No Crap App: w/b 9 Feb 2015

Letch, SMH 13 Feb 2015

Abbott / leadership

• Rodney Tiffen: Thinking of dumping a prime minister? History isn’t encouraging
• Dominic Knight: Abbott’s ironic reversal of political fortune
• Piping Shrike: Implosion
• Paul Kelly: Tony Abbott crippled by his own backbench
• David Crowe: Base politics is at the heart of Liberals’ power struggle
• Mark Skulley: Emperor’s new clothes only part of the Coalition’s problems
• Jack Waterford: Will the public come to Tony Abbott’s party?
• Niki Savva: Down periscope: Abbott torpedoes himself
• David Crowe: Abbott’s pleading calls can’t be made again
• Peter Brent: The trouble with friends
• Peter Hartcher: Tony Abbott ripe for knockout blow
• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott’s authoritarian need to attack just leaves him looking weak
• Norman Abjorensen: Can Abbott change?
• Paul Kelly: Dangerous quest for survival
• Michael Gordon: Tony Abbott’s leadership is going backwards
• Chris Wallace: The press gallery’s leadership thrills and spills

Budget/economy

• Peter Martin: Why the government is a brake on the economy
• Greg Jericho: The truth about ‘bludgers’: welfare dependency in Australia is falling
• Greg Jericho: We want the whole budget story, not just half

Other thinkiness

• Patricia Karvelas: Closing the Gap: how are we getting it so wrong?

By request, my posts for the week

• The Liberal rebellion is far from over
• Abbott’s leadership still on the line

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 22 Dec 2014

Lobbecke, Aust 27 Dec 2014

Abbott Government

• Greg Craven: Labor and Liberals need to deal with each other to regain respect
• Paul Kelly: Tricky year ahead for Tony Abbott after a dismal 2014
• Jacqueline Maley: Women expect a better half from Team Abbott

Reshuffle

• Peter van Onselen: Reshuffle unlikely to be the last
• Tim Dunlop: The more things shuffle, more they stay the same
• Peter Brent: Scott down, Julie to go
• Norman Abjorensen: Ministry changes to stifle any Bishop challenge

Sydney siege

• Piping Shrike: Home front – an update
• Leigh Sales: ‘Ordinary days’ that go disastrously wrong rattle our sense of security

Policy

• El Gibbs: Scott Morrison needs to realise the Disability Support Pension actually saves money and lives

Political profile

• Tony Walker: Glenn Druery: the toned vote peddler

By request, my posts for the week

• Ministry reshuffle built on paranoia, not progress
• Our second “woman of merit”

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 11 Aug 2014

Pope, 14 Aug 2014

Abbott, Hockey and the Government

• Ben Eltham: Abbott’s early on-set of mid-term blues
• Piping Shrike: Chaos
• Phil Coorey: It’s hard to understand voters from the VIP lounge
• Tony Walker: No place for ‘must’ in Prime Minister’s vocabulary
• Laura Tingle: A government that fails to marshal its thoughts
• Greg Jericho: Road to nowhere – the fuel excise ain’t a progressive tax
• Barrie Cassidy: No more Mr Nice Joe
• Paul Bongiorno: Base politics
• Laurie Oakes: Joe Hockey wins the Goose Award
• Lenore Taylor: Joe Hockey may be sorry, but that doesn’t mean he gets it
• Paul Kelly: Tony Abbott: pragmatic but don’t expect to see a U-turn

 Other thinkiness

• Norman Abjorensen: Labor, the Coalition and the problem of political identity
• Tim Dunlop: A plea to the left: push back harder
• Frank Stilwell: Inequality: an old concern given new prominence
• Jonathan Green: Manipulation and the politics of fear
• Katharine Murphy: We must look past shock tactics like a child holding a severed head in Syria

 

And my posts for the week:

• Abbott’s survival relies on knowing when to fold ’em
• Unloved Joe Hockey: poetic justice
• Hockey, Shorten: tongue tied and in trouble