No Crap App: w/b 22 Dec 2014

Lobbecke, Aust 27 Dec 2014

Abbott Government

• Greg Craven: Labor and Liberals need to deal with each other to regain respect
• Paul Kelly: Tricky year ahead for Tony Abbott after a dismal 2014
• Jacqueline Maley: Women expect a better half from Team Abbott

Reshuffle

• Peter van Onselen: Reshuffle unlikely to be the last
• Tim Dunlop: The more things shuffle, more they stay the same
• Peter Brent: Scott down, Julie to go
• Norman Abjorensen: Ministry changes to stifle any Bishop challenge

Sydney siege

• Piping Shrike: Home front – an update
• Leigh Sales: ‘Ordinary days’ that go disastrously wrong rattle our sense of security

Policy

• El Gibbs: Scott Morrison needs to realise the Disability Support Pension actually saves money and lives

Political profile

• Tony Walker: Glenn Druery: the toned vote peddler

By request, my posts for the week

• Ministry reshuffle built on paranoia, not progress
• Our second “woman of merit”

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 13 Oct 2014

Knight, Herald Sun 15 Oct 2014

War on terror

• Jacqueline Maley: Angry young man problem crosses cultures

Labor

• Phil Hudson: Shorten ahead in polls but ALP vote languishes

Policies

• Paul Kelly: New climate change battlefront pits Abbott against the anti-coal brigade
• Niki Savva: Tony Abbott’s own side may put paid to parental leave
• Ben Eltham: The poor will always be with us
• Gary Banks: Reform ended when the politics got ugly

Other thinkiness

• Luke Johnson: Loaded questions behind Lateline blowup
• Monica Attard: What happened to live and let live?
• Peter Brent: Shock of the new

By request: my posts for the week

• Conservatives also face sexism
• Abbott: The brawler lurks beneath
• The questionable loyalty of Athony Albanese

No Crap App: w/b 1 Sep 2014

Pope, 3 Sep 2014

 

First year of Abbott Government

• Michael Gordon: Happy birthday, Prime Minister?
• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott one year on: how the trust was won and lost
• Laura Tingle: Tony Abbott: the first year
• Tony Walker: Abbott must beware of overreach
• Phil Coorey: From a low-key pragmatist to a global activist
• Michelle Grattan: Tony Abbott’s year of living ideologically
• Peter Hartcher: Abbott unmasked: ideological warrior marches to the right
• Peter Brent: Why the first-year flatline?
• Nick Feik: The year of ruling dangerously
• Peter Martin: Hockey has the right instincts, but a long way to go

Mining tax repeal

• Ben Eltham: The mining tax abolition is a great victory for foreign wealth over common cents
• Laura Tingle: Both sides dig in for a war of policy attrition
• Peter Martin: Not so super: Labor’s dumb idea

Shorten and Labor

• Katharine Murphy: Labor’s first year in the wilderness
• Jacqueline Maley: Bill Shorten plays Labor’s Mr Right Now well enough
• Michael Gawenda: Can Shorten do the hard yards to bring Labor back?

Political profiles

• Fleur Anderson: The very different politician – Andrew Leigh
• David Marr: Freedom Abbott

Other thinkiness

• Sally Young: Freud would have a field day with our politicians
• Kellie Riordan: Does journalism still require impartiality?

My columns and posts for the week:

• It’s anything but ‘situation normal’ for the Government
• Socks, jocks and Tony Abbott
• Jacqui Lambie: the PUP is outgrowing the kennel
• All about Jacqui (best read using a tablet)

 

No Crap App: w/b 30 Jun 2014

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