No Crap App: w/b 16 Mar 2015

Pope, Canberra Times 21 Mar 2015

Abbott/government/leadership

• Troy Bramston: Labor alert on Bishop threat
• Peter Brent: How easily we forget
• Michael Gordon: Tony Abbott’s unique despair
• Lenore Taylor: Tony Abbott launches ‘operation budget success’, but it’s just lipstick on a pig
• Lenore Taylor: Malcolm Fraser’s steady hand is in stark contrast to Tony Abbott’s chaotic manoeuvres
• Greg Jericho: Bad policy, woeful politics – can we fix it?
• David Crowe: Struggling Coalition may not be up to the task of governing
• Laura Tingle: Being governed by fools is not funny

Double dissolution

• Peter Brent: Would Tony do it?
• Phil Coorey: Desparate Abbott looks at the barnacles in the Senate

Labor

• Troy Bramston: Bill Shorten causes Labor dismay over lack of ideas

Malcolm Fraser

• John Howard: Malcolm Fraser was a true believer in liberalism
• Katharine Murphy: Malcolm Fraser had no Damascene conversion – he always championed human rights
• Laurie Oakes: Malcolm Fraser was a man of contrasts
• Margaret Simons: Malcolm Fraser’s long debate and being true to his ideals
• Paul Kelly: Malcolm Fraser: Achievements were less than his promise
• Cameron Stewart: Fraser: Farewell to a true liberal everyone could admire
• Tony Wright: The day Malcolm Fraser saved my career as a journalist

Other thinkiness

• Piping Shrike: Lifestyle
• Jonathan Green: The next great reform will be of politics itself
• Marija Taflaga: Small targets, small ambitions

By request, my posts for the week

• Turnbull’s new pitch as Mr Right 
• Get over Credlin and get some balls
• The myth of two Malcolm Frasers
• Malcolm Fraser: Australia’s last great ‘moderate’

 

No Crap App: f/b 29 Sep 2014

Pope, Canberra Times, 10 Oct 2014

Federal Budget

• Laura Tingle: Coalition budget battle plan falls apart

War on terror

• Phil Coorey: ‘Burqa’ ban and backflip have cost Abbott goodwill
• Tad Tietze: Who let all these Aussie-born Jihadists into the country?
• Greg Jericho: On Hush Puppies and dogs of war

Asylum seekers

• Mike Steketee: Refugee bill trashes our ‘good global citizen’ title

Senate inquiry into Campbell Newman

• Ben Eltham: The Coalition has itself to blame for Clive’s Queensland inquiry
• Anne Twomey: Can one Parliament investigate another?
• Jack Waterford: Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Clive Palmer play politics by different rules

Shorten

• Michael Gawenda: Hapless Shorten is trapped in a Rudd-Gillard timewarp
• Jonathan Green: The ‘Opposition’ is not living up to its name
• Barrie Cassidy: This is a watershed for Labor and the unions

Political profile

• Joanna Heath: Jacqui Lambie’s long climb to Parliament

Other thinkiness

• Paul Ransom: Dont blame me, I voted for …
• Tony Wright: Tony Abbott isn’t the first PM to be booed at the footy, and he won’t be the last
• Matthew Knott: The black dog roaming parliament
• Jonathan Green: Our reckless media fans the flames of disquiet
• Myles McGuire: Why I’m not a journalist
• Katharine Murphy: Faulkner’s call for trust drowned out by all the stunts
• Simon Copland: Against experts

 

No Crap App: w/b 3 Feb 2014

Rowe, AFR 31 Jan 2014

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Griffith by-election

• Peter Hartcher: A bicycle built for two

Electoral reform

• Antony Green: Piggybacking on the Labor and Liberal brands 

Industrial Relations

• Mark Davis: Paul Howes has roused the conspiracy theorists and stirred the possum
• Ben Eltham: Ambition comes first for Paul Howes
• Tony Wright: AWU chief Paul Howes knows which way the wind is blowing for unions
• Jacqueline Maley: Paul Howes: Tactics versus compact – The art of union warfare
• Greg Jericho: What wage explosion?

Industry assistance

• Lenore Taylor: Where is the government’s new line in the sand on industry handouts?
• Greg Jericho: Billions lost in tax concessions expose Australia’s hypocrisy over federal aid
• Michael Gawenda: The dubious virtue of Abbott’s revolution
• Jack Waterford: Joe Hockey holds fast for now
• Laura Tingle: The politics of the ‘age of entitlement’

War on the ABC

• Ben Eltham: The ABC is on sold ground
• Tony Walker: Controversy or cull for ABC
• Jack Waterford: