No Crap App: w/b 8 June 2015

Rowe, AFR 10 June 2015

 

• Jane Gilmore: How malevolent buffoonery became the new normal of Australian leadership
• Greg Jericho: This is Australia’s debate on economics and security? No wonder we’re dissatisfied
• Michael Gordon: Abbott’s green light to people smugglers
• James Massola: Treasurer Joe Hockey’s gaffes on housing have put more lead in the federal government’s saddle-bags
• Fleur Anderson: Want to know how to fix the housing market and win an election? Don’t bother
• David Crowe: Security concerns must be followed to the letter
• Paul Kelly: The tricky politics complicate the citizenship debate
• Alex Frankel: Progressives failing to tell the Big Story

By request, my posts for the week:

• Flicking the switch from opposition to alternative government
• Just stop digging! Joe Hockey’s housing hate spiral

No Crap App: w/b 25 May 2015

Pope, Canb Times 26 May 2015

Government

• Phil Coorey: Dumb policy keeps Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey in polling peril
• Greg Jericho: Driven to distraction
• Lenore Taylor: Debacle over terrorism and citizenship is leak-based policy in its purest form
• Laura Tingle: The Abbott government’s terrorism Bingo! Playing chicken on national security
• Michael Gordon: Citizenship: it’s Abbott facing exile
• Andrew Probyn: Next federal election shaping up to be best of worst

Labor

• Paul Rodan: Is this the only leader less likely than Tony Abbott to win the next election?
• David Crowe: Bill Shorten’s same-sex initiative baffles like-minded Libs
• Jonathan Green: Same-sex marriage is an easy vote for MPs unwilling to tackle broader social issues
• Niki Savva: Conroy and Wong lead the charge as Labor goes to war with itself

Greens

• Sophie Morris: Richard Di Natale’s plans to reboot the Australian Greens

Other thinkiness

• Malcolm Farnsworth: An early election?

By request, my posts for the week

•  Shorten needs to refine his brand of attack
• Sloppy Joe’s loose lips land the PM in hot water

No Crap App: w/b 18 May 2015

Rowe, AFR 23 May 2015

Budget

• Alan Kohler: Modern budgets are exercises in spin – and this year was no exception
• Greg Jericho: If you’re going to compare levels of income and welfare, do it fairly
• Phil Coorey: Consistency, not whiplash, is key to political success
• Ross Gittins: Dishonest to resist curbs on spending and oppose higher taxes
• Lenore Taylor: Belt up, fellow Australians: we’re in for another Big Stupid tax debate

Asylum seekers

• Daniel Flitton: Foreign policy compromised by asylum seeker solution

Abbott

• Mark Kenny: Abbott’s policy flip-flopping is a bit of a worry

Labor

• David Crowe: Bill Shorten’s weapons losing firepower

Political profiles

• Cameron Atfield: New Senator Joanna Lindgren ‘no’ on same-sex marriage

Other

• Alan Ramsey: The Faulkner papers a rich treasure trove for the National Archives
• Tim Dunlop: Is democracy rapidly making way for oligarchy?

By request, my posts for the week

• An equity war could stifle the post-budget glow
• Throw-away lines that backfired

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 27 Apr 2015

Pope, Canb Times 1 May 2015

Bali 9 executions

• Greg Jericho: Indonesia, Australia and the Bali 9 – when symbolism becomes substance
• Amy Maguire: Hard line on refugees undermines principled opposition to execution
• Tony Walker: Challenge is to restore balance with Jakarta
• Piping Shrike: The New Regionalism – another update

Marriage equality

• Royce Millar & Ben Schneiders: Why is the union that represents supermarket workers stopping gay marriage?

Recognition

• Paul Kelly: Polarising forces threaten to derail bid for indigenous recognition

Other thinkiness

• Malcolm Farnsworth: The rush of events, the ballast of history
• Jonathan Green: We’ve nothing to fear but our sense of certainty
• George Megalogenis: History repeats
• Jane Gilmore: The “One in Three” claim about male domestic violence is a myth

By request, my articles for the week

• Greens become the very thing they rebelled against
• The best of times, the worst of times
• Piece by piece, Malcolm Turnbull is selling his soul

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