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 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 17 Nov 2014

Knight, Herald Sun 17 Nov 2014

Apologies for the lack of No Crap App last week.

PUP, FOFA, Lambie etc

• David Crowe: FOFA folly was easily avoidable
• Lenore Taylor: Jacqui Lambie’s Fofa stand: a bunch of fives for Clive, a bunch of six for Tony
• Sophie Morris: Labor rallies crossbench senators over FOFA reforms
• Simon Copland: Will Lambie be the new Palmer?
• John Warhurst: Small parties prone to split, but some elected members prosper as independents

China FTA/G20

• Mike Steketee: Free trade Agreement no guarantee of success
• Greg Jericho: Why isn’t the government being held to account on the China free trade deal?
• Monica Attard: How much have they over-promised?
• Greg Jericho: Tony Abbott’s climate change struggle
• Tom Switzer: Abbott will soon look like a genius for refusing to drag Australia to yet another climate fiasco

Labor

• Troy Bramston: Comrades look to Tanya Plibersek

Political profiles

• Madonna King: Less of a Bishop, more of a Pope

Other thinkiness

• Katharine Murphy: ABC, climate change: the Coalition is drowning us in nonsense
• Peter Brent: What the Senate is telling us about big-party politics
• Tad Tietze: Reply to Callinicos on anti-politics & social struggle
• Norman Abjorensen: Tiger by the tail
• Preston Towers: Applying the whip – The Oz giving tips to their horse
• Jonathan Green: When broken promises become tests of character
• Jane Gimore: Greens should take their sex work principles seriously
• Amy Gray: Mark Latham read my mind. Of course I hate my daughter- I’m a feminist

My posts, by request:

• Abbott’s tough talking comes undone at the G20
• Lambie doesn’t want to stay, doesn’t want to quit
• Stop ‘left-plaining’ feminism to Bishop
• Shorten – do we want another Abbott?
• China FTA – What do we get?

 

 

 

 

 

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: f/b 29 Sep 2014

Pope, Canberra Times, 10 Oct 2014

Federal Budget

• Laura Tingle: Coalition budget battle plan falls apart

War on terror

• Phil Coorey: ‘Burqa’ ban and backflip have cost Abbott goodwill
• Tad Tietze: Who let all these Aussie-born Jihadists into the country?
• Greg Jericho: On Hush Puppies and dogs of war

Asylum seekers

• Mike Steketee: Refugee bill trashes our ‘good global citizen’ title

Senate inquiry into Campbell Newman

• Ben Eltham: The Coalition has itself to blame for Clive’s Queensland inquiry
• Anne Twomey: Can one Parliament investigate another?
• Jack Waterford: Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Clive Palmer play politics by different rules

Shorten

• Michael Gawenda: Hapless Shorten is trapped in a Rudd-Gillard timewarp
• Jonathan Green: The ‘Opposition’ is not living up to its name
• Barrie Cassidy: This is a watershed for Labor and the unions

Political profile

• Joanna Heath: Jacqui Lambie’s long climb to Parliament

Other thinkiness

• Paul Ransom: Dont blame me, I voted for …
• Tony Wright: Tony Abbott isn’t the first PM to be booed at the footy, and he won’t be the last
• Matthew Knott: The black dog roaming parliament
• Jonathan Green: Our reckless media fans the flames of disquiet
• Myles McGuire: Why I’m not a journalist
• Katharine Murphy: Faulkner’s call for trust drowned out by all the stunts
• Simon Copland: Against experts