No Crap App: w/b 31 Mar 2014

Pope, Canberra Times 1 April 2014

Abbott

• Niki Savva: Abbott needs to stick with the plan
• Peter van Onselen: Time won’t always be on PM’s side, so why waste it?

Greens

• Mark Kenny: Greens take democracy when it suits them
• Sarah Burnside: Scott Ludlam v the Wild West

Econofacts

• Greg Jerico: 838,100 new jobs, but few with blue collars
• Peter Martin: Joe Hockey is right to pressure states not to cut their debts
• Jennifer Hewett: Parkinson’s ‘glass half-full’ still a warning
• Mark Kenny: The budget hole is too deep for mere politicians

Thinkiness

• Don Watson: The conservative crusade against the ABC

And if you’re interested, here’s my posts for the week:

•  Hockey steps in to clean up the mess
• Do we need to know about Peta Credlin?

 

No Crap App: w/b 10 Mar 2014

Pope, Canberra Times, 11 March 2014

State elections

• Tony Walker: Come Saturday, Liberals could rule from coast to coast
• Laura Tingle: Logic lost as state polls paralyse decision making
• Laurie Oakes: Spot the PM’s change of view

Freedom of speech

• Michael Gordon: A war of words over words that wound

Unions and IR

• Jennifer Hewett: Howes, a very modern unionist
• Ross Gittins: Labor markets and the human factor
• Greg Jericho: Coalition wages blunt IR campaign

Climate action

• Gay Alcorn: Climate change bad guys apply heat to Labor

Economy

• Laura Tingle: Why you might be wrong about the economy
• Peter Martin: Smoke and mirrors with red-tape ghosts
• Greg Jericho: Abbott’s paid parental leave will do little to bring women to the workforce

Other thinkiness

• Tim Dunlop: Social media has nothing on these political disasters
• Jonathan Green: The real politics of the possible

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No Crap App: w/b 22 April 2013

AFR 27 April 2013

• Phil Coorey [$]: Promises, promises – Coalition on the back foot
• Geoff Kitney [$]: Politicians dodge bullet they should bite
• Jennifer Hewett [$]: Gillard gets credit for school reform, Abbott pays for it
• Barrie Cassidy: Laying down the cudgels and debating policy
• Ben Eltham: Sing along to the budget blues
• Ross Gittins: Deficit realities finally dawn on all
• Marcus Priest [$]: Climate of chaos – the backroom deals that set a government’s agenda

Politics

• Dennis Atkins: Politicians who parrot party lines are simply pointless
• Rob Burgess: Abbott is the Coalition’s sacrificial lamb
• Geoff Kitney [$]: Nations get political leadership they deserve
• Tony Wright: Something has been broken at the heart of politics

Meanwhile…

• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Virtual manhunts and perils of unfiltered news
• Jonathan Green: News you can trust is worth the wait
• Tim Dunlop: The slippery slop of sponsored content
• Terry Moran: Digging ministerial advisors out of the accountability black hole

Longer read

• Sonya Voumard: The Canberra Correspondent

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No Crap App: w/b 10 Dec 2012

Moir, SMH 11 Dec 2012

FM radio pranksters

• Katharine Murphy: No one is laughing now
• Preston Towers: Destroying the joint? Austereo and our moral and social compass
• Jennifer Hewett: In a connected age, no rules, no mercy

Ashby v Slipper

• Laura Tingle: Labor’s chance to turn the tables on Libs
• Richard Ackland: Ashby case a shocking spectacle
• Terry Sweetman: Silence of main players in Peter Slipper pursuit deafening
• Bernard Lagan: Judge, there’s a grub in my scoop

Economics

• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Austerity has been tried and found wanting
• Ross Gittins: Life gets tougher, far from the madding crowd
• Laura Tingle: Labor needs some lessons in chutzpah

Senator Assange

• Antony Green: What chance of Julian Assange being elected to the Senate?

The political year that was

• Jonathan Green: The politics of mutually assured destruction
• John Warhurst: All out war – the year that was Australian politics
• Ross Peake: Gender an evolution in Gillard strategy
• Tim Dunlop: The front page of Australian politics
• Polyquant: The high and low points of 2012
• Best political cartoons 2012

Psephology

• Peter Lewis: How the generation gap became a chasm
• Poliquant: Is the Coalition vulnerable to interest rates?

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No Crap App: w/b 29 Oct 2012

Pope, Canberra Times 1 Nov 2012

The week that was…

The week began with three competing political narratives: the revelations in Maxine McKew’s book, the launch of the government’s Asian Century white paper, and the second 50/50 Newspoll within two months.

Unsurprisingly, the press gallery’s attention moved swiftly from McKew to Abbott, particularly once it became clear he would ignore the white paper and press ahead with his “stop the tax, stop the boats” mantra. By week’s end, the gallery was openly wondering whether Abbott would emulate his former boss John Hewson by losing another “unloseable” election.

Meantime, Australia was excised for migration purposes, the US Presidential election loomed, and Mark Colvin gave the Andrew Olle address.

Spotlight on Abbott

• Geoff Kitney [$]: Abbott cold shoulders Asian Century white paper
• Peter van Onselen: Is this the turning point?
• Jennifer Hewett [$]: Abbott’s Hewson legacy
• Simon Benson: Cruel comparison spurs Abbott
• Michelle Grattan: Headaches for Abbott as tactics falter
• Lenore Taylor: Voter enthusiasm now well and truly curbed
• Geoff Kitney [free]: Gillard has good reason to go early

Asian Century white paper and economics

• Jessica Irvine: We must grab hold of Asia or be left behind
• Ross Gittins: Opportunity knocks, but the door has to open both ways
• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Martyrs to austerity – appeasing the credit rating gods
• George Megalogenis: It’s time for a serious debate on tax reform
• Laurie Oakes: Will US lemmings leap off a fiscal cliff

Asylum seekers

• Michael Gordon: Friendship hits a snag in a sea of confusion
• Bernard Keane: The excision that isn’t, and why it’s good policy
• Waleed Aly: Imagine there’s no haven

Brave new digital world

• Jonathan Green: Give us diversity and we’ll choose our own facts
• Mark Colvin: Facts matter as readers select their own truth