No Crap App: w/b 11 May 2015

Lobbecke, Aust 12 May 2015

Budget

• Ross Gittins: Small measures and a media circus
• Michael Pascoe: The Law of Unintended Consequences hits Happy Joe
• Tim Colebatch: The budget: mostly normal, partly unreal
• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott’s budget promises and Labor’s reply are both about expediency
• Laura Tingle: Tony Abbott sharpens his election tools
• Paul Kelly: Abbott-Shorten conflicts clear after 2015 budget
• James Massola: Bringing home the bacon, saving the base
• Dennis Atkins: Budget shows Tony Abbott’s capacity to fight back should never be underestimated
• Jonathan Green: We’ve fallen through the ideological looking glass
• Ben Eltham: George Brandis’ extraordinary raid of the Australia Council

PPL

• David Crowe: Foot still dangerously close to mouth
• Andrew Probyn: Confessions of a double-dipping rorter
• Peter Martin: Could the Coalition have been any dumber?

Labor

• Laurie Oakes: Bill Shorten must act like a leader
• Troy Bramston: Lessons in British election for Shorten and ALP

And also…

• Katharine Murphy: Australian budget week: five things we learned

By request, my posts for the week

• Government rolls dice on Labor-lite budget
• Promising fairness, delivering incompetence
• Budget week bun fight

 

No Crap App: w/b 13 Apr 2015

Budget

• Lenore Taylor: Who will lose most from the 2015 budget (apart from the government)?
• Laura Tingle: Surfing the budget’s ebbs and flows
• Phil Coorey: Some brutal budget honesty might go a long way
• Peter Martin: Why Hockey will have to clean up Costello’s superannuation mess
• Tom Burton: Why Dr Karl did Treasury a big favour

COAG/GST

• Laurie Oakes: Prime Minister Tony Abbott draws no battlelines
• Terry Barnes: COAG: sound and fury, signifying not very much
• Tim Colebatch: The true story of Western Australia and the GST

Anzac

• Jonathan Green: Gallipoli 2015: Lest we forget to turn a buck
• Helen Razer: Woolworths’ Anzac campaign perfectly appropriate to what Gallipoli has become

Other thinkiness

• Mike Steketee: Can the Greens keep the bastards honest?
• Malcolm Farnsworth: Peering through

By request, my posts for the week

• New polls but the same old pain for Abbott
• Politics’ winners and losers

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No Crap App: w/b 23 Feb 2015

Photo: Ellinghausen, SMH 27 Feb 2015

Liberal leadership (in roughly chronological order)

• William Bowe: Poll Bludger: dead-cat bounce for Tony, with Malcolm lurking in the wings
• Peter Hartcher: Tony Abbott clutching at straws in attempt to protect remaining support base
• Niki Savva: Peta Credlin’s toxic lecture to ‘gossips’
• Peter van Onselen: Throwing the media dogs a daily bone, it’s the government way
• David Crowe: Liberals hoping to dump Abbott find their Macbeth is a little Dusty
• Peter Hartcher: Baird effect v Abbott effect: A precarious balance
• Lenore Taylor: Paranoia grips Liberals as self-defeating Abbott lurches from one disaster to the next
• Laura Tingle: Tony Abbott in a swamp along with reform
• Sophie Morris: Plotting the anti-Tony Abbott forces
• Tony Walker: Abbott ignored all the key lessons
• Paul Kelly: Abbott faces leadership spill again, but Turnbull wants to wait

Triggs

• Jonathan Green: The speech Abbott could have made about Triggs
• Annabel Crabb: Triggs takes the punches that should be hitting Labor

Other thinkiness

• Dennis Atkins: Social Services Minister Scott Morrison is transforming himself but can a leopard really change its spots?
• Greg Jericho: Pro tip to the government – don’t forget to use your incumbency
• Tim Dunlop: Is media objectivity an outdated model?
• Tracey Spicer: Crying bias a tired “old media” story
• Elizabeth Humphrys: Anti-politics and the illusions of neoliberalism
• Tim Colebatch: Polls and preferences: the new challenge for election watchers

By request, my posts for the week

•  So much for a “more consultative” PM
• Can Abbott survive his “war on terror”?
• Abbott’s flagging fortunes on full, proud display
• Scott Morrison a beacon of hope and danger for PM

No Crap App: w/b 1 Dec 2014

Lobbecke, The Australian 6 Dec 2014

Abbott’s woes

• Jack Waterford: Tony Abbott should be looking to the message, rather than the messenger
• David Crowe: Tony Abbott must start listening
• Dennis Atkins: Why Tony Abbott’s government is in deep trouble
• Dennis Shanahan: Cruising in opposition, adrift in government
• Jonathan Green: Is history repeating itself already for Tony Abbott?
• Michael Gordon: Prime Minister Tony Abbott is feeling the heat after a ‘ragged’ year
• Lenore Taylor: The Coalition’s own messages are neither coherent nor convincing

Budget

• Tim Colebatch: More reasons why the Abbott budget is so hard to sell
• Jane Gilmore: CSIRO cuts: be very alarmed

Victorian election

• Ben Eltham: Victoria’s Swing To The Left: Eltham’s Analysis Of Saturday’s Result
• Stephen Mills: Rules for Radicals comes to Carrum
• Wendy Harmer: “You should have seen this coming, guys.”

End-of-year thinkiness

• Peter Browne: Gap year
• Lenore Taylor: Three things a good government would do
• Katharine Murphy: Five things we’ve learned from the year in politics
• Greg Jericho: ‘Year of delivery’ draws to a close, but are voters buying it?

Other crunchy brain food

• Greg Jericho: Don’t use Hughes’ death to beat your own drum
• Monica Attard: Julie Bishop goes nuclear

By request, my posts for the week

• Chief of staff job too big for one person
• Sorry Clive, honeymoon’s over
• Are pollies kids fair game in political journalism?
• Here’s your lump of coal. Merry Xmas.
• Class of 2014

No Crap App: fortnight beginning 2 Sept 2013

PolitiRowe, AFR 10 Sep 2013

Political debate

• Jane Gilmore: The fundamentals of public debate

Labor

• Tim Colebatch: The hoodoo that stands between Bill Shorten and the prime ministership
• Peter Hartcher: Abbott rules … OK?
• Paul Kelly: ALP in for bumpy ride as it sorts out leadership and carbon policy
• Jonathan Green: After three years of campaigning, how about a rest….

Coalition

• Laura Tingle: Prime Minister in waiting
• Gay Alcorn: Culture wars need to be consigned to history
• Katharine Murphy: Coalition’s calm as it takes power is a calculated move

Greens/Left

• Tad Tietze: The Left, the Greens and the crisis
• Antony Loewenstein: Where to now for the Australian Left?

Senate

• Marcus Priest: Glenn Druery – the vote broker who made the new Senate
• Tim Colebatch: A barnyard of crossbenchers
• Antony Green: Senate preference deals put the joke on us
• George Williams: Micro parties could party on if Abbott dissolves the problem

Election campaign and final result

• Piping Shrike: Relief
• Edwina Throsby: The undecideds – do swinging voters know enough?
• Tim Dunlop: Shouting us down
• Sean Rintel: FAIL – Why memes were not the key to Election 2013
• Greg Jericho: In (qualified) praise of the press gallery
• Ben Eltham: Look at Tony now

Before the poll

• Piping Shrike: An incomplete revolution – an update