No Crap App: w/b 12 Jan 2015

Pat Campbell, Canb Times, 13 Jan 2015

Queensland election

• Mark Bahnisch: Shadowboxing

Free speech

• Jonathan Holmes: We’re all supporters of free speech … when it suits us
• Leo D’Angelo Fisher: From the chants of the #JeSuisCharlie marchers to the cant of Abbott’s charlies the word is “freedom”
• Michael Gordon: Charlie Hebdo: Let’s have free speech, but keep safety valves 

Medicare

• Lenore Taylor: As Sussan Ley tries to patch the cuts to Medicare, the question is: why?
• David Crowe: Abbott’s Medicare rebate backflip signals a new government approach

Economic reform

• Greg Jericho: The government has staked the key economic battlegrounds for 2015. And they seem to take aim at the poorest

By request, my posts for the week

• Abbott follows Howard blueprint on GST
• Pollies feeling the heat in Queensland
• A three-point plan to get Abbott back on track

No Crap App: w/b 28 Jul 2014

Cathy Wilcox, 28 Jul 2014

MH17

• Ben Eltham: All Australian eyes on Ukraine, but what’s our goal again?
• Jim Middleton: Military victory trumps MH17 investigation for Kiev
• Piping Shrike: Disaster politics
• Martin McKenzie-Murray: Relations in the firing line in wake of MH17

Budget

• Phil Coorey: Joe Hockey on a mission to sell budget to MPs 
• Peter Hartcher: Tony Abbott’s Coalition making the same mistakes as Labor
• Cade Lucas: Abbott, Abetz, Tasmania and the logic that wasn’t
• Greg Jericho: Sorting fact from fiction in dole policy
• Michael Cooney: Don’t be distracted: it’s all about the budget
• Troy Henderson: Trust me (I hate you)

ALP

• Laura Tingle: Shorten coy on party reform
• Brett Evans: The winter of Senator Faulkner’s discontent

Gaza

• Tony Walker: Israel’s inconvenient truth – Hamas must be dealt with
• Tim Robertson: Palestine and the Saturday paper
• Aicha Marhfour: Hashtags won’t save Palestine in war of words and clicks
• Waleed Aly: MH17, Gaza and the value of human life
• Lin Taylor: Compassion fatigue: how much is too much bad news

Palmer

• Laurie Oakes: Clive Palmer’s not big on comity as his latest push for an inquiry shows
• Sophie Morris: Nationals urge tougher tactics as Clive Palmer plays the centre

Media

• Jonathan Holes: Press Council’s new rules makes writers face facts

Other thinkiness

• Tim Dunlop: Feeding our egalitarian nation to the sharks
• Jonathan Green: The slick, glib world of tabloid politics

And my posts for the week

• The vexed issue called ‘leadership’
• Unions – 1, Shorten – 0
• In praise of public art
• Is Julie Bishop Australia’s most underrated politician?

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

 

No Crap App: w/b 19 May 2014

Moir, SMH 23 May 2014

Budget

• Katharine Murphy: Budget gets no brownie points for bravery from voters taken for mugs
• Jonathan Gree: Real politics snuffed in the wink of an eye
• Michael Gordon: Has the budget fatally wounded two Liberal leaders?
• Steven Scott: Government’s pain over blunders selling budget won’t be gone in a wink
• Lenore Taylor: The verdict is unequivocal: the budget is inequitable
• Peter Brent: Worse than Wayne’s 
• Peter van Onselen: An on-the-nose Coalition is a free kick for Shorten
• Troy Bramston: Lasting reform doomed by fault lines
• Waleed Aly: No way Tony Abbott can now budget for a second term
• Ross Gittins: What’s inside Joe Hockey’s head?
• Jonathan Holmes: Hard truths falling on electorate’s deaf ears
• Piping Shrike: Budget panto goes wrong
• Laura Tingle: Coalition gets a brutal lesson in policy on the run
• David Marr: The budget of a hidden man

 Liberal leadership

• Peter Brent: Is Tony Disposable?

 Palmer

• Jane Gilmore: Clive Palmer is the Loki of Australian politics
• Tad Tietze: Dazed & confused: The Left, Palmer and Budget 2014

 Double dissolution

• Antony Green: Double dissolution speculation misguided

Protests

• Amy Gray: Why I take my child to protests

Political profiles

• Deborah Snow and Anne Davies: Meet the real Joe Hockey
• Sophie Morris: The family guy

My posts for this week

• Labor’s choice: Chaos or kudos
• One punch is okay? Unforgivable, PM
• Palmer: Not what you were expecting

 

 

No Crap App: w/b 5 May 2014

Pope, Canberra Times, 9 May 2014

Budget

• Peter Brent: A bubble apart
• Katharine Murphy: Tony Abbott’s chance to show the courage of his convictions
• Paul Kelly: Wake-up call after long night of phoney dreams
• Michael Gordon: Tuesday’s federal budget is Abbott’s biggest gamble
• Greg Jericho: Family tax benefit cuts will hurt the average family more than a levy
• Ross Gittins: Let’s have a levy on self-interest to fix the deficit

Lobbying and political fundraising

• Tony Walker: Death to lobbying and schmoozing

Policies

• Adam Creighton: Retirement riches can’t go on like this
• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott’s grand infrastructure plan may be an expensive road to nowhere
• Gabrielle Chan: Coalition has budget blind spot when it comes to the rural poor

Trust

• Gay Alcorn: The political powers that be have lost our trust
• Phil Coorey: PM’s broken promises will now haunt his tenure

Political profile

• Michael McGuire: Jamie Briggs, rising star and game changer

Other thinkiness

• Jonathan Holmes: Investigative journalism: why we need it more than ever
• Jonathan Green: News photography lost in a digital sea of words

And my posts for the week:

• Lock up the war chest for fairer elections
• Political access for sale
• Tony’s ‘gone negative’, so who’s next?