No Crap App: w/b 18 May 2015

Rowe, AFR 23 May 2015

Budget

• Alan Kohler: Modern budgets are exercises in spin – and this year was no exception
• Greg Jericho: If you’re going to compare levels of income and welfare, do it fairly
• Phil Coorey: Consistency, not whiplash, is key to political success
• Ross Gittins: Dishonest to resist curbs on spending and oppose higher taxes
• Lenore Taylor: Belt up, fellow Australians: we’re in for another Big Stupid tax debate

Asylum seekers

• Daniel Flitton: Foreign policy compromised by asylum seeker solution

Abbott

• Mark Kenny: Abbott’s policy flip-flopping is a bit of a worry

Labor

• David Crowe: Bill Shorten’s weapons losing firepower

Political profiles

• Cameron Atfield: New Senator Joanna Lindgren ‘no’ on same-sex marriage

Other

• Alan Ramsey: The Faulkner papers a rich treasure trove for the National Archives
• Tim Dunlop: Is democracy rapidly making way for oligarchy?

By request, my posts for the week

• An equity war could stifle the post-budget glow
• Throw-away lines that backfired

No Crap App: w/b 20 Apr 2015

Letch, SMH 24 Apr 2015

Budget

• David Crowe: Budget a problem that no-one wants to fix
• Mark Kenny: Hockey and Abbott pay the iron price as Labor circles
• Mike Steketee: From welfare to unfair: who budget savings rate
• Lenore Taylor: Abbott government endures four stages of budget grief, but ‘reform’ eludes it

Labor

• Greg Jericho: When “fairness” doesn’t cut it, ALP surprises with policy

Other thinkiness

• Bernard Keane: Senate reform and the outsourcing of democracy
• Sarah Malik: Stop the dog whistling on radicalisation, Minister
• Dennis Atkins: Our stop-the-boats stance will not work in Europe’s migration crisis
• Tim Dunlop: Tony Abbott and the normalisation of bad politics

By request, my posts for the week

• Business lobby is full of false bravado
• Put a leash on dog-whistling Tony Abbott
• The best and the worst – this week in politics

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No Crap App: w/b 26 Jan 2015

Letch, SMH 30 Jan 2015

Abbott

• Gabrielle Chan: Dangerous days for Tony Abbott as ‘very, very, very stupid’ decision riles backers
• Niki Savva: Government still in the wilderness
• Mark Kenny: Abbott’s choice: change or face the axe
• Laura Tingle: Tony Abbott’s sick sounding rhetoric
• Jonathan Green: We’ve allowed the ‘ridicule’ rot to set in
• Greg Jericho: No, Peta Credlin isn’t to blame for this mess
• Tony Walker: Vision absent in Abbott’s folie de grandeur
• Scott Bowman: We must overcome out leadership change addiction

Queensland election

• Greg Jericho: Queensland election a fascinating study in cost of austerity politics
• Todd Winther: 10 things to watch on and after election night in Queensland
• William Bowe What happened
• Michael Gordon: Tony Abbott becoming Liberal wrecking ball
• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott is making exactly the same mistakes Campbell Newman did
• Tad Tietze: Zombie social democracy in shock landslide win

Other thinkiness

• Monica Attard: Islamic State. Is weeping all we can do?
• Mark Skulley: Protecting workers relies on sorting IR fact from fiction
• Ross Gittins: Little action on social issues sell us all short
• Wendy Harmer: Who votes what in the land of OZ?
• Peter Brent: Let’s talk about the opposition
• Collette Snoden: No, Tony Abbott, you can’t dismiss social media as ‘electronic graffiti’

By request, my posts for the week

• Abbott navigates his crucial ‘year of reform’
• Abbott: bad as Gillard, mad as Rudd?
• Forces massing against Abbott and his minder

No Crap App: f/b 8 Sep 2014

Moir, SMH 20 Sep 2014

War on terror redux

• Peter Brent: War games
• Katharine Murphy: Politicians observe our fears and concerns and project them back at us
• Tony Walker: Iraq mission raises questions for PM
• Ben Eltham: Nothing like talk of a war to silence a small target opposition leader
• Tony Walker: How Labor found the right note on Iraq
• Monica Attard: In Washington’s back pocket
• Mark Kenny: Get ready to be mugged by complexity and Does war mean we’re set for a khaki election?
• Greg Jericho: Operation Mission Creep
• Jack Waterford: Can Abbott defeat IS in a war of character?
• Peter Hartcher: Terror raids: Perspective is always the hardest thing to find

Visit to Arnhem Land

• Katharine Murphy: Indigenous recognition: five things standing in the way
• Michael Gordon: Tony Abbott’s ears and eyes opened to indigenous priorities
• Gabrielle Chan: Tony Abbott’s visit to Indigenous NT communities follows a basic rule
• Myles Morgan: Is Tony Abbott becoming the Prime Minister for Indigenous Australians?

Budget

• Peter Martin: Hockey has the right instincts, but has a long way to go to fix the economy

Political profile

• Sophie Morris: David Johnson’s making as a defence minister 

Jacqui Lambie

• Kevin Bonham: Jacqui Lambie and the British Thug Far Right

Other

• Peter Hartcher: A glaring omission at the heart of our political life
• Phil Coorey: Both parties find clear air to think about policy
• Laura Tingle: Iraq partnership caps a shift to calmer politics
• Tad Tietze: A federal ICAC? ‘Accountability” & the decay of politics
• Lenore Taylor: ICAC is revealing the murky depths of NSW but what about the entire swamp?

And my posts for the fortnight

• ‘Attack by inquiry’ the latest political whip
• Pollies, lies and ‘versions of the truth’
• Friendship and war: Abbott should tread carefully
• Is Tony Abbott the real deal on indigenous issues?

 

No Crap App: w/b 14 Jul 2014

Fazzari, SMH, 19 Jul 2014

Carbon price repeal

• Sara Phillips: The carbon price monster the village grew to fear
• Jack Waterford: Labor leader Bill Shorten raises climate temperature
• Greg Jericho: Why an actual climate ‘reform’ is being axed
• Fergus Green: Australia’s carbon price repeal: The global context
• Simon Copland: Coalition losing its grip on carbon tax mandate
• Laura Tingle: Labor, Coalition already eying next election
• Peter Hartcher: How parlour politics trumped problem-solving and doomed the carbon tax

Clive Palmer

• Anne Twomey: Leashing the PUPs in the Senate
• Ben Eltham: Clive Palmer votes to reduce tax on own companies
• Lenore Taylor: Populist Palmer out-manoeuvres the Coalition
• Piping Shrike: The confusions of anti-politics

Asylum seekers

• Tad Tietze: Why we shouldn’t blame voters for our appalling asylum policies
• Sean Kelly: Scott Morrison, the minister of truth
• Andrew Street: Scott Morrison and the Conveniently Comforting Doctrine of Predestination

Budget

• Dennis Atkins: Putting the shine back on Joe Hockey’s tarnished Budget
• Mark Kenny: Joe Hockey needs to change tack in budget offensive

 Labor

• Sophie Morris: Faulkner expects state conference defeat on party reform

Other thinkiness

• Peter Burdon: After the carbon tax: crisis mongering does not help
• Tim Dunlop: The myth of the ‘sensible middle’ in politics

And my posts for the week:

• Palmer gives Shorten a free ride
• Tax repeal: will Clive pull another swifty?
• Palmer United against the nation – Redux
• RIP carbon tax: what next?