No Crap App: w/b 2 Mar 2015

Abbott

• Geoff Kitney: Leadership threat continues to hang over Abbott
• Niki Savva: Bill Shorten’s lesson in leadership
• Jonathan Green: A chance to refocus politics went begging

Intergenerational report and the Budget

• Laura Tingle: Report is not so scary after all
• Peter Martin: Intergenerational Report: How Labor was framed
• Ross Gittins: Joe Hockey turns intergenerational report into a propaganda weapon
• Phil Coorey: Not retreating, just advancing in a different direction
• Lenore Taylor: Joe Hockey wants to talk, but real budget gain might mean swallowing a bitter pill
• Annabel Crabb: Budget ‘inoffensive’ hits Medicare co-payment

Iraq

• Tony Walker: Walking a slippery slope in Iraq

Political profile

• Fleur Anderson: Kelly O’Dwyer’s own looming intergenerational struggle

Other thinkiness

• Monica Attard: Has the hope of a ‘best possible Indonesia’ been killed?
• Greg Jericho: Bipartisanship and its limits

By request, my posts for the week

• Liberals should fear disunity, not Labor
• The reinvention of Scott Morrison

 

 

 

 

No Crap App: w/b 15 Dec 2014

Pope, Canb Times, 20 Dec 2014

Sydney siege

• Monica Attard: Was this our greatest fear?
• Paul Kelly: Probe into possible role of policy failures in the Martin Place tragedy
• Jacqueline Maley: Let there be no doubt: Monis was a terrorist
• Tony Walker: Lone wolves with Facebook friends
• James Brown: Fighting a siege mentality

Budget

• Greg Jericho: Coalition’s previous budget rhetoric has come back to haunt them
• Lenore Taylor: Australia, we have a budget problem, and the ‘solutions’ are underwhelming
• Paul Kelly: Update reveals daunting challenge for a debased political culture
• Michael Gordon: Julie Bishop and the empathy deficit
• David Crowe: Political class stumbles on how to fix our broken budget
• Ross Gittins: Has the Lucky Country lost its ardour and ambition?
• Peter Brent: Why greatness will probably elude Joe

Abbott, Credlin, reshuffle

• Jane Gilmore: Leadership: Hitting the reset button
• Niki Savva: It’s the best and worst of times
• Geoff Kitney: Can Tony Abbott hang on to his leadership?

2014 in review

• Lenore Taylor: Politics in 2014: the Coalition dished out slogans, and its sentence is clear
• Laura Tingle: Exhausted government is searching for alibis

Other thinkiness

• Martin McKenzie-Murray: The year that was: seeking meaning inside a vacuum

By request, my posts for the week:

• Does the ministry ‘stability’ border on stagnation?
• Why the PM’s Peta Problem is not going away
• MYEFO: Why we should care
• Julie Bishop for PM? Unlikely
• 2014: The Year that was (best viewed on tablet)

No Crap App: w/b 22 Sep 2014

Clement, AFR, 26 Sep 2014

Gillard

• Katharine Murphy: Julia Gillard’s memoir is insightful, unflinching and revealing
• David Crowe: Yes Julia, we all made mistakes …
• Paul Kelly: A veil over Labor’s failure and a gloss on Gillard’s greatest hit
• Barrie Cassidy: There’s still life in the Rudd-Gillard stoush

War, terror, freedom

• Katharine Murphy: The acid test: Australian journalists must ask what agenda they serve
• Jonathan Green: Our disconcerting certainty in battling terrorism
• Monica Attard: New laws: Keeping us in peak fear
• Laura Tingle: Voters give leeway to get tough on terrorism
• Phil Coorey: Abbott shines a ‘light on the hill’ in UN address
• Mike Steketee: Abbott faces the reality of multicultural Australia

G20

• Simon Benson: There are high stakes and plenty of snags

Abbott

• Peter Brent: The Abbott conundrum

Shorten

• John Quiggin: Missing in action? Bill Shorten’s “small target” strategy is his only option
• Phil Hudson: Negative focus on Abbott wont’t suffice

AFR Power Feature

• Geoff Kitney: Power in Australia 2014
• Laura Tingle: Can good policy be good politics?
• Tony Walker: Clive Palmer creating disorder in the House

And my posts for the week

• Shorten’s timely transition from ‘no’ to ‘me too’
• The terror bounce
• Trust me (best viewed on a tablet or iPad)

No Crap App: w/b 28 Apr 2014

Moir, SMH 30 Apr 2014

Commission of Audit

• Mark Triffitt: How fat cats are advising us on the rich-poor gap
• Ben Eltham: Commission of Audit: a recipe for poorer, nastier and more brutish Australia
• Ross Gittins: Be afraid, but only mildly so
• Laura Tingle: New tax talk rudely awakens voters
• Lenore Taylor: It’s Henny Penny v Pollyana in the battle over the budget

Budget

• Peter Brent: Message for the war room
• Jonathan Green: Budget realities overtake rhetoric
• Greg Jericho: Australia needs revenue reform, and tinkering with income tax won’t cut it
• Tom Allard: New tax on risk could seal Tony Abbott’s fate
• Mark Kenny: Tony Abbott playing the longer game
• Michael Gordon: Abbott and Co must make an honest call on budget
• Laura Tingle: Budget and ICAC cost Abbott high moral ground

Electoral and party reform

• Tony Walker: NSW still seeking to stop the rot
• Shaun Crowe: Changing the members means changing Labor
• Casey Briggs: Is this the end of the micro party?
• Quentin Dempster: Will party donations be banned in NSW?

Political profiles

• Deborah Snow: Svengali of spin
• Brett Evans: The insurgent from Indi
• Geoff Kitney: Mathias Cormann: A tale of two lives

And my posts for the week

• Cyclone Clive could tear through minor parties
• Direct Action: a load of meh
• Tony’s brain fart – whoever smelt it

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No Crap App: w/b 26 Aug 2013

Leak, Aust Aug 2013

Rudd/Labor

• Jack Waterford: Same old stuff from the ‘new’ chief Kevin Rudd
• Gay Alcorn: Gillard’s ghost haunts Rudd’s second coming
• The Piping Shrike: AdWatch – Labor’s negative ads
• Laura Tingle: Rudd’s thought bubble is about to burst 
• Geoff Kitney: Labor’s very own black hole a free pass for Abbott
• Paul Kelly: Chaos haunts Labor
• Tony Walker: The Rudd experiment has failed
• Russell Marks: Why would a social democrat vote Labor?
• Tad Tietze: Hatred of politics (and a complicated bereavement)

Abbott/Coalition

• Geoff Kitney: Don’t be too wet, Tony
• Ross Gittins: Checkmate spells fiscal indiscipline
• Greg Jericho: We’re no closer to seeing the Coalition’s sums
• Scott Brenton: Marginal maths adds up for Abbott
• Michael Gawenda: Luck be Labor for an Abbott cabinet

Voting

• Antony Green: Senate voting threatens more than our eyesight

Media

• Jonathan Green: Reading isn’t believing when it comes to newspapers