No Crap App: w/b 27 Apr 2015

Pope, Canb Times 1 May 2015

Bali 9 executions

• Greg Jericho: Indonesia, Australia and the Bali 9 – when symbolism becomes substance
• Amy Maguire: Hard line on refugees undermines principled opposition to execution
• Tony Walker: Challenge is to restore balance with Jakarta
• Piping Shrike: The New Regionalism – another update

Marriage equality

• Royce Millar & Ben Schneiders: Why is the union that represents supermarket workers stopping gay marriage?

Recognition

• Paul Kelly: Polarising forces threaten to derail bid for indigenous recognition

Other thinkiness

• Malcolm Farnsworth: The rush of events, the ballast of history
• Jonathan Green: We’ve nothing to fear but our sense of certainty
• George Megalogenis: History repeats
• Jane Gilmore: The “One in Three” claim about male domestic violence is a myth

By request, my articles for the week

• Greens become the very thing they rebelled against
• The best of times, the worst of times
• Piece by piece, Malcolm Turnbull is selling his soul

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No Crap App: w/b 16 Mar 2015

Pope, Canberra Times 21 Mar 2015

Abbott/government/leadership

• Troy Bramston: Labor alert on Bishop threat
• Peter Brent: How easily we forget
• Michael Gordon: Tony Abbott’s unique despair
• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott launches ‘operation budget success’, but it’s just lipstick on a pig
• Lenore Taylor: Malcolm Fraser’s steady hand is in stark contrast to Tony Abbott’s chaotic manoeuvres
• Greg Jericho: Bad policy, woeful politics – can we fix it?
• David Crowe: Struggling Coalition may not be up to the task of governing
• Laura Tingle: Being governed by fools is not funny

Double dissolution

• Peter Brent: Would Tony do it?
• Phil Coorey: Desparate Abbott looks at the barnacles in the Senate

Labor

• Troy Bramston: Bill Shorten causes Labor dismay over lack of ideas

Malcolm Fraser

• John Howard: Malcolm Fraser was a true believer in liberalism
• Katharine Murphy: Malcolm Fraser had no Damascene conversion – he always championed human rights
• Laurie Oakes: Malcolm Fraser was a man of contrasts
• Margaret Simons: Malcolm Fraser’s long debate and being true to his ideals
• Paul Kelly: Malcolm Fraser: Achievements were less than his promise
• Cameron Stewart: Fraser: Farewell to a true liberal everyone could admire
• Tony Wright: The day Malcolm Fraser saved my career as a journalist

Other thinkiness

• Piping Shrike: Lifestyle
• Jonathan Green: The next great reform will be of politics itself
• Marija Taflaga: Small targets, small ambitions

By request, my posts for the week

• Turnbull’s new pitch as Mr Right 
• Get over Credlin and get some balls
• The myth of two Malcolm Frasers
• Malcolm Fraser: Australia’s last great ‘moderate’

 

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

No Crap App: w/b 22 Dec 2014

Lobbecke, Aust 27 Dec 2014

Abbott Government

• Greg Craven: Labor and Liberals need to deal with each other to regain respect
• Paul Kelly: Tricky year ahead for Tony Abbott after a dismal 2014
• Jacqueline Maley: Women expect a better half from Team Abbott

Reshuffle

• Peter van Onselen: Reshuffle unlikely to be the last
• Tim Dunlop: The more things shuffle, more they stay the same
• Peter Brent: Scott down, Julie to go
• Norman Abjorensen: Ministry changes to stifle any Bishop challenge

Sydney siege

• Piping Shrike: Home front – an update
• Leigh Sales: ‘Ordinary days’ that go disastrously wrong rattle our sense of security

Policy

• El Gibbs: Scott Morrison needs to realise the Disability Support Pension actually saves money and lives

Political profile

• Tony Walker: Glenn Druery: the toned vote peddler

By request, my posts for the week

• Ministry reshuffle built on paranoia, not progress
• Our second “woman of merit”

No Crap App: w/b 8 Dec 2014

Pope, Canb Times, 10 Dec 2014

Credlin free zone

• Dennis Atkins: The year of riding dangerously
• Steven Scott: Treasurer Joe Hockey’s gaffes and poor salesmanship have to end as he prepares for his Budget update
• Lenore Taylor: Coalition’s own messages are neither coherent nor convincing
• Greg Jericho: Electorate left seeing red, but will the Government take off rose-coloured glasses?
• Waleed Aly: Nothing can wipe the smile off this mug
• Paul Kelly (with minimal Credlin): Abbott’s barnacle removal essential to Liberal reboot
• Tim Dunlop: Tony Abbott is not the problem
• Jonathan Green: As the year unwinds, the Government unravels
• Piping Shrike: Positioning
• Tony Walker: The problem stalking Australia’s halls of economic power
• Peter Brent: Bragging rights
• Gabrielle Chan: A Country Round: should the Nationals rethink their place in the Coalition

What to do about Peta (not Peter)

• Lenore Taylor: By fighting so hard for the PM, Peta Credlin has put Abbott in a corner
• Anne Summers: For Peta Credlin, the gender card has been dealt again
• Laura Tingle: The curse of Rudd descends onto Abbott’s office
• Peter van Onselen: Peta Credlin has become the story and that’s bad news for Tony Abbott
• Dennis Shanahan: Peta Credlin and Joe Hockey not to be replaced
• David Crowe (more ministry than Credlin): Ring the political changes

Asylum seekers

• Paul Syvret: Abbott Government’s legislation makes Australia a rogue state regarding international law and human rights
• Michael Gordon: Scott Morrison’s headlock politics rule

Political profiles

• Jane Cadzow: Eyes on the prize: would-be PM Bill Shorten
• John van Tiggelen: Sense and Sensibility: Tanya Plibersek plays it cool
• Sophie Morris: David Morrison breaking the brass ceiling in the ADF

Other thinkiness

• Liz Humphrys & Tad Tietze: Abolishing the present state of things

By request, my posts for the week

• Abbott must heed past mistakes, not repeat them
• Please not childcare too
• Defence of Credlin a career-limiting move?
• Tribute to a Labor warrior