No Crap App: w/b 1 July 2013

Lobbecke, Aust 4 Jul 2013

Rudd 2.0

• Piping Shrike: The Rudd effect
• Simon Jackman: Will the love for Kevin Rudd last beyond the honeymoon?
• Katharine Murphy: Kevin Rudd takes on the case of the missing prime minister
• Mark Latham: Rudd’s redux raised on ruins
• Jonathan Green: A strange sense of normalcy returns to politics
• Laura Tingle: Chris Bowen must make his mark
• Malcolm Farr: We’re at risk of a debate that’s Kevin v Kevin
• Laurie Oakes: Finally we have a contest
• Paul Kelly: Swan’s budget leaves Rudd little room to move

Reform of NSW Labor

• Laura Tingle & Gemma Daley: Rudd intervenes in NSW Labor
• Peter Hartcher: Kevin Rudd has more to do on Labor Party reform
• Peter van Onselen: Reforming Labor a clever move though resistance inevitable
• Simon Benson: Rudd’s revenge on NSW Right
• Kate McClymont: Dirty deals done dirt cheap

Legacies

• Greg Jericho: Swan’s good economics blurred by bad politics
• Ben Eltham: Gillard’s place in the Labor pantheon

Abbott

• Geoff Kitney: Abbott needs to regroup in the wake of the ‘Rudd Effect’

No Crap App: w/b 4 Mar 2013

Rowe, AFR 6 March 2013

The politics of employment

• Malcolm Farr: Why cutting wages is a fool’s way to boost the economy
• Katharine Murphy: Free for all on foreigners as leaders chase votes
• Laura Tingle [$]: Dodgy policy does job for desperate PM
• Peter Hartcher: The ‘first rule’ that eludes leaders
• Laurie Oakes: Abbott joking, but there’s a punchline
• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Fairness goes beyond economic equality

What Labor stands for

• Peter Brent: The Howard hangover
• Mark Latham: Labor gets left on the outer
• Tim Watts: Labor’s future lies in progressive leadership, not progressive liberalism
• Jeff Sparrow: Thoughts on the Gillard-Abbott election
• Tony Walker [$]: Labor needs to look outward, not inward

Festival of western Sydney

• Jacqueline Maley: Can the west be won?
• Jonathan Green: The political machine’s fleeting visit with reality
• Ben Eltham: There’s something about western Sydney
• Ben Eltham: A will but no way – how fear of debt jams transport policy
• In a blatant act of cross-promotion, I also draw your attention to the excellent series on Western Sydney plus many other quality posts over at the federal election group blog AusVotes 2013.

Other good pieces

• Ross Gittins: Lies, damned lies and Labor claims
• Michael Gordon: Worlds apart, but the pain’s the same when the axe falls
• Peter Lewis: The game’s not up – could voters have a change of heart?
• Andrew Elder: Australia’s political parties in the Asian Century

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No Crap App: w/b 24 Sep 2012

Rowe, AFR 26 Sept 2012

The week that was…

Normally I wouldn’t give much exposure to the latest leadership speculation stories, arising as they seem to do regularly in the days leading up to the latest Newspoll. But Tanner’s intervention this week was notable not only for its timing but also for the issues that he raises. Not that he proffered any solutions.

I’ve also included some good analysis pieces following the past parliamentary fortnight, and pieces by Tingle and Jericho to remind us about the importance of the economy in all things political. There’s also a link to the AFR Magazine’s annual Power List (which as far as I can tell is outside the paywall.

Abbott

• Katharine Murphy: Handbags at 10 paces
• Mark Latham: Abbott an easy target
• George Megalogenis: Abbott doesn’t want to look at the bigger picture

Gillard,Tanner and Rudd

• Jonathan Green: Do we really need to talk about Kevin?
• Michael Gordon: Tanner orchestrates his own Labor sideshow
• Paul Kelly: Tanner shines a light on party’s hollow core
• Geoff Kitney [free]: Tanner’s book exposes depth of discontent
• Barrie Cassidy: Prime Ministerial trivia- sorting fact from fiction
• Tom Dusevic: Gillard’s 12-step recovery program

Milne’s address to the NPC

• Adam Brereton: An economy that serves the people

The economy

• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Why the GST may not be good for us
• Laura Tingle [free]: Black holes are not just ALP’s worry

Food for thought

• Peter Lewis: Would they lie to you? Yes, we want them to
• Zoe Krupka: Jump on the condemnation bandwagon

AFR Magazine Power Issue [free]

No Crap App: w/b 20 Aug 2012

Lobbecke, Aust 25 Aug 2012

The week that was…

In a scene reminiscent of a scifi movie, the entire Canberra Press Gallery shook themselves awake this week and “realised” that Tony Abbott has been playing fast and loose with the facts.Today’s papers are full of it (and yes, there have been exceptions). Meanwhile the Rudd camp continued its campaign using compliant journalists to blow on the embers of the 17 year-old Slatergate story.

