No Crap App: w/b 30 Jun 2014

Pope, Canberra Times 3 Jul 2014

Asylum seekers

• Lenore Taylor: Yes, Tony Abbott has ‘stopped the boats’. But the cost is catastrophic
• Jack Waterford: We will remember – but without pride

Surveillance

• Sophie Morris: George Brandis’s creeping spy powers

Budget

• David Crowe: Abbott paints himself into a corner over budget savings
• Mark Kenny: The wild ride is just beginning for Abbott
• Phil Coorey: Tony Abbott and his fading $25 billion sales pitch

Welfare reform

• El Gibbs: Can you work? That’s all the Australian Government wants to know
• Stella Young: Disabling rorters? More like punishing the scapegoats
• Greg Jericho: Hang on, youths already earn and learn

Palmer

• Niki Savva: Palmer making the PM’s job that much harder
• Lenore Taylor: Clive Palmer: I just have my brain, which is pretty effective

Abbott

• Paul Daley: Australia ‘unsettled’ before the British came? Tony Abbott knows better
• Peter van Onselen: Abbott trapped in downward spiral all of his making

Party reform

• Geoff Gallop: What should Labor stand for?
• John Warhurst: How do they get the people to the party

Climate change politics

• Evan Beaver: When Ciev comes to town
• Peter Brent: Dancing in the dark
• Greg Foyster: The question greenies are too afraid to discuss
• Jonathan Holmes: Scientists try new tack to win over sceptics
• Phillip Chubb: Carbon pricing: how Labor failed the nation

Political profile

• Jacqueline Maley: Sarah Ferguson on 7.30 and what makes her tick

Other thinkiness

• Tony Walker: The best way to play a dragon
• Katharine Murphy: A week of transitions in politics: five things to ponder
• Paul Kelly: Politics in crisis and a nation in denial
• Tim Dunlop: The right hates the society it has created
• Sarah Burnside: It’s the ideology, stupid! Australians aren’t as pragmatic as we think
• Tim Dunlop: The slow death of the Australian middle class

And my posts for the week:

•  Green groups struggle to turn anger to action
• First day of Senate kindy
• Smoke and mirrors: What Clive Palmer’s really up to

 

No Crap App: w/b 11 Feb 2013

Pope, Canberra Times 14 Feb 2013

Politics

• Michael Gordon: Rudd’s long cold shower heats up as leadership stress grows
• Laura Tingle [$]: All about keeping the Stringbags happy
• Paul Kelly: Abbott should avoid risks of small-target plan
• Peter Brent: No escape from polls
• Geoff Gallop: When discipline really matters in politics
• Greg Craven: Watch out, we are in clover
• Katharine Murphy: Katter’s world causing cluster headaches

Policy

• Ross Gittins: Reserve Bank bursts bubble of certainty
• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: We’re not in recession but it feels like we are
• Malcolm Farr: Now we don’t even believe the good news
• Paul Kelly: Labor’s conflict – how to fund its vision without wrecking the economy
• Paul Daley: Mind the gap, right the wrongs
• Peter Brent: It’ll take a change of government
• David Uren: Fundamental tax flaw is that mining doesn’t generate super profits
• Peter Martin: How Canberra got diddled
• Laura Tingle [$]: How a deadly tax divides Labor
• Ben Eltham: Prepare for a Fair Work showdown

Thinky pieces about the media and more

• Jane Gilmore: Losing the narrative
• Jeff Sparrow: Election year’s battle of the beige
• Jonathan Green: The facts won’t speak for themselves
• Don Arthur: Wonkworld vs the Mediaverse
• Tim Dunlop: We need more criticism of the media, not less
• Tad Tietze:  Truth, lies and narratives – What ALP’s crisis is NOT about
• Richard Ackland: Be careful what you defend to the death

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No Crap App: w/b 25 Jun 2012

Pope, Canberra Times 28 Jun 2012

The week that was…

The main political events this week had a common underlying theme: craven politics barely hidden behind a tattered moral veil. Whether it was the Slipper/ Ashby saga (no links provided), asylum seekers or the future of Fairfax, those who made the loudest claims to integrity were often the ones most blatantly pursuing political ends.

