No Crap App: w/b 15 Apr 2013

Rowe, AFR 15 Apr 2013

Policy

• Stephanie Peatling: The brave and the foolhardy
• Geoff Kitney: Tony Shepherd ducks out just when he’s needed
• Laura Tingle: Coalition undermines Labor’s drive to set new agenda
• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Crying poor
• Tim Colebatch: We remain class-based without Gonski reforms
• Tom Dusevic: ‘Education PM’ makes smart strategy move
• Paul Kelly: PM needs magic to get a Gonski
• Peter Hartcher: Reforms a lesson in politics
• Michael Gordon: From class wars to classroom war – the Gillard battle plan

Politics

• Michael Gordon: PM’s comeback now consigned to history
• Paul Kelly: Solidarity with union movement makes Julia Gillard weaker
• James Supple: Right-wing Labor’s in freefall – so why are union leaders backing Gillard? 
• Peter Lewis: In the federal election, parties and personalities matter

Media

• Jonathan Green: What separates a death in Iraq from one in Boston?
• Virginia Trioli: Won’t stop now

Crunchy brain food (longer read)

• Katharine Murphy: This connected life

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No Crap App: w/b 4 Mar 2013

Rowe, AFR 6 March 2013

The politics of employment

• Malcolm Farr: Why cutting wages is a fool’s way to boost the economy
• Katharine Murphy: Free for all on foreigners as leaders chase votes
• Laura Tingle [$]: Dodgy policy does job for desperate PM
• Peter Hartcher: The ‘first rule’ that eludes leaders
• Laurie Oakes: Abbott joking, but there’s a punchline
• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Fairness goes beyond economic equality

What Labor stands for

• Peter Brent: The Howard hangover
• Mark Latham: Labor gets left on the outer
• Tim Watts: Labor’s future lies in progressive leadership, not progressive liberalism
• Jeff Sparrow: Thoughts on the Gillard-Abbott election
• Tony Walker [$]: Labor needs to look outward, not inward

Festival of western Sydney

• Jacqueline Maley: Can the west be won?
• Jonathan Green: The political machine’s fleeting visit with reality
• Ben Eltham: There’s something about western Sydney
• Ben Eltham: A will but no way – how fear of debt jams transport policy
• In a blatant act of cross-promotion, I also draw your attention to the excellent series on Western Sydney plus many other quality posts over at the federal election group blog AusVotes 2013.

Other good pieces

• Ross Gittins: Lies, damned lies and Labor claims
• Michael Gordon: Worlds apart, but the pain’s the same when the axe falls
• Peter Lewis: The game’s not up – could voters have a change of heart?
• Andrew Elder: Australia’s political parties in the Asian Century

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No Crap App: w/b 10 Dec 2012

Moir, SMH 11 Dec 2012

FM radio pranksters

• Katharine Murphy: No one is laughing now
• Preston Towers: Destroying the joint? Austereo and our moral and social compass
• Jennifer Hewett: In a connected age, no rules, no mercy

Ashby v Slipper

• Laura Tingle: Labor’s chance to turn the tables on Libs
• Richard Ackland: Ashby case a shocking spectacle
• Terry Sweetman: Silence of main players in Peter Slipper pursuit deafening
• Bernard Lagan: Judge, there’s a grub in my scoop

Economics

• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Austerity has been tried and found wanting
• Ross Gittins: Life gets tougher, far from the madding crowd
• Laura Tingle: Labor needs some lessons in chutzpah

Senator Assange

• Antony Green: What chance of Julian Assange being elected to the Senate?

The political year that was

• Jonathan Green: The politics of mutually assured destruction
• John Warhurst: All out war – the year that was Australian politics
• Ross Peake: Gender an evolution in Gillard strategy
• Tim Dunlop: The front page of Australian politics
• Polyquant: The high and low points of 2012
• Best political cartoons 2012

Psephology

• Peter Lewis: How the generation gap became a chasm
• Poliquant: Is the Coalition vulnerable to interest rates?

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No Crap App: w/b 19 Nov 2012

Rowe, AFR 21 Nov 2012

Malcolm and Kevin show

• Katharine Murphy: Ruddbull appeal says much about state of politics
• Peter Lewis: Looking at Ruddbull through rose-coloured rear-view mirrors

2013 election

• Nigel Bowen: Howard’s blueprint has hardly changed
• Steven Scott: Labor clings to hope of turning electoral tide
• Peter Brent: An Australian Nate Silver?
• Barrie Cassidy: No match for the bagman and the bogeyman
• Alex White: It’s the personal contact stupid

Asylum seekers

• Cameron Stewart: Pacific non-solution
• Phil Coorey: Boats policy comes full circle
• Ben Eltham: Asylum policy brings more cruelty, more boats
• Laura Tingle: Both sides in a sea of trouble over asylum
• Jonathan Green: Refugees, women – pawns in political power equation

IR/productivity/economics

• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: What does the data say about Australia’s IR war?
• Phillip Hudson: Where is the money for everything coming from?

No Crap App: w/b 12 Nov 2012

The week that was…

The Royal Commission was big news this week, with some suggesting the debate over the confessional was an unnecessary distraction. The Australian’s Paul Kelly criticised it for focussing only on institutionalised child abuse, when so much of it occurs within the home. Elsewhere, Irvine and Jericho did their best to improve our economic literacy, Dunlop and Green continued their dissection of the media, and some writers lifted their eyes past Christmas to the 2013 federal election. Also included is a longer read from Linda Jaivin on writing.

The economy

• Jessica Irvine: We’re afflicted with the same fiscal flab most governments struggle with
• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: US fiscal brinksmanship and its threat to Australia

The Royal Commission

• Michelle Grattan: Thinking outside the box – apply the same rules to all
• Waleed Aly: Choir of dissent off-key on the sanctity of confession
• Annabel Crabb: Stopping abuse goes way beyond the confessional
• Andrew Clark [$]: Catholics and bitter politics
• Paul Kelly: Commission on child sex abuse a depressing example of populist politics

The 2013 election

• Peter Lewis: Inevitable defeat for the ALP no longer so inevitable
• Pollytics: Trends, the horserace and random numbers
• Poliquant: The next Senate on current polls
• Barrie Cassidy: Any result is possible with leaders this unpopular
• Laurie Oakes: More to rebranding than softer edges
• Peter van Onselen: Tony Abbott needs new direction to get his mission home
• Geoff Kitney: Parties primed for 2013 poll dance
• Peter Brent: Proportion of unenrolled young people

The media

• Tim Dunlop: The big media complex is open for business
• Jonathan Green: Partisan hyperbole – mistaking a claque for a clap

On writing

• Linda Jaivin: Confessions of a graphomaniac

Sunday addition

• Kevin Bonham: As Gillard recovered, so can Abbott