No Crap App: w/b 2 Mar 2015

Abbott

• Geoff Kitney: Leadership threat continues to hang over Abbott
• Niki Savva: Bill Shorten’s lesson in leadership
• Jonathan Green: A chance to refocus politics went begging

Intergenerational report and the Budget

• Laura Tingle: Report is not so scary after all
• Peter Martin: Intergenerational Report: How Labor was framed
• Ross Gittins: Joe Hockey turns intergenerational report into a propaganda weapon
• Phil Coorey: Not retreating, just advancing in a different direction
• Lenore Taylor: Joe Hockey wants to talk, but real budget gain might mean swallowing a bitter pill
• Annabel Crabb: Budget ‘inoffensive’ hits Medicare co-payment

Iraq

• Tony Walker: Walking a slippery slope in Iraq

Political profile

• Fleur Anderson: Kelly O’Dwyer’s own looming intergenerational struggle

Other thinkiness

• Monica Attard: Has the hope of a ‘best possible Indonesia’ been killed?
• Greg Jericho: Bipartisanship and its limits

By request, my posts for the week

• Liberals should fear disunity, not Labor
• The reinvention of Scott Morrison

 

 

 

 

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: w/b 5 Jan 2015

Pope, Canb Times, 5 Jan 2015

Je suis Charlie

• Monica Attard: Charlie Hebdo drew critics, fans as European immigration held up to scrutiny
• Sarah joseph: Charlie Hebdo: the pen must defy the sword, Islamic or not
• Helen Razer: Je ne suis pas Charlie

Qld Votes

• Lenore Taylor: Campbell Newman’s election pitch is a test run for Tony Abbott
• Michael Gordon: Even in absentia, Tony Abbott a factor in Queensland poll
• Norman Abjorensen: State elections fought on issues, not Abbott

Abbott’s woes

• Marius Benson: Can Abbott go from ‘ragged’ to riches in 2015?
• Jack Waterford: Prime Minister Tony Abbott needs an issue, or an idea

GST

• David Crowe: States must face facts about GST

Other thinkiness

• Kath Kenny: Gen X in power. Spot the difference.
• Waleed Aly: Plane crashes, terrorism, random violence – new realities amid our relative security

By request, my posts for the week (or so)

• Will 2015 see the rise or fall of the crossbenchers?
• Abbott has six months to get it right
• Iraq: troops stay, media kept out
• Why the PM’s mission was a PR failure

No Crap App: w/b 15 Dec 2014

Pope, Canb Times, 20 Dec 2014

Sydney siege

• Monica Attard: Was this our greatest fear?
• Paul Kelly: Probe into possible role of policy failures in the Martin Place tragedy
• Jacqueline Maley: Let there be no doubt: Monis was a terrorist
• Tony Walker: Lone wolves with Facebook friends
• James Brown: Fighting a siege mentality

Budget

• Greg Jericho: Coalition’s previous budget rhetoric has come back to haunt them
• Lenore Taylor: Australia, we have a budget problem, and the ‘solutions’ are underwhelming
• Paul Kelly: Update reveals daunting challenge for a debased political culture
• Michael Gordon: Julie Bishop and the empathy deficit
• David Crowe: Political class stumbles on how to fix our broken budget
• Ross Gittins: Has the Lucky Country lost its ardour and ambition?
• Peter Brent: Why greatness will probably elude Joe

Abbott, Credlin, reshuffle

• Jane Gilmore: Leadership: Hitting the reset button
• Niki Savva: It’s the best and worst of times
• Geoff Kitney: Can Tony Abbott hang on to his leadership?

2014 in review

• Lenore Taylor: Politics in 2014: the Coalition dished out slogans, and its sentence is clear
• Laura Tingle: Exhausted government is searching for alibis

Other thinkiness

• Martin McKenzie-Murray: The year that was: seeking meaning inside a vacuum

By request, my posts for the week:

• Does the ministry ‘stability’ border on stagnation?
• Why the PM’s Peta Problem is not going away
• MYEFO: Why we should care
• Julie Bishop for PM? Unlikely
• 2014: The Year that was (best viewed on tablet)

No Crap App: w/b 1 Dec 2014

Lobbecke, The Australian 6 Dec 2014

Abbott’s woes

• Jack Waterford: Tony Abbott should be looking to the message, rather than the messenger
• David Crowe: Tony Abbott must start listening
• Dennis Atkins: Why Tony Abbott’s government is in deep trouble
• Dennis Shanahan: Cruising in opposition, adrift in government
• Jonathan Green: Is history repeating itself already for Tony Abbott?
• Michael Gordon: Prime Minister Tony Abbott is feeling the heat after a ‘ragged’ year
• Lenore Taylor: The Coalition’s own messages are neither coherent nor convincing

Budget

• Tim Colebatch: More reasons why the Abbott budget is so hard to sell
• Jane Gilmore: CSIRO cuts: be very alarmed

Victorian election

• Ben Eltham: Victoria’s Swing To The Left: Eltham’s Analysis Of Saturday’s Result
• Stephen Mills: Rules for Radicals comes to Carrum
• Wendy Harmer: “You should have seen this coming, guys.”

End-of-year thinkiness

• Peter Browne: Gap year
• Lenore Taylor: Three things a good government would do
• Katharine Murphy: Five things we’ve learned from the year in politics
• Greg Jericho: ‘Year of delivery’ draws to a close, but are voters buying it?

Other crunchy brain food

• Greg Jericho: Don’t use Hughes’ death to beat your own drum
• Monica Attard: Julie Bishop goes nuclear

By request, my posts for the week

• Chief of staff job too big for one person
• Sorry Clive, honeymoon’s over
• Are pollies kids fair game in political journalism?
• Here’s your lump of coal. Merry Xmas.
• Class of 2014