No Crap App: 6 Jul 2015

Rowe, AFR 8 Jul 2015

• Gay Alcorn: Look past Bill Shorten – this was an interrogation of our political system
• Tony Walker: Bill Shorten and Labor’s leadership dilemma
• Katharine Murphy: Bill Shorten at the royal commission: no killer blow, but now for the aftermath
• Niki Savva: Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten in bad odour with electorate
• Laura Tingle: Ministers’ comments show an unhappy government
• Katharine Murphy: Tony Abbott’s pointless whims uncover those who refuse to minister to him
• Dennis Atkins: The royal commission has exposed systemic greed and personal gain in trade unions

By request, my posts for the week

• Liberal right is all bark, no bite on same-sex marriage
• Richard Di Natale’s big gamble with the Greens
• Bill Shorten feels the slow burn of royal commission’s interrogation
• Will the real Bill Shorten please stand up
• Pollies escape scrutiny as Shorten is grilled

 

No Crap App: w/b 25 May 2015

Pope, Canb Times 26 May 2015

Government

• Phil Coorey: Dumb policy keeps Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey in polling peril
• Greg Jericho: Driven to distraction
• Lenore Taylor: Debacle over terrorism and citizenship is leak-based policy in its purest form
• Laura Tingle: The Abbott government’s terrorism Bingo! Playing chicken on national security
• Michael Gordon: Citizenship: it’s Abbott facing exile
• Andrew Probyn: Next federal election shaping up to be best of worst

Labor

• Paul Rodan: Is this the only leader less likely than Tony Abbott to win the next election?
• David Crowe: Bill Shorten’s same-sex initiative baffles like-minded Libs
• Jonathan Green: Same-sex marriage is an easy vote for MPs unwilling to tackle broader social issues
• Niki Savva: Conroy and Wong lead the charge as Labor goes to war with itself

Greens

• Sophie Morris: Richard Di Natale’s plans to reboot the Australian Greens

Other thinkiness

• Malcolm Farnsworth: An early election?

By request, my posts for the week

•  Shorten needs to refine his brand of attack
• Sloppy Joe’s loose lips land the PM in hot water

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 23 Feb 2015

Photo: Ellinghausen, SMH 27 Feb 2015

Liberal leadership (in roughly chronological order)

• William Bowe: Poll Bludger: dead-cat bounce for Tony, with Malcolm lurking in the wings
• Peter Hartcher: Tony Abbott clutching at straws in attempt to protect remaining support base
• Niki Savva: Peta Credlin’s toxic lecture to ‘gossips’
• Peter van Onselen: Throwing the media dogs a daily bone, it’s the government way
• David Crowe: Liberals hoping to dump Abbott find their Macbeth is a little Dusty
• Peter Hartcher: Baird effect v Abbott effect: A precarious balance
• Lenore Taylor: Paranoia grips Liberals as self-defeating Abbott lurches from one disaster to the next
• Laura Tingle: Tony Abbott in a swamp along with reform
• Sophie Morris: Plotting the anti-Tony Abbott forces
• Tony Walker: Abbott ignored all the key lessons
• Paul Kelly: Abbott faces leadership spill again, but Turnbull wants to wait

Triggs

• Jonathan Green: The speech Abbott could have made about Triggs
• Annabel Crabb: Triggs takes the punches that should be hitting Labor

Other thinkiness

• Dennis Atkins: Social Services Minister Scott Morrison is transforming himself but can a leopard really change its spots?
• Greg Jericho: Pro tip to the government – don’t forget to use your incumbency
• Tim Dunlop: Is media objectivity an outdated model?
• Tracey Spicer: Crying bias a tired “old media” story
• Elizabeth Humphrys: Anti-politics and the illusions of neoliberalism
• Tim Colebatch: Polls and preferences: the new challenge for election watchers

By request, my posts for the week

•  So much for a “more consultative” PM
• Can Abbott survive his “war on terror”?
• Abbott’s flagging fortunes on full, proud display
• Scott Morrison a beacon of hope and danger for PM

No Crap App: w/b 16 Feb 2015

Lobbecke, Aust 19 Feb 2015

Abbott

• Niki Savva: Philip Ruddock’s sacking another wrong call by Abbott
• Peter Hartcher: Tony Abbott plays the wrong card
• Jack Waterford: Tony Abbott making it worse fro Bali nine clemency bid

Labor

• David Crowe: Labor should step out of policy-free zone
• Nick Dyrenfurth: Labor must go boldly

Political profiles

• Kate Legge: Sussan Ley’s next big challenge

Other thinkiness

• Greg Jericho: Gotcha mentality – not trivia – reveals media, politicians lack economic nous

By request, my posts for the week

• Turnbull: too left to be right for the Liberals?
• Abbott does a De Niro
• Danger lurks ahead for superstar PMs in waiting