Pope, Canberra Times 3 Jul 2014
Asylum seekers
- Lenore Taylor: Yes, Tony Abbott has ‘stopped the boats’. But the cost is catastrophic
- Jack Waterford: We will remember – but without pride
Surveillance
- Sophie Morris: George Brandis’s creeping spy powers
Budget
- David Crowe: Abbott paints himself into a corner over budget savings
- Mark Kenny: The wild ride is just beginning for Abbott
- Phil Coorey: Tony Abbott and his fading $25 billion sales pitch
Welfare reform
- El Gibbs: Can you work? That’s all the Australian Government wants to know
- Stella Young: Disabling rorters? More like punishing the scapegoats
- Greg Jericho: Hang on, youths already earn and learn
Palmer
- Niki Savva: Palmer making the PM’s job that much harder
- Lenore Taylor: Clive Palmer: I just have my brain, which is pretty effective
Abbott
- Paul Daley: Australia ‘unsettled’ before the British came? Tony Abbott knows better
- Peter van Onselen: Abbott trapped in downward spiral all of his making
Party reform
- Geoff Gallop: What should Labor stand for?
- John Warhurst: How do they get the people to the party
Climate change politics
- Evan Beaver: When Ciev comes to town
- Peter Brent: Dancing in the dark
- Greg Foyster: The question greenies are too afraid to discuss
- Jonathan Holmes: Scientists try new tack to win over sceptics
- Phillip Chubb: Carbon pricing: how Labor failed the nation
Political profile
- Jacqueline Maley: Sarah Ferguson on 7.30 and what makes her tick
Other thinkiness
- Tony Walker: The best way to play a dragon
- Katharine Murphy: A week of transitions in politics: five things to ponder
- Paul Kelly: Politics in crisis and a nation in denial
- Tim Dunlop: The right hates the society it has created
- Sarah Burnside: It’s the ideology, stupid! Australians aren’t as pragmatic as we think
- Tim Dunlop: The slow death of the Australian middle class
And my posts for the week:
- Green groups struggle to turn anger to action
- First day of Senate kindy
- Smoke and mirrors: What Clive Palmer’s really up to
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