No Crap App: w/b 11 May 2015

Lobbecke, Aust 12 May 2015

Budget

• Ross Gittins: Small measures and a media circus
• Michael Pascoe: The Law of Unintended Consequences hits Happy Joe
• Tim Colebatch: The budget: mostly normal, partly unreal
• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott’s budget promises and Labor’s reply are both about expediency
• Laura Tingle: Tony Abbott sharpens his election tools
• Paul Kelly: Abbott-Shorten conflicts clear after 2015 budget
• James Massola: Bringing home the bacon, saving the base
• Dennis Atkins: Budget shows Tony Abbott’s capacity to fight back should never be underestimated
• Jonathan Green: We’ve fallen through the ideological looking glass
• Ben Eltham: George Brandis’ extraordinary raid of the Australia Council

PPL

• David Crowe: Foot still dangerously close to mouth
• Andrew Probyn: Confessions of a double-dipping rorter
• Peter Martin: Could the Coalition have been any dumber?

Labor

• Laurie Oakes: Bill Shorten must act like a leader
• Troy Bramston: Lessons in British election for Shorten and ALP

And also…

• Katharine Murphy: Australian budget week: five things we learned

By request, my posts for the week

• Government rolls dice on Labor-lite budget
• Promising fairness, delivering incompetence
• Budget week bun fight

 

No Crap App: w/b 4 May 2015

Knight, Herald Sun

Budget

• Andrew Probyn: Treasurer Joe Hockey facing his crunch time
• Dennis Atkins: Abbott Government’s future rests on its crucial second Budget
• Michael Gordon: Tony Abbott gambles on the fairness factor
• David Crowe: Politics of distortion is a poor match for fair-minded debate
• Lenore Taylor: Coalition’s unwillingness to tax means commitment to fairness won’t last
• Ross Gittins: The budget circus isn’t the whole show
• Peter Martin: Expect a do-nothing budget that will cost us time
• Jonathan Green: Budget will be a true test of authenticity

Labor

• Troy Bramston: ‘Consultation draft’ platform shows Labor is anchored in the past

Greens

• Sophie Morris: Milne, Di Natale and Greens’ deliberate leadership coup
• Greg Jericho: How Di Natale hopes to grow the Greens vote
• Tad Tietze: The Greens after Milne: Running out of options?

Other thinkiness

• Malcolm Farnsworth: History doesn’t repeat

By request, my articles for the week

• Political leaks leave voters in the dark
• Egalitarianism is under threat?
• Was Christine Milne pushed or did she jump?
• Scott Morrison steals the show

No Crap App: w/b 13 Apr 2015

Budget

• Lenore Taylor: Who will lose most from the 2015 budget (apart from the government)?
• Laura Tingle: Surfing the budget’s ebbs and flows
• Phil Coorey: Some brutal budget honesty might go a long way
• Peter Martin: Why Hockey will have to clean up Costello’s superannuation mess
• Tom Burton: Why Dr Karl did Treasury a big favour

COAG/GST

• Laurie Oakes: Prime Minister Tony Abbott draws no battlelines
• Terry Barnes: COAG: sound and fury, signifying not very much
• Tim Colebatch: The true story of Western Australia and the GST

Anzac

• Jonathan Green: Gallipoli 2015: Lest we forget to turn a buck
• Helen Razer: Woolworths’ Anzac campaign perfectly appropriate to what Gallipoli has become

Other thinkiness

• Mike Steketee: Can the Greens keep the bastards honest?
• Malcolm Farnsworth: Peering through

By request, my posts for the week

• New polls but the same old pain for Abbott
• Politics’ winners and losers

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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 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