No Crap App: w/b 29 June 2015

Rowe, AFR 3 Jul 2015

Coalition

• Michael Gordon: Coalition vote on marriage equality still a long shot
• Phil Coorey: Tony Abbott’s gay marriage stance an apology to base for earlier transgressions
• Ky Chow: Include migrant communities in the same-sex debate
• Laura Tingle: An even more problematic rights debate looms for Tony Abbott

Labor

• Michael Gordon: Shorten’s chance to reveal his true self

Other thinkiness

• Peter Craven: Q & A’s danger of irritating the conservative in anybody

By request, my articles for the week

• Credlin’s mission to remove the Liberal’s woman problem
• Political weekly: Hockey all smiles as Labor Right rocks the boat

No Crap App: w/b 22 June 2015

Rowe, AFR 25 June 2015

• David Crowe: Both sides of politics play charades while dodging vital reforms
• Phil Coorey: Labor helps government pass legislation
• Laura Tingle: The Coalition has found that fear is a powerful weapon against Labor
• Lenore Taylor: Bill Shorten’s crisis of confidence: how poll frontrunner became hollow man
• Antony Green: An Early Election? Could there be a Double Dissolution?
• Jonathan Green: Zaky Mallah, Q&A, and the media at its worst

By request, my posts for the week

• Don’t like our current leaders? Good luck finding real alternatives
• Political weekly: Shorten’s career limiting move

No Crap App: w/b 25 May 2015

Pope, Canb Times 26 May 2015

Government

• Phil Coorey: Dumb policy keeps Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey in polling peril
• Greg Jericho: Driven to distraction
• Lenore Taylor: Debacle over terrorism and citizenship is leak-based policy in its purest form
• Laura Tingle: The Abbott government’s terrorism Bingo! Playing chicken on national security
• Michael Gordon: Citizenship: it’s Abbott facing exile
• Andrew Probyn: Next federal election shaping up to be best of worst

Labor

• Paul Rodan: Is this the only leader less likely than Tony Abbott to win the next election?
• David Crowe: Bill Shorten’s same-sex initiative baffles like-minded Libs
• Jonathan Green: Same-sex marriage is an easy vote for MPs unwilling to tackle broader social issues
• Niki Savva: Conroy and Wong lead the charge as Labor goes to war with itself

Greens

• Sophie Morris: Richard Di Natale’s plans to reboot the Australian Greens

Other thinkiness

• Malcolm Farnsworth: An early election?

By request, my posts for the week

•  Shorten needs to refine his brand of attack
• Sloppy Joe’s loose lips land the PM in hot water

No Crap App: w/b 18 May 2015

Rowe, AFR 23 May 2015

Budget

• Alan Kohler: Modern budgets are exercises in spin – and this year was no exception
• Greg Jericho: If you’re going to compare levels of income and welfare, do it fairly
• Phil Coorey: Consistency, not whiplash, is key to political success
• Ross Gittins: Dishonest to resist curbs on spending and oppose higher taxes
• Lenore Taylor: Belt up, fellow Australians: we’re in for another Big Stupid tax debate

Asylum seekers

• Daniel Flitton: Foreign policy compromised by asylum seeker solution

Abbott

• Mark Kenny: Abbott’s policy flip-flopping is a bit of a worry

Labor

• David Crowe: Bill Shorten’s weapons losing firepower

Political profiles

• Cameron Atfield: New Senator Joanna Lindgren ‘no’ on same-sex marriage

Other

• Alan Ramsey: The Faulkner papers a rich treasure trove for the National Archives
• Tim Dunlop: Is democracy rapidly making way for oligarchy?

By request, my posts for the week

• An equity war could stifle the post-budget glow
• Throw-away lines that backfired

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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