No Crap App: w/b 4 May 2015

Knight, Herald Sun

Budget

• Andrew Probyn: Treasurer Joe Hockey facing his crunch time
• Dennis Atkins: Abbott Government’s future rests on its crucial second Budget
• Michael Gordon: Tony Abbott gambles on the fairness factor
• David Crowe: Politics of distortion is a poor match for fair-minded debate
• Lenore Taylor: Coalition’s unwillingness to tax means commitment to fairness won’t last
• Ross Gittins: The budget circus isn’t the whole show
• Peter Martin: Expect a do-nothing budget that will cost us time
• Jonathan Green: Budget will be a true test of authenticity

Labor

• Troy Bramston: ‘Consultation draft’ platform shows Labor is anchored in the past

Greens

• Sophie Morris: Milne, Di Natale and Greens’ deliberate leadership coup
• Greg Jericho: How Di Natale hopes to grow the Greens vote
• Tad Tietze: The Greens after Milne: Running out of options?

Other thinkiness

• Malcolm Farnsworth: History doesn’t repeat

By request, my articles for the week

• Political leaks leave voters in the dark
• Egalitarianism is under threat?
• Was Christine Milne pushed or did she jump?
• Scott Morrison steals the show

No Crap App: w/b 26 Jan 2015

Letch, SMH 30 Jan 2015

Abbott

• Gabrielle Chan: Dangerous days for Tony Abbott as ‘very, very, very stupid’ decision riles backers
• Niki Savva: Government still in the wilderness
• Mark Kenny: Abbott’s choice: change or face the axe
• Laura Tingle: Tony Abbott’s sick sounding rhetoric
• Jonathan Green: We’ve allowed the ‘ridicule’ rot to set in
• Greg Jericho: No, Peta Credlin isn’t to blame for this mess
• Tony Walker: Vision absent in Abbott’s folie de grandeur
• Scott Bowman: We must overcome out leadership change addiction

Queensland election

• Greg Jericho: Queensland election a fascinating study in cost of austerity politics
• Todd Winther: 10 things to watch on and after election night in Queensland
• William Bowe What happened
• Michael Gordon: Tony Abbott becoming Liberal wrecking ball
• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott is making exactly the same mistakes Campbell Newman did
• Tad Tietze: Zombie social democracy in shock landslide win

Other thinkiness

• Monica Attard: Islamic State. Is weeping all we can do?
• Mark Skulley: Protecting workers relies on sorting IR fact from fiction
• Ross Gittins: Little action on social issues sell us all short
• Wendy Harmer: Who votes what in the land of OZ?
• Peter Brent: Let’s talk about the opposition
• Collette Snoden: No, Tony Abbott, you can’t dismiss social media as ‘electronic graffiti’

By request, my posts for the week

• Abbott navigates his crucial ‘year of reform’
• Abbott: bad as Gillard, mad as Rudd?
• Forces massing against Abbott and his minder

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 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

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?