No Crap App: 6 Jul 2015

Rowe, AFR 8 Jul 2015

• Gay Alcorn: Look past Bill Shorten – this was an interrogation of our political system
• Tony Walker: Bill Shorten and Labor’s leadership dilemma
• Katharine Murphy: Bill Shorten at the royal commission: no killer blow, but now for the aftermath
• Niki Savva: Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten in bad odour with electorate
• Laura Tingle: Ministers’ comments show an unhappy government
• Katharine Murphy: Tony Abbott’s pointless whims uncover those who refuse to minister to him
• Dennis Atkins: The royal commission has exposed systemic greed and personal gain in trade unions

By request, my posts for the week

• Liberal right is all bark, no bite on same-sex marriage
• Richard Di Natale’s big gamble with the Greens
• Bill Shorten feels the slow burn of royal commission’s interrogation
• Will the real Bill Shorten please stand up
• Pollies escape scrutiny as Shorten is grilled

 

No Crap App: w/b 27 Apr 2015

Pope, Canb Times 1 May 2015

Bali 9 executions

• Greg Jericho: Indonesia, Australia and the Bali 9 – when symbolism becomes substance
• Amy Maguire: Hard line on refugees undermines principled opposition to execution
• Tony Walker: Challenge is to restore balance with Jakarta
• Piping Shrike: The New Regionalism – another update

Marriage equality

• Royce Millar & Ben Schneiders: Why is the union that represents supermarket workers stopping gay marriage?

Recognition

• Paul Kelly: Polarising forces threaten to derail bid for indigenous recognition

Other thinkiness

• Malcolm Farnsworth: The rush of events, the ballast of history
• Jonathan Green: We’ve nothing to fear but our sense of certainty
• George Megalogenis: History repeats
• Jane Gilmore: The “One in Three” claim about male domestic violence is a myth

By request, my articles for the week

• Greens become the very thing they rebelled against
• The best of times, the worst of times
• Piece by piece, Malcolm Turnbull is selling his soul

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No Crap App: w/b 2 Mar 2015

Abbott

• Geoff Kitney: Leadership threat continues to hang over Abbott
• Niki Savva: Bill Shorten’s lesson in leadership
• Jonathan Green: A chance to refocus politics went begging

Intergenerational report and the Budget

• Laura Tingle: Report is not so scary after all
• Peter Martin: Intergenerational Report: How Labor was framed
• Ross Gittins: Joe Hockey turns intergenerational report into a propaganda weapon
• Phil Coorey: Not retreating, just advancing in a different direction
• Lenore Taylor: Joe Hockey wants to talk, but real budget gain might mean swallowing a bitter pill
• Annabel Crabb: Budget ‘inoffensive’ hits Medicare co-payment

Iraq

• Tony Walker: Walking a slippery slope in Iraq

Political profile

• Fleur Anderson: Kelly O’Dwyer’s own looming intergenerational struggle

Other thinkiness

• Monica Attard: Has the hope of a ‘best possible Indonesia’ been killed?
• Greg Jericho: Bipartisanship and its limits

By request, my posts for the week

• Liberals should fear disunity, not Labor
• The reinvention of Scott Morrison

 

 

 

 

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 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