No Crap App: Blogging Special

No Crap App’s Blogging Special – featuring a selection of the best posts on federal politics in December 2014

• Mark Fletcher: A bad year to be a sane conservative
• Nathan Lentern: Plenty Of Potential Successors But Only One Potential Rival
• Yale Stephens: Abbott reshuffle a spectacular, paranoid botch
• Preston Towers: The Credlin Stick – Easy to use
• No Place for Sheep: Abbott: Labor made me do it
• Troy Henderson: Whip me master one more time
• Tad Tietze: Australian politics 2014: Decline & decomposition

No Crap App: w/b 17 Nov 2014

Knight, Herald Sun 17 Nov 2014

Apologies for the lack of No Crap App last week.

PUP, FOFA, Lambie etc

• David Crowe: FOFA folly was easily avoidable
• Lenore Taylor: Jacqui Lambie’s Fofa stand: a bunch of fives for Clive, a bunch of six for Tony
• Sophie Morris: Labor rallies crossbench senators over FOFA reforms
• Simon Copland: Will Lambie be the new Palmer?
• John Warhurst: Small parties prone to split, but some elected members prosper as independents

China FTA/G20

• Mike Steketee: Free trade Agreement no guarantee of success
• Greg Jericho: Why isn’t the government being held to account on the China free trade deal?
• Monica Attard: How much have they over-promised?
• Greg Jericho: Tony Abbott’s climate change struggle
• Tom Switzer: Abbott will soon look like a genius for refusing to drag Australia to yet another climate fiasco

Labor

• Troy Bramston: Comrades look to Tanya Plibersek

Political profiles

• Madonna King: Less of a Bishop, more of a Pope

Other thinkiness

• Katharine Murphy: ABC, climate change: the Coalition is drowning us in nonsense
• Peter Brent: What the Senate is telling us about big-party politics
• Tad Tietze: Reply to Callinicos on anti-politics & social struggle
• Norman Abjorensen: Tiger by the tail
• Preston Towers: Applying the whip – The Oz giving tips to their horse
• Jonathan Green: When broken promises become tests of character
• Jane Gimore: Greens should take their sex work principles seriously
• Amy Gray: Mark Latham read my mind. Of course I hate my daughter- I’m a feminist

My posts, by request:

• Abbott’s tough talking comes undone at the G20
• Lambie doesn’t want to stay, doesn’t want to quit
• Stop ‘left-plaining’ feminism to Bishop
• Shorten – do we want another Abbott?
• China FTA – What do we get?

 

 

 

 

 

No Crap App: w/b 16 Jun 2014

Campbell, Canberra Times 18 Jun 2014

Budget

• Steven Scott: Don’t rule out Tony Abbott calling a snap election if he can’t pass budget bills
• Greg Jericho: Joe Hockey: all’s fair in welfare and budgets

Senate

• Phil Coorey: Tony Abbott braces for amateur hour in the Senate
• Deborah Snow & James Massola: United force or a rabble? The face of the new Senate

Coalition

• Sophie Morris: John Williams, Ian Macdonald, Cory Bernardi: enemies within
• Kevin Bonham: Turnbull PM: Not likely any time soon
• Ben Eltham: Coalition won’t have the courage to call an election

Labor

• Laurie Oakes: An overlooked hero of reform

Other thinkiness

• Michael Gordon: Our politics needs to change. Here’s how
• Phil Hudson: Wheels of change grind round at last as Senate departure lounge fills
• Peter Brent: Where are the regions?
• Mark Fletcher: The school chaplains case was a Trojan horse for states’ rights activism
• Preston Towers: Put Down the Graphs, Wonks and Pick up the Megaphones – WonkyTips in the Guardian
• John Warhurst: Official inquiries shine light on the dark side of human nature

 And my posts for the week:

• The Greens play tough but will avoid double trouble
• The new three word slogan
•  The one election promise they’ve kept

 

 

No Crap App: w/b 14 Apr 2014

Lobbecke, The Aust 17 Apr 2014

NSW

• Quentin Dempster: Star chamber that took down a premier
• Lenore Taylor: Barry O’Farrell’s resignation is not an act of unprecedented moral heroism and Labor and Liberals both struck down with NSW disease
• Niki Savva: Premiers rise and fall on their fibs
• Greg Jericho: Why Barry O’Farrell had to resign
• Waleed Aly: Barry O’Farrell’s Liberal machine as rotten as Labor’s
• Jonathan Green: You don’t need ICAC to see lies in politics
• Richard Ackland: ICAC architect Gary Sturgess should be a household name

Federal Budget

• Laura Tingle: Coalition gets fiscal shivers
• Greg Jericho: Abbott’s vision for Australia: a surplus at whatever cost to people’s lives and The land where entitlement runs riot?
• David Uren: A proper budget fix is not quick
• Mark Kenny: Hockey’s new trick: cutting is really spending

Labor

• Mark Rolfe: Identity crisis: who does the Australian Labor Party represent?

Policy issues

• Daniel Nethery: Two indexes, two very different impacts on pensions
• Peter Browne: The asylum-seeker plan that keeps disappearing over the horizon
• Michael Gordon: There real price of stopping the boats
• Preston Towers: “Too much studying, not enough deciding”

Political profiles

• Gay Alcorn: The underdog bites back

And here’s my posts for the week:

•  Ghosts of turncoats past
• Am I a feminist?
• Green is the new black

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No Crap App: 24 Dec 2012 – 6 Jan 2013

Rowe, AFR 22 Dec 2012

Quality Australian political writing is thin on the ground this time of year, but not missing altogether. Here’s a few pieces to get you thinking over the weekend.

• Katharine Murphy: Labor’s policy land grab may pull Abbott into war of ideas
• Tad Tietze: 2012 in review – the year that politics disoriented the Left
• Tony Walkler [$]: Ghosts of Coalition campaigns past
• Pamela Williams [$]: Julia Gillard and the prince
• Bluntshovels: Getting welfare policy out of the goldfish bowl
• Preston Towers: Rise of the Guardians – a new year and a new hope?
• Tory McGuire: Do you really need to “live on the dole” to understand?
• Jeff Sparrow: Short-term stunts are a far cry from lived experience