Matters of import were also considered. Ben Eltham pondered the nexus between what the electorate wants and what it’s willing to pay for; Tiffin and Gittens previewed their book on PM Howard’s economic record, and Grog also pondered the the Howard “Golden Years”. Yet again, Jonathan Green made us think about the media that we consume daily. Lastly, I’ve included a link to an excerpt from Greg Jericho’s excellent Rise of the Fifth Estate.

Abbott lies and the campaign against Gillard

• Mark Latham: Lunar right crusades against Gillard
• Barrie Cassidy: Mistakes and missteps in 18 hours of madness
• Jenna Price: Misogynists and nut jobs – Gillard stares down blogosphere
• David Penberthy: Abbott mines a rich vein of rank opportunism
• Laura Tingle: Move forward – there’s no going back
• Michelle Grattan: Is Abbott on thin ice? Absolutely
• Dennis Atkins: Rhetoric rides unbridled as Tony Abbott is obsessed with polls
• Lenore Taylor: Lack of carnage Abbott’s inconvenient fiscal truth
• Geoff Kitney: Gillard must impose her own agenda
• Laurie Oakes: Have you heard the one about the politician who lies?

Economic issues

• Ben Eltham: How will we pay for it all?
• Rodney Tiffen and Ross Gittins: The Howard impact
• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Who can claim the economic gold medal?

Thinky pieces

• Jonathan Green: An allegory of journalistic decline
• Misha Schubert: Politicians are people too
• An excerpt of Greg Jericho’s new book, Rise of the Fifth Estate, and my review

No Crap App: w/b 30 Jul 2012

Pat Campbell, Canberra Times, 1 Aug 2012

The week that was…

On the face of it, this last week before the recommencement of federal parliament was bereft of solid news and analysis, replaced instead by wall-to-wall coverage of the Olympics.

But a closer inspection uncovered a swath of interesting pieces. The best of the obligatory analyses of Swan’s speech are provided here, along with predictions of next steps by the major political players. Tad Tietze’s latest on the Greens is also featured.

There are links here too that will take you to considerd thought pieces on the media, including long reads from MP Andrew Leigh and the report “Journalism at the speed of light.” Also included are the only two stories on the Olympics that I read this week 🙂

Bruce, Wayne and the economy

• Laurie Oakes: An unusual team, but Swan, Springsteen win gold
• Bernard Keane: Wayne Swansteen – is the Treasurer or Labor dancing in the dark?
• George Megalogenis: Inequality has grown on working-class warrior Wayne Swan’s watch
• Jessica Irvine: Daddy’s not so cool, but numbers sound great
• Shaun Carney: Swan rocks on, but it’s a case of too little too late
• Ross Gittins: It’s great to have a conscience, now tell us how we’ll pay for it
• Jessica Irvine: A noble pursuit by any measure

Labor

• Jack Waterford: Boobytrapping the Lodge
• Mark Latham: Revenge is killing Labor
• Paul Kelly: Labor shifts to disability, education

Liberals

• Laura Tingle: Change the subject but not the tune
• Peter van Onselen: A case of one bad government replacing another

Greens

• Tad Tietze: Far from ‘extreme’: The Greens’ worrying technocratic turn

Media

• Katharine Murphy: Rip off those headphones and let the pollies hear some truths
• John Mehlman: Newspaper editors ‘concerned about quality’ but not about hiring journalists who can write good
• Chris Berg: Media diversity fears are absurd and obsolete
• Andrew Leigh: The naked truth? Media and politics in the digital age
• Penny O’Donnell, David McKnight, Jonathan Este: Journalism at the speed of bites

Olympics

• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Free to air just can’t compete at the Olympics
• Jenna Price: Olympians have a job to do and must perform

Damn, how can I get past the paywall?