No Crap App: w/b 22 Sep 2014

Clement, AFR, 26 Sep 2014

Gillard

• Katharine Murphy: Julia Gillard’s memoir is insightful, unflinching and revealing
• David Crowe: Yes Julia, we all made mistakes …
• Paul Kelly: A veil over Labor’s failure and a gloss on Gillard’s greatest hit
• Barrie Cassidy: There’s still life in the Rudd-Gillard stoush

War, terror, freedom

• Katharine Murphy: The acid test: Australian journalists must ask what agenda they serve
• Jonathan Green: Our disconcerting certainty in battling terrorism
• Monica Attard: New laws: Keeping us in peak fear
• Laura Tingle: Voters give leeway to get tough on terrorism
• Phil Coorey: Abbott shines a ‘light on the hill’ in UN address
• Mike Steketee: Abbott faces the reality of multicultural Australia

G20

• Simon Benson: There are high stakes and plenty of snags

Abbott

• Peter Brent: The Abbott conundrum

Shorten

• John Quiggin: Missing in action? Bill Shorten’s “small target” strategy is his only option
• Phil Hudson: Negative focus on Abbott wont’t suffice

AFR Power Feature

• Geoff Kitney: Power in Australia 2014
• Laura Tingle: Can good policy be good politics?
• Tony Walker: Clive Palmer creating disorder in the House

And my posts for the week

• Shorten’s timely transition from ‘no’ to ‘me too’
• The terror bounce
• Trust me (best viewed on a tablet or iPad)

No Crap App: w/b 21 Apr 2014

Pope, Canb Times 25 Apr 2014

The parties

• Norman Abjorensen: More than a fraction too much faction
• Tad Tietze: After Barry’s fall: Anti-politics, authority and corruption
• Piping Shrike: The ties that bind
• Troy Bramston: New dawn, but is ALP awake to the truth?
• Sophie Morris: Inside Bill Shorten’s party war room
• Peter Brent: The most important reform
• Laura Tingle: Shorten’s reform-or-perish pitch
• Phil Coorey: PM confronts the size of his Palmer problem

The policies

• El Gibbs: Valuing the work of care
• Greg Jericho: Australia has it pretty damn good – so why aren’t we cheering?
• Ben Eltham: Air superiority, but at what cost?
• Gay Alcorn: Racial vilification laws: maybe we don’t need them

The budget

• Peter Martin: Look the other way for Treasurer Joe Hockey’s budget crisis
• Greg Jericho: Coalition banks on blind faith in budget ‘fix’
• Chris Berg: Election promises are there for the breaking
• Dennis Atkins: Treasurer Joe Hockey’s hard sell on his tough first Budget
• Simon Benson: Joe Hockey’s pension bomb
• Peter van Onselen: A touch of Swan in the Hockey game

Wran

• Rodney Cavalier: Neville’s life lived in good measure
• Wendy Bacon: Wran, the Balmain Boy gone bad

Anzac Day

• Jonathan Green: Why must a war define us?
• Fatima Measham: The problem with being defined by war

Political profiles

• Tom Switzer: Reading Burke in Sydney: Tony Abbott’s Sensible Conservatism

Other thinkiness

• Katharine Murphy: We can handle the truth – give us the insights, the nitty-gritty

And my posts for the week:

• Shine a light on shady lobbying
• ALP: surveying the stinking carcass

 

No Crap App: w/b 24 Mar 2014

 

Pope, Canberra Times, 27 Mar 2014

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Tony Abbott

• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott is sacrificing his significant majority by sweating the small stuff
• Katharine Murphy: Just who is Tony Abbott, six months after winning election?
• Dennis Shanahan: Election promises still need to be explained to public
• Peter van Onselen: Abbott trying to turn back the tide

Bill Shorten

• Simon Benson: Bill Shorten takes aim

Madam Speaker

• Gabrielle Chan: Bronwyn Bishop has always suggested she would paint the speaker’s chair blue
• Matthew Knott and Jonathan Swan: Labor remains determined to unseat Bronwyn Bishop

Racial Discrimination

• Mark Cohen: Why Australia’s race discrimination laws need changing
• Gay Alcorn: Locked in a war of words to define free speech
• Ben Eltham: How Bolt sets the government’s agenda
• Siv Parker: Repealing the race hate laws isn’t ‘freedom’ to Indigenous people
• Ed Butler: In Australia, the word ‘racist’ has lost all its meaning
• Vic Alhadeff: The priority should be keeping bigotry at bay

WA Senate election

• Niki Savva: Influence is Sir Clive’s coin of the realm

Knights and Dames

• Tony Walker: Nothing like a dame
• Barrie Cassidy: Forget the budget – let’s talk knights and dames

Paul Howes

• Mark Kenny: Forget the conspiracies, Paul Howes is just burnt out
• Ben Eltham: Resignation of a faceless man
• Aaron Patrick: Why I’m a media tart

Econofacts

• Greg Jericho: Why are people’s views of inflation at odds with the economic reality?
• Ross Gittins: Battlers exposed again as budget crunch nears

Political profile

• Sophie Morris: Barry O’Sullivan replaces Barnaby Joyce in the Senate

Other thinkiness

• John Warhurst: Centrist Liberals need stronger voice
• Tim Dunlop: Rage against the mainstream
• Jonathan Green: Culture wars distract from the Abbott non-agenda
• Peter Brent: How much for victory?
• Nick Osbaldiston: Competing for your attention: for all the cows…

And if you missed my pieces for the week:

• ‘Weakling’ Labor pulls its punches
• “We was robbed”
• Shorten spooks conservatives

No Crap App: w/b 1 July 2013

Lobbecke, Aust 4 Jul 2013

Rudd 2.0

• Piping Shrike: The Rudd effect
• Simon Jackman: Will the love for Kevin Rudd last beyond the honeymoon?
• Katharine Murphy: Kevin Rudd takes on the case of the missing prime minister
• Mark Latham: Rudd’s redux raised on ruins
• Jonathan Green: A strange sense of normalcy returns to politics
• Laura Tingle: Chris Bowen must make his mark
• Malcolm Farr: We’re at risk of a debate that’s Kevin v Kevin
• Laurie Oakes: Finally we have a contest
• Paul Kelly: Swan’s budget leaves Rudd little room to move

Reform of NSW Labor

• Laura Tingle & Gemma Daley: Rudd intervenes in NSW Labor
• Peter Hartcher: Kevin Rudd has more to do on Labor Party reform
• Peter van Onselen: Reforming Labor a clever move though resistance inevitable
• Simon Benson: Rudd’s revenge on NSW Right
• Kate McClymont: Dirty deals done dirt cheap

Legacies

• Greg Jericho: Swan’s good economics blurred by bad politics
• Ben Eltham: Gillard’s place in the Labor pantheon

Abbott

• Geoff Kitney: Abbott needs to regroup in the wake of the ‘Rudd Effect’

No Crap App: w/b 1 Apr 2013

Abbott and the Coalition

• Laura Tingle: Sense without sensibility on budget morass
• Paul Kelly: New-look Tony – Do you believe him?
• John Warhurst: Simplistic analysis of Abbott off mark
• Jack Waterford: Beware the hungry sharks

Gillard and Labor

• Simon Benson: Labor’s ghosts of 1975 haunt this death-wish government
• Jack Waterford: Vultures circle Labor’s wagons

Superannuation

• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Apparently everyone lives on struggle street now 
• Laurie Oakes: ALP finally settles this super silliness
• Matt Cowgill: On tax expenditures

Political commentary

• Jonathan Green: Insight isn’t the main game in 24/7 punditry