No Crap App: w/b 21 Jul 2014

Pope, Canberra Times 22 Jul 2014

MH17

• Monica Attard: MH17, Putin, and the truth
• Michael Gawenda: Searching for the ‘real’ Tony Abbott
• Tim Dunlop: In a national disaster, who speaks for us?
• Jonathan Green: Abbott should speak from the heart more often
• Michael Gordon: The best and worst of Australia on display
• Sophie Morris: Security council ties that bind

Coalition

• David Marr: A bulldog jaw and solemn warnings – but India calls the shots
• Mark Rolfe: Early missteps show Abbott needs a plan B to deal with the Senate
• Laura Tingle: Joe Hockey opens the book on a misfiring government
• Lenore Taylor: Maybe not your average Joe, but going for tough budget cuts is nothing special
• Annabel Crabb: Context pops Hockey right in the kisser – again

Other thinkiness

• Wendy Harmer: The outer limits of compassion
• Sarah Malik: When tragedy strikes, even onlookers can suffer
• Shaun Carney: Are voters set to stop giving first-term leaders a second chance?
• Paul Strangio: The myth of crisis in Australian politics

And my posts for the week:

• Purists and pragmatists clash on climate action
• Is MH17 Abbott’s turning point

No Crap App: w/b 5 Aug 2013

Pope, 9 Aug 2013

It’s on

• Shaun Carney: Election 2013 – the campaign that never ended

Rudd

• Jonathan Green: A presidential battle – charisma versus reserve

Abbott

• Katharine Murphy: Tony Abbott has another rival in the toughest race of his life – himself

Interest rates

• Greg Jericho: Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott come out fighting over the economy
• Piping Shrike: Caught in Howard’s ‘neoliberal trap’

Polls

• John Watson: Abbott needs to get out of the 50-50 zone to be sure

Murdoch

• Tim Dunlop: News flash – Tele doesn’t drive our national debate
• Neil Chenowith: Murdoch’s News Corp empire turns on itself
• Jonathan Holmes: Knives out for Rudd, but what’s in it for Rupert?
• Barrie Cassidy: If Murdoch gets his way, it’s not because of him

Weekly election wrap

• Monica Attard: Week #1 – How was it for you?
• Bernard Keane: Week 1: atavism, ATMs and voodoo bullshit
• Laura Tingle: All quiet on the election campaign front

No Crap App: w/b 24 June 2013

Photo: Mike Bowers

Julia Gillard

• Katharine Murphy: Julia Gillard – where did it all go wrong?
• Shaun Carney: The political tragedy of Julia Gillard
• Eva Cox: Gillard’s downfall – was sexism to blame?
• Piping Shrike: An incomplete revolution
• Greg Jericho: Along with voters, Labor lost the moral high ground

Kevin Rudd

• Ben Eltham: Rudd’s dirty game pays off
• Barrie Cassidy: Election a referendum on Labor, and Rudd
• David Marr: Kevin Rudd – A man for the party but not a party man
• Laura Tingle: Can Kevin Rudd pout Labor back together again?
• Dennis Atkins: Rudd returns as PM but his real test is still to come
• Laurie Oakes: Party shake-up top of Rudd’s agenda
• Peter Hartcher: We need to talk about Kevin
• Tad Tietze: Kevin Rudd, anti-politics and the ends of Laborism
• Jonathan Green: Rudd wins spill, but will Labor finally lead?

Rudd v Abbott

• Waleed Aly: Fresh fire but using Gillard’s ammo
• Tim Dunlop: Can Kevin Rudd deliver a genuine contest of ideas?
• Fleur Anderson: Taken off cruise control
• Mark Kenny & David Wroe: Same old rabble or game-changer?

Policies!

• Greg Jericho: Talk the austerity talk, just don’t walk the walk

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No Crap App: w/b 27 Aug 2012

The week that was…

It was a HUGE week politically, jammed chock-full with political trade-offs, policy announcements and tragic deaths. The previous week’s political fascination with Tony Abbott’s truthiness had mostly passed, with questions now being raised over the challenge of either party delivering costly new policies when tax receipts are falling.

There were some interesting pieces on how the leaders are faring, quite a bit of soul searching on our continued presence in Afghanistan, and an insightful piece on the scrapping of the floor price for carbon. The additional good reads ponder the purpose of SBS’s Go Back to Where You Came From, feature Shaun Carney’s last piece as he departs the good ship Fairfax, and provide a profile of Greens’ leader Christine Milne.

P.S. When Financial Review articles are not behind the paywall, I have marked them as [free].

How will they/we pay for it?

• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: No avoiding the new tax reality
• David Uren: Denial about deficit as reckless spending rolls on
• Laura Tingle [free]: Game of gazillions – IOU budgets as clouds gather
• Michelle Grattan: A toothy smile behind Labor’s dental plan
• Peter van Onselen: PM’s policy rush leaves Abbott a fiscal headache

Spotlight on the leaders

• Simon Benson: Will Abbott run out of ammo?
• Shaun Carney: Tough at the top, on both sides
• Geoff Kitney [free]: Echoes of Howard with character key for Gillard

The war

• Laurie Oakes: The complex web of unholy alliances
• Dennis Atkins: Mission with not a lot to gain
• Aaron Fernandes: Afghan questions answered in blood
• Tony Walker [free]: Heading into a dead end on Afghanistan

Carbon price

• Ben Eltham: Combet’s calculated risk on carbon

Other important reads

• Jonathan Green: Holding a mirror to a country divided
• Shaun Carney [final column]: Down and out? Leaks that fed Labor’s sinking feeling
• Michael Gordon: Green at heart

Sunday addition

• Sally Neighbour: How we lost the war
• John van Tiggelen: Bill Shorten – Watch this space

 

No Crap App: w/b 13 Aug 2012

Pope, Canberra Times 15 Aug 2012

The week that was…

As reflected in the links below, this week was dominated by the asylum seeker issue.

Some attention was also given to Abbott’s tendency to play fast and loose with the facts.

There was also a number of interesting think-pieces, which I’ve collected for you to enjoy and ponder.

Asylum seekers

• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Back to the start on asylum seekers
• Bernard Keane: The moral calculus of exemplary detention
• Annabel Crabb: Asylum debate – same question, different argument
• Peter Lewis: Our border fears speak to bigger issues
• Michelle Grattan: Dangerous days, for refugees and the government
• Laura Tingle: Schools policy, Labor seeks a breath of fresh air
• Bronwyn Hinz: Hard-headed politics – ask the right experts and you’ll get the answers you want
• Elizabeth Humphrys: Trapped by orthodoxy – The Greens and the myths of the market 
• Paul Kelly: All roads lead to turning back boats
• Peter van Onselen: Let’s dispel a few myths
• Shaun Carney: Puff of victory after smoke and mirrors effort on boats

Abbott

• Barrie Cassidy: A rare challenge to Abbott’s free pass

Food for thought

• Jonathan Green: Australian Institute of Thought
• Tony Wright: Truly selfless don’t need to tell the world
• George Megalogenis: How the language of shock jocks came to drive political debate
• Laurie Oakes: Angus Houston not John Howard for Governor-General
• Sam Encel: The Conservatism you don’t know
• Geoff Kitney (free): A good week for John Howard’s Australia