiles

• Sophie Morris: George Brandis’ political crusades win him no fans
• Laura Tingle: Treasurer Joe Hockey struggles to build a bankable image
• Jamie Walker: Why Christopher Pyne is a man in a hurry

Other thinkiness

• Monica Attard: Why the UN is so hopeless
• Peter Brent: If an election had be held on the weekend

And my posts for the week:

• Letting a good PPL be buried in the name of fairness
• A lie a day keeps the … oh who cares?
• Sorry you can’t be a bigot after all
• The hard-right’s poster boy

No Crap App: w/b 9 Jun 2014

Pope,, 13 Jun 2014

Coalition

• Michael Gawenda: The Liberals’ radical turn on climate change
• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott is no action man on climate
• Niki Savva: Abbott won’t sweat over climate
• Peter Hartcher: Tony Abbott and Stephen Harper’s maple-syrup mateship has a sour taste
• Tad Tietze: Post-Budget: Just what the hell is Abbott up to?

Labor

• Laura Tingle: Budget own goal gives Labor change to regroup

Palmer

• Tony Walker: Palmer will be a ruthless dealer in Senate
• Sophie Morris: Clive Palmer’s bold bid to build his Senate bloc

Independents

• Gay Alcorn: Democracy seeks a new voice

 Budget

• Peter van Onselen: The Sisyphean task of selling the reforms we had to have

Media

• Jim Parker: Stuck inside of mobile

And my posts for the week

•  Abbott must learn from the PMs of old
• Warning: politicians on training wheels 

 

 

No Crap App: w/b 5 May 2014

Pope, Canberra Times, 9 May 2014

Budget

• Peter Brent: A bubble apart
• Katharine Murphy: Tony Abbott’s chance to show the courage of his convictions
• Paul Kelly: Wake-up call after long night of phoney dreams
• Michael Gordon: Tuesday’s federal budget is Abbott’s biggest gamble
• Greg Jericho: Family tax benefit cuts will hurt the average family more than a levy
• Ross Gittins: Let’s have a levy on self-interest to fix the deficit

Lobbying and political fundraising

• Tony Walker: Death to lobbying and schmoozing

Policies

• Adam Creighton: Retirement riches can’t go on like this
• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott’s grand infrastructure plan may be an expensive road to nowhere
• Gabrielle Chan: Coalition has budget blind spot when it comes to the rural poor

Trust

• Gay Alcorn: The political powers that be have lost our trust
• Phil Coorey: PM’s broken promises will now haunt his tenure

Political profile

• Michael McGuire: Jamie Briggs, rising star and game changer

Other thinkiness

• Jonathan Holmes: Investigative journalism: why we need it more than ever
• Jonathan Green: News photography lost in a digital sea of words

And my posts for the week:

• Lock up the war chest for fairer elections
• Political access for sale
• Tony’s ‘gone negative’, so who’s next?

 

 

No Crap App: w/b 21 Apr 2014

Pope, Canb Times 25 Apr 2014

The parties

• Norman Abjorensen: More than a fraction too much faction
• Tad Tietze: After Barry’s fall: Anti-politics, authority and corruption
• Piping Shrike: The ties that bind
• Troy Bramston: New dawn, but is ALP awake to the truth?
• Sophie Morris: Inside Bill Shorten’s party war room
• Peter Brent: The most important reform
• Laura Tingle: Shorten’s reform-or-perish pitch
• Phil Coorey: PM confronts the size of his Palmer problem

The policies

• El Gibbs: Valuing the work of care
• Greg Jericho: Australia has it pretty damn good – so why aren’t we cheering?
• Ben Eltham: Air superiority, but at what cost?
• Gay Alcorn: Racial vilification laws: maybe we don’t need them

The budget

• Peter Martin: Look the other way for Treasurer Joe Hockey’s budget crisis
• Greg Jericho: Coalition banks on blind faith in budget ‘fix’
• Chris Berg: Election promises are there for the breaking
• Dennis Atkins: Treasurer Joe Hockey’s hard sell on his tough first Budget
• Simon Benson: Joe Hockey’s pension bomb
• Peter van Onselen: A touch of Swan in the Hockey game

Wran

• Rodney Cavalier: Neville’s life lived in good measure
• Wendy Bacon: Wran, the Balmain Boy gone bad

Anzac Day

• Jonathan Green: Why must a war define us?
• Fatima Measham: The problem with being defined by war

Political profiles

• Tom Switzer: Reading Burke in Sydney: Tony Abbott’s Sensible Conservatism

Other thinkiness

• Katharine Murphy: We can handle the truth – give us the insights, the nitty-gritty

And my posts for the week:

• Shine a light on shady lobbying
• ALP: surveying the stinking carcass