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 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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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 1 Dec 2014

Lobbecke, The Australian 6 Dec 2014

Abbott’s woes

• Jack Waterford: Tony Abbott should be looking to the message, rather than the messenger
• David Crowe: Tony Abbott must start listening
• Dennis Atkins: Why Tony Abbott’s government is in deep trouble
• Dennis Shanahan: Cruising in opposition, adrift in government
• Jonathan Green: Is history repeating itself already for Tony Abbott?
• Michael Gordon: Prime Minister Tony Abbott is feeling the heat after a ‘ragged’ year
• Lenore Taylor: The Coalition’s own messages are neither coherent nor convincing

Budget

• Tim Colebatch: More reasons why the Abbott budget is so hard to sell
• Jane Gilmore: CSIRO cuts: be very alarmed

Victorian election

• Ben Eltham: Victoria’s Swing To The Left: Eltham’s Analysis Of Saturday’s Result
• Stephen Mills: Rules for Radicals comes to Carrum
• Wendy Harmer: “You should have seen this coming, guys.”

End-of-year thinkiness

• Peter Browne: Gap year
• Lenore Taylor: Three things a good government would do
• Katharine Murphy: Five things we’ve learned from the year in politics
• Greg Jericho: ‘Year of delivery’ draws to a close, but are voters buying it?

Other crunchy brain food

• Greg Jericho: Don’t use Hughes’ death to beat your own drum
• Monica Attard: Julie Bishop goes nuclear

By request, my posts for the week

• Chief of staff job too big for one person
• Sorry Clive, honeymoon’s over
• Are pollies kids fair game in political journalism?
• Here’s your lump of coal. Merry Xmas.
• Class of 2014

No Crap App: w/b 17 Nov 2014

Knight, Herald Sun 17 Nov 2014

Apologies for the lack of No Crap App last week.

PUP, FOFA, Lambie etc

• David Crowe: FOFA folly was easily avoidable
• Lenore Taylor: Jacqui Lambie’s Fofa stand: a bunch of fives for Clive, a bunch of six for Tony
• Sophie Morris: Labor rallies crossbench senators over FOFA reforms
• Simon Copland: Will Lambie be the new Palmer?
• John Warhurst: Small parties prone to split, but some elected members prosper as independents

China FTA/G20

• Mike Steketee: Free trade Agreement no guarantee of success
• Greg Jericho: Why isn’t the government being held to account on the China free trade deal?
• Monica Attard: How much have they over-promised?
• Greg Jericho: Tony Abbott’s climate change struggle
• Tom Switzer: Abbott will soon look like a genius for refusing to drag Australia to yet another climate fiasco

Labor

• Troy Bramston: Comrades look to Tanya Plibersek

Political profiles

• Madonna King: Less of a Bishop, more of a Pope

Other thinkiness

• Katharine Murphy: ABC, climate change: the Coalition is drowning us in nonsense
• Peter Brent: What the Senate is telling us about big-party politics
• Tad Tietze: Reply to Callinicos on anti-politics & social struggle
• Norman Abjorensen: Tiger by the tail
• Preston Towers: Applying the whip – The Oz giving tips to their horse
• Jonathan Green: When broken promises become tests of character
• Jane Gimore: Greens should take their sex work principles seriously
• Amy Gray: Mark Latham read my mind. Of course I hate my daughter- I’m a feminist

My posts, by request:

• Abbott’s tough talking comes undone at the G20
• Lambie doesn’t want to stay, doesn’t want to quit
• Stop ‘left-plaining’ feminism to Bishop
• Shorten – do we want another Abbott?
• China FTA – What do we get?