The links provided this week on asylum seekers cover a broad range of considered pieces exploring the dilemma, while other links explore why Fairfax matters, the tricky concept called public interest, and a media owner’s right to set editorial policy.

Finally, there’s a preview from George Megalogenis on the carbon price, which comes into force on Sunday.

Asylum seekers

• Ben Eltham: Asylum seekers a wicked problem
• Leanne Weber: Why asylum seekers come by boat
• Beachdair: The compact of deceit
• Michael Gordon: Sound-bite diplomacy no solution to asylum seeker quandary
• Peter Brent: Boats fuel Greens
• Louise Dodson: Raw emotions fail to stem brinksmanship
• Barrie Cassidy: In this policy vacuum surely Malaysia is worth a try
• Laurie Oakes: Giving new meaning to the term Rats in the Ranks

Future of Fairfax

• Rodney Tiffen: Why Fairfax matters
• Richard Ackland: The obscure world of public interest
• Christopher Joye: Editorial stance a right of media owners

Carbon price

George Megalogenis: Gillard’s stab in the dark

Sunday addition

• David Penberthy: Orgy of nothingness enough to make you cry
• Michelle Grattan: Greens are as stubborn as Abbott
• Paul Daley: Politics sinks us to new lows

No Crap App: w/b 7 May 2012

Moir, SMH 8 May 2012

The week that was….

It was Budget week, the political fallout from which is becoming known as the various post-Budget polls are published. The media devoted forests of column inches and Kilowatts of electrons to Budget reportage, analysis and opinion. I’ve collected here links to the best pieces immeditately after the budget and also from the end-of-week analysis.

Also listed are some interesting pieces from Antony Green and Mumble on the permutations of various impending elections. And an excellent piece from Jonathan Green about the changed nature of political debate.

The budget

• Paul Kelly: Swan’s making a values judgement
• Shaun Carney: Five candles but it’s no party for a government under siege
• Annabel Crabb: The passion of Wayne
• Peter Hartcher: Prudence marries politics – but the love might not last
• Tom Dusevic: Stick to your goal even as posts keep moving
• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Battlers and the big picture – budget’s no game changer
• Dennis Atkins: Swan mines boom benefit in Budget
• Laura Tingle: Government’s reverse psychology

Abbott’s response

• Lenore Taylor: Amid Abbott’s criticisms, unanswered questions fester

End of the week analysis

• Laura Tingle: Surplus a lifebouy Labor can cling to
• George Megalogenis: Abbott has to drop the fistful of dollars
• Paul Kelly: Economic policy trapped by a tainted parliament
• Michael Gordon: A class act
• Laurie Oakes: Saints and sinners, whores and lost souls

Whereto from here?

• Paul Daley: Parliament’s pariahs are lonely
• Misha Schubert: An incredible tale
• Antony Green: Updates on various matters political
• Mumbletwits / Peter Brent: Three-cornered contests good or bad for the Coalition?
• Jonathan Green: Political discussion enters the age of the uninformed

Don’t forget to check the other No Crap App pages: Longer Reads, Political Profiles and Whither Australian Political Journalism.

No Crap App: w/b 26 Mar 2012

Queensland election entrails

• Tony Wright: Losers turn on Bligh, who fires a final shot
• Laura Tingle: Coming for you next, Gillard
• George Megalogenis: Federal-state divide offers Gillard some hope
• Jack Waterford: Now the Liberals make history
• Jennifer Hewett: Federal Labor in denial
• Ian McAuley: The economic furphies that sank Bligh
• Mark Latham: Bligh’s spin creates flood of distrust
• Peter Brent / Mumble: Queensland result under CPV

Back to the main game

• Young Fabians: Labor’s lost youth vote
• Tad Tietze: Zombie social democracy, or the ALP as Australia’s political ‘Walking Dead’
• GrogsGamut: Getting behind the wheel in the new nanny state
• Sabine Wolff: If the government’s broken, dump it
• Richard Ackland: It takes a scrupulous media to uncover a flawed one
• Tim Colebatch: Swan’s foolish surplus fetish
• Laura Tingle: Power play not so down to earth
• Laurie Oakes: It’s time Labor took a hard look at itself
• Ross Peake: Takeaway message is integrity
• George Megalogenis: Carbon tax adds fuel to the ire
• Paul Daley: Like a good joke, they need to get it