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- Tim Dunlop: Is media objectivity an outdated model?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