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 11 May 2015

Lobbecke, Aust 12 May 2015

Budget

• Ross Gittins: Small measures and a media circus
• Michael Pascoe: The Law of Unintended Consequences hits Happy Joe
• Tim Colebatch: The budget: mostly normal, partly unreal
• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott’s budget promises and Labor’s reply are both about expediency
• Laura Tingle: Tony Abbott sharpens his election tools
• Paul Kelly: Abbott-Shorten conflicts clear after 2015 budget
• James Massola: Bringing home the bacon, saving the base
• Dennis Atkins: Budget shows Tony Abbott’s capacity to fight back should never be underestimated
• Jonathan Green: We’ve fallen through the ideological looking glass
• Ben Eltham: George Brandis’ extraordinary raid of the Australia Council

PPL

• David Crowe: Foot still dangerously close to mouth
• Andrew Probyn: Confessions of a double-dipping rorter
• Peter Martin: Could the Coalition have been any dumber?

Labor

• Laurie Oakes: Bill Shorten must act like a leader
• Troy Bramston: Lessons in British election for Shorten and ALP

And also…

• Katharine Murphy: Australian budget week: five things we learned

By request, my posts for the week

• Government rolls dice on Labor-lite budget
• Promising fairness, delivering incompetence
• Budget week bun fight

 

No Crap App: w/b 19 Jan 2015

Letch, SMH 22 Jan 2015

Abbott

• James Massola: 2015 shaping up to wake political opponents from mid-term slumber
• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott’s trust deficit disaster is paralysing his government
• Peter van Onselen: Scoring cheap points does not become a prime minister
• Peter Brent: Killing Season 2015
• Terry Barnes: Abbott damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t
• Fleur Anderson: Abbott reboot slips up as government searches for a story
• Dale Hughes: The power politics of Tony Abbott’s leadership woes

Labor

• David Crowe: Making Labor accountable
• Don Watson: Whitlam’s ghost

Political profile

• Lenore Taylor: Ricky Muir: I’m finding my feet now

Other thinkiness

• Stephanie Peatling: Politics is failing us, but we can fix it
• John Gordon: Why parties should aim for the middle ground
• Yvette Blackwood: From your moderator, on the occasion of her farewell

By request, my posts for the week

• Signs of mutiny on the Good Ship Abbott
• Why Nick Xenophon is the most powerful man in Australia
• Voters forgive leadership change, but not disunity

 

 

 

 

No Crap App: 18 Aug 2014

Knight, Herald Sun 20 Aug 2014

Abbot & the Government

• Greg Jericho: Government by hints and whispers
• Jane Gilmore: No politics in their politics
• Lenore Taylore: Team Australia needs a captain who is prepared to listen to all members
• Phil Coorey: The reasons behind Joe Hockey’s big budget U-turn
• Chris Wallace: Joe’s own goals
• Laura Tingle: Coalition behind in budget blame game
• David Crowe: Bipartisanship a victim of political war
• Mike Steketee: Tax overhaul could be ticket to success
• Ben Eltham: NSW ICAC hearings look like they’ve spooked the ponies in the federal stable
• Michael Gawenda: Not even Cabinet knows the ‘real’ Abbott
• Monica Attard: Och aye … it’s Tony McAbbott
• Jack Waterford: Why I won’t play for Team Australia

 Shorten & Labor

• Peter Brent: Four years on
• Paul Kelly: The tragedy of Kevin Rudd can be traced to a personality flaw
• James Massola: Bill Shorten faces up to rape allegations by attempting to speak out first

Palmer

• Ben Eltham: Looks like crunch time is coming for Clive and company
• Phil Coorey: Palmer taps into a deep vein of political mistrust

Other thinkiness

• Katharine Murphy: We must look past shock tactics like a child holding a severed head in Syria
• Tony Walker: How should we deal with horror?
• Jeff Sparrow: The propaganda coup and the obliging media
• Dennis Atkins: Days of the highly skilled Treasury may be numbered

And my posts for the week:

• Is the budget Palmer’s plaything no more?
• Morrison’s born-again compassion

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No Crap App: w/b 16 Jun 2014

Campbell, Canberra Times 18 Jun 2014

Budget

• Steven Scott: Don’t rule out Tony Abbott calling a snap election if he can’t pass budget bills
• Greg Jericho: Joe Hockey: all’s fair in welfare and budgets

Senate

• Phil Coorey: Tony Abbott braces for amateur hour in the Senate
• Deborah Snow & James Massola: United force or a rabble? The face of the new Senate

Coalition

• Sophie Morris: John Williams, Ian Macdonald, Cory Bernardi: enemies within
• Kevin Bonham: Turnbull PM: Not likely any time soon
• Ben Eltham: Coalition won’t have the courage to call an election

Labor

• Laurie Oakes: An overlooked hero of reform

Other thinkiness

• Michael Gordon: Our politics needs to change. Here’s how
• Phil Hudson: Wheels of change grind round at last as Senate departure lounge fills
• Peter Brent: Where are the regions?
• Mark Fletcher: The school chaplains case was a Trojan horse for states’ rights activism
• Preston Towers: Put Down the Graphs, Wonks and Pick up the Megaphones – WonkyTips in the Guardian
• John Warhurst: Official inquiries shine light on the dark side of human nature

 And my posts for the week:

• The Greens play tough but will avoid double trouble
• The new three word slogan
•  The one election promise they’ve kept