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 13 Apr 2015

Budget

• Lenore Taylor: Who will lose most from the 2015 budget (apart from the government)?
• Laura Tingle: Surfing the budget’s ebbs and flows
• Phil Coorey: Some brutal budget honesty might go a long way
• Peter Martin: Why Hockey will have to clean up Costello’s superannuation mess
• Tom Burton: Why Dr Karl did Treasury a big favour

COAG/GST

• Laurie Oakes: Prime Minister Tony Abbott draws no battlelines
• Terry Barnes: COAG: sound and fury, signifying not very much
• Tim Colebatch: The true story of Western Australia and the GST

Anzac

• Jonathan Green: Gallipoli 2015: Lest we forget to turn a buck
• Helen Razer: Woolworths’ Anzac campaign perfectly appropriate to what Gallipoli has become

Other thinkiness

• Mike Steketee: Can the Greens keep the bastards honest?
• Malcolm Farnsworth: Peering through

By request, my posts for the week

• New polls but the same old pain for Abbott
• Politics’ winners and losers

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No Crap App: w/b 16 Mar 2015

Pope, Canberra Times 21 Mar 2015

Abbott/government/leadership

• Troy Bramston: Labor alert on Bishop threat
• Peter Brent: How easily we forget
• Michael Gordon: Tony Abbott’s unique despair
• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott launches ‘operation budget success’, but it’s just lipstick on a pig
• Lenore Taylor: Malcolm Fraser’s steady hand is in stark contrast to Tony Abbott’s chaotic manoeuvres
• Greg Jericho: Bad policy, woeful politics – can we fix it?
• David Crowe: Struggling Coalition may not be up to the task of governing
• Laura Tingle: Being governed by fools is not funny

Double dissolution

• Peter Brent: Would Tony do it?
• Phil Coorey: Desparate Abbott looks at the barnacles in the Senate

Labor

• Troy Bramston: Bill Shorten causes Labor dismay over lack of ideas

Malcolm Fraser

• John Howard: Malcolm Fraser was a true believer in liberalism
• Katharine Murphy: Malcolm Fraser had no Damascene conversion – he always championed human rights
• Laurie Oakes: Malcolm Fraser was a man of contrasts
• Margaret Simons: Malcolm Fraser’s long debate and being true to his ideals
• Paul Kelly: Malcolm Fraser: Achievements were less than his promise
• Cameron Stewart: Fraser: Farewell to a true liberal everyone could admire
• Tony Wright: The day Malcolm Fraser saved my career as a journalist

Other thinkiness

• Piping Shrike: Lifestyle
• Jonathan Green: The next great reform will be of politics itself
• Marija Taflaga: Small targets, small ambitions

By request, my posts for the week

• Turnbull’s new pitch as Mr Right 
• Get over Credlin and get some balls
• The myth of two Malcolm Frasers
• Malcolm Fraser: Australia’s last great ‘moderate’

 

No Crap App: w/b 3 Nov 2014

Knight, 6 Nov 2014

Whitlam

• Wendy Harmer: Gough’s show – five stars
• Dennis Atkins: Whitlam memorial raises questions for all modern politicians
• Mike Steketee: Is there anyone to take up Whitlam’s baton?
• Gideon Haigh: Whitlam’s wild ride in the race for reform

Liberal leadership

• Phil Coorey: The CVs may be written for the Liberal Party’s top job but there is no vacancy

Political spin

• Laurie Oakes: Pollies’ world still in a spin

Other thinkiness

• Jonathan Green: A new reason to remember the fifth of November
• Lenore Taylor: Our salute to Whitlam was excellent, but what about his legacy?
• Greg Jericho: One size doesn’t fit all at G20

By request, my posts for the week

• Polls, damn polls
• Palmer’s Lambie headache just became a migraine

 

No Crap App: w/b 11 Aug 2014

Pope, 14 Aug 2014

Abbott, Hockey and the Government

• Ben Eltham: Abbott’s early on-set of mid-term blues
• Piping Shrike: Chaos
• Phil Coorey: It’s hard to understand voters from the VIP lounge
• Tony Walker: No place for ‘must’ in Prime Minister’s vocabulary
• Laura Tingle: A government that fails to marshal its thoughts
• Greg Jericho: Road to nowhere – the fuel excise ain’t a progressive tax
• Barrie Cassidy: No more Mr Nice Joe
• Paul Bongiorno: Base politics
• Laurie Oakes: Joe Hockey wins the Goose Award
• Lenore Taylor: Joe Hockey may be sorry, but that doesn’t mean he gets it
• Paul Kelly: Tony Abbott: pragmatic but don’t expect to see a U-turn

 Other thinkiness

• Norman Abjorensen: Labor, the Coalition and the problem of political identity
• Tim Dunlop: A plea to the left: push back harder
• Frank Stilwell: Inequality: an old concern given new prominence
• Jonathan Green: Manipulation and the politics of fear
• Katharine Murphy: We must look past shock tactics like a child holding a severed head in Syria

 

And my posts for the week:

• Abbott’s survival relies on knowing when to fold ’em
• Unloved Joe Hockey: poetic justice
• Hockey, Shorten: tongue tied and in trouble