No Crap App: w/b 18 May 2015

Rowe, AFR 23 May 2015

Budget

• Alan Kohler: Modern budgets are exercises in spin – and this year was no exception
• Greg Jericho: If you’re going to compare levels of income and welfare, do it fairly
• Phil Coorey: Consistency, not whiplash, is key to political success
• Ross Gittins: Dishonest to resist curbs on spending and oppose higher taxes
• Lenore Taylor: Belt up, fellow Australians: we’re in for another Big Stupid tax debate

Asylum seekers

• Daniel Flitton: Foreign policy compromised by asylum seeker solution

Abbott

• Mark Kenny: Abbott’s policy flip-flopping is a bit of a worry

Labor

• David Crowe: Bill Shorten’s weapons losing firepower

Political profiles

• Cameron Atfield: New Senator Joanna Lindgren ‘no’ on same-sex marriage

Other

• Alan Ramsey: The Faulkner papers a rich treasure trove for the National Archives
• Tim Dunlop: Is democracy rapidly making way for oligarchy?

By request, my posts for the week

• An equity war could stifle the post-budget glow
• Throw-away lines that backfired

No Crap App: w/b 20 Apr 2015

Letch, SMH 24 Apr 2015

Budget

• David Crowe: Budget a problem that no-one wants to fix
• Mark Kenny: Hockey and Abbott pay the iron price as Labor circles
• Mike Steketee: From welfare to unfair: who budget savings rate
• Lenore Taylor: Abbott government endures four stages of budget grief, but ‘reform’ eludes it

Labor

• Greg Jericho: When “fairness” doesn’t cut it, ALP surprises with policy

Other thinkiness

• Bernard Keane: Senate reform and the outsourcing of democracy
• Sarah Malik: Stop the dog whistling on radicalisation, Minister
• Dennis Atkins: Our stop-the-boats stance will not work in Europe’s migration crisis
• Tim Dunlop: Tony Abbott and the normalisation of bad politics

By request, my posts for the week

• Business lobby is full of false bravado
• Put a leash on dog-whistling Tony Abbott
• The best and the worst – this week in politics

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No Crap App: w/b 6 Apr 2015

Lobbecke, Aust 11 Apr 2015

• David Crowe: Fairness fundamental to Coalition’s budget fightback
• Tim Dunlop: The myth of political bipartisanship
• Phil Coorey: Irritation between government and business breaks the surface
• Barry Jones: A challenged democracy: wicked problems and political failures
• Greg Jericho: Time to renew the political thinking on renewable energy

By request, my post for this week:

• Labor factions still rule, and women pay the price

No Crap App: w/b 23 Mar 2015

Pope, Canb Times 28 Mar 2015

Budget

• Greg Jericho: From budget emergency to budget boredom
• Jonathan Green: Maybe we need to subcontract the budget process

 Leadership

• Phil Coorey: Government full of issues that dare not speak their name

Labor

• Laura Tingle: Bill Shorten who? Tony Abbott is wrestling with himself

Other thinkiness

• Tom Burton: Benching talent brings worst of Washminster
• Pat Garcia: One term to rule them, one term to reform them
• Tim Dunlop: Further proof that distribution, not content, is king
• Mark Skulley: Hey politicians. We want good policy, not partisanship

By request, my posts for the week

• Baird and the budget to decide Abbott’s fate
• Abbott’s alternate reality

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