No Crap App: w/b 1 Sep 2014

Pope, 3 Sep 2014

 

First year of Abbott Government

• Michael Gordon: Happy birthday, Prime Minister?
• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott one year on: how the trust was won and lost
• Laura Tingle: Tony Abbott: the first year
• Tony Walker: Abbott must beware of overreach
• Phil Coorey: From a low-key pragmatist to a global activist
• Michelle Grattan: Tony Abbott’s year of living ideologically
• Peter Hartcher: Abbott unmasked: ideological warrior marches to the right
• Peter Brent: Why the first-year flatline?
• Nick Feik: The year of ruling dangerously
• Peter Martin: Hockey has the right instincts, but a long way to go

Mining tax repeal

• Ben Eltham: The mining tax abolition is a great victory for foreign wealth over common cents
• Laura Tingle: Both sides dig in for a war of policy attrition
• Peter Martin: Not so super: Labor’s dumb idea

Shorten and Labor

• Katharine Murphy: Labor’s first year in the wilderness
• Jacqueline Maley: Bill Shorten plays Labor’s Mr Right Now well enough
• Michael Gawenda: Can Shorten do the hard yards to bring Labor back?

Political profiles

• Fleur Anderson: The very different politician – Andrew Leigh
• David Marr: Freedom Abbott

Other thinkiness

• Sally Young: Freud would have a field day with our politicians
• Kellie Riordan: Does journalism still require impartiality?

My columns and posts for the week:

• It’s anything but ‘situation normal’ for the Government
• Socks, jocks and Tony Abbott
• Jacqui Lambie: the PUP is outgrowing the kennel
• All about Jacqui (best read using a tablet)

 

No Crap App: w/b 28 Jan 2013

Press club addresses and election announcement

• Antony Green: Federal election date announced
• Geoff Kitney [$]: PM is now hostage to fortune
• Laura Tingle [$]: Control the key to PM decision
• Jack Waterford: It’s the character that counts
• Mike Seccombe: If they’ve said he’s negative once, they’ve said it 433 times
• Graham Richardson: Gillard heads into dangerous waters
• Ben Eltham: Forget policy, we’re having an election
• Barrie Cassidy: Certainty makes a rare and fleeting appearance
• Laura Tingle [$]: Like Lincoln, Gillard grabs the nettle
• Michelle Grattan: Thomson charged, but Abbott less than arresting
• John Wanna: Gillard showing appetite for a long, slow roast
• Norman Abjorensen: The electoral calculus of campaign oxygen
• Peter Brent: Now it’s the Libs’ turn
• Ross Gittins: Economy not likely to drag in the voters
• Lenore Taylor: More to budgets than DNA
• Michael Gordon: The remaking of Tony Abbott – a seven month Liberal project
• Andrew West: Values campaign would elevate the debate

The media

• Jonathan Green: Why wait for mainstream media to catch up?
• Tim Dunlop: Real media revolution gives the people the power

No Crap App: w/b 17 Dec 2012

Shakespeare, SMH 18 Dec 2012

Polls, popularity and the 2013 federal election

• Laura Tingle: Election may hinge on Abbott’s appeal
• Peter Brent: Beware high personal ratings
• Malcolm Farr: Election 2013 – a contest of firmly held convictions
• Lenore Taylor: Political death roll promises all bets off for major parties
• Paul Kelly: Abbott leads with his chin on values
• Michelle Grattan: Election game plan 101 – how to be a hit with the opposite sex

Surplus or lack thereof

• Ross Gittins: It’s the weak recovery that worries, not surplus
• Michelle Grattan: Surplus swansong leaves Labor in stormy waters

Other good reads

• Katharine Murphy: The Librarian’s strategy
• Paul Kelly: Political messiah to martyr, a modern morality tale
• Tad Tietze: 2012 – the year that politics disoriented the Left
• Tim Dunlop: 2012 in review – public life
• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Prizes for politics – the best of 2012
• Ian McAuley: A plea for smarter debate in 2013

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No Crap App: w/b 3 Dec 2012

Illustration: Ward O’Neill, AFR 8 Dec 2012

Policy conundrums

• Eleanor Gibbs: Can Gillard get the NDIS details right?
• Bernard Keane: Left disconnected from reality on asylum seekers
• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: A million new jobs ain’t what it used to be
• Ben Eltham: Who’s afraid of interest rate cuts?
• Elizabeth Humphrys: Children, women, men – the ALP’s conscious cruelty
• Philip Lowe: What is normal?

Reform of the Labor Party

• John Faulkner’s speech on Labor Party reform
• Laura Tingle: Labor has room to move before poll
• Michelle Grattan: Labor’s long and winding road to reform
• Barrie Cassidy: In defence of deficits and factions
• Peter van Onselen: It’s not factions or unions but flawed individuals

Politics

• Tim Soutphommasane: Our brutally ugly politics imperils the ideal of public service
• Nick Dyrenfurth: Political sleaze and hatred – it was ever thus
• Zoe Krupka: Do we want drama or decorum?
• Lenore Taylor: It’s all well to boast but tall stories don’t fit hard facts
• Peter Hartcher: Abbott’s white-line fever
• Geoff Kitney [free]: Gillard’s voice gets a hearing

Media

• Jonathan Green: How can anything rival the threat of climate change?
• David Penberthy: The party at the end of journalism
• Geoffrey Blainey: Media, no matter the century, always have a leading role

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No Crap App: w/b 12 Nov 2012

The week that was…

The Royal Commission was big news this week, with some suggesting the debate over the confessional was an unnecessary distraction. The Australian’s Paul Kelly criticised it for focussing only on institutionalised child abuse, when so much of it occurs within the home. Elsewhere, Irvine and Jericho did their best to improve our economic literacy, Dunlop and Green continued their dissection of the media, and some writers lifted their eyes past Christmas to the 2013 federal election. Also included is a longer read from Linda Jaivin on writing.

The economy

• Jessica Irvine: We’re afflicted with the same fiscal flab most governments struggle with
• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: US fiscal brinksmanship and its threat to Australia

The Royal Commission

• Michelle Grattan: Thinking outside the box – apply the same rules to all
• Waleed Aly: Choir of dissent off-key on the sanctity of confession
• Annabel Crabb: Stopping abuse goes way beyond the confessional
• Andrew Clark [$]: Catholics and bitter politics
• Paul Kelly: Commission on child sex abuse a depressing example of populist politics

The 2013 election

• Peter Lewis: Inevitable defeat for the ALP no longer so inevitable
• Pollytics: Trends, the horserace and random numbers
• Poliquant: The next Senate on current polls
• Barrie Cassidy: Any result is possible with leaders this unpopular
• Laurie Oakes: More to rebranding than softer edges
• Peter van Onselen: Tony Abbott needs new direction to get his mission home
• Geoff Kitney: Parties primed for 2013 poll dance
• Peter Brent: Proportion of unenrolled young people

The media

• Tim Dunlop: The big media complex is open for business
• Jonathan Green: Partisan hyperbole – mistaking a claque for a clap

On writing

• Linda Jaivin: Confessions of a graphomaniac

Sunday addition

• Kevin Bonham: As Gillard recovered, so can Abbott