No Crap App: w/b 25 May 2015

Pope, Canb Times 26 May 2015

Government

• Phil Coorey: Dumb policy keeps Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey in polling peril
• Greg Jericho: Driven to distraction
• Lenore Taylor: Debacle over terrorism and citizenship is leak-based policy in its purest form
• Laura Tingle: The Abbott government’s terrorism Bingo! Playing chicken on national security
• Michael Gordon: Citizenship: it’s Abbott facing exile
• Andrew Probyn: Next federal election shaping up to be best of worst

Labor

• Paul Rodan: Is this the only leader less likely than Tony Abbott to win the next election?
• David Crowe: Bill Shorten’s same-sex initiative baffles like-minded Libs
• Jonathan Green: Same-sex marriage is an easy vote for MPs unwilling to tackle broader social issues
• Niki Savva: Conroy and Wong lead the charge as Labor goes to war with itself

Greens

• Sophie Morris: Richard Di Natale’s plans to reboot the Australian Greens

Other thinkiness

• Malcolm Farnsworth: An early election?

By request, my posts for the week

•  Shorten needs to refine his brand of attack
• Sloppy Joe’s loose lips land the PM in hot water

No Crap App: w/b 4 May 2015

Knight, Herald Sun

Budget

• Andrew Probyn: Treasurer Joe Hockey facing his crunch time
• Dennis Atkins: Abbott Government’s future rests on its crucial second Budget
• Michael Gordon: Tony Abbott gambles on the fairness factor
• David Crowe: Politics of distortion is a poor match for fair-minded debate
• Lenore Taylor: Coalition’s unwillingness to tax means commitment to fairness won’t last
• Ross Gittins: The budget circus isn’t the whole show
• Peter Martin: Expect a do-nothing budget that will cost us time
• Jonathan Green: Budget will be a true test of authenticity

Labor

• Troy Bramston: ‘Consultation draft’ platform shows Labor is anchored in the past

Greens

• Sophie Morris: Milne, Di Natale and Greens’ deliberate leadership coup
• Greg Jericho: How Di Natale hopes to grow the Greens vote
• Tad Tietze: The Greens after Milne: Running out of options?

Other thinkiness

• Malcolm Farnsworth: History doesn’t repeat

By request, my articles for the week

• Political leaks leave voters in the dark
• Egalitarianism is under threat?
• Was Christine Milne pushed or did she jump?
• Scott Morrison steals the show

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 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: 2 Feb 2015

This week’s No Crap App is incomplete due to the sheer volume of pieces appearing on the battle for the Liberal leadership. Please keep checking in for updates.

Liberal leadership (Sunday additions)

• Laura Tingle: Tony Abbott spins out of control
• Katharine Murphy: How the Liberal Party machine swallowed the real Tony Abbott alive
• Lenore Taylor: Whether he survives the leadership spill or not, Tony Abbott’s time is up

Liberal leadership

• David Crowe: Even without candidates, Coalition spill coming
• Barrie Cassidy: The public still wants an end to the chaos
• Malcolm Farnsworth: Motion to spill: it’s survival time for Tony Abbott
• Niki Savva: Time running out for damaged PM
• Michael Gordon: Waiting for Malcolm
• Sophie Morris: Malcolm Turnbull awaits the leadership
• Paul Kelly: A double upheaval in a blow to the body politic
• Laura Tingle: Spill caused by division between party room and electorate
• Jonathan Green: Could a spill reset out fractured political cycle?

Labor

• Troy Bramston: Useful lesson for Labor in conservative critiques of the Coalition

Other thinkiness

• Richard Mulgan: Martin Parkinson’s fall is a lesson for departmental secretaries

By request, my posts for the week

• Without change, Abbott’s a dead man walking
• Abbott: Strong or just plain stubborn?
• Trigger happy chatter does not make a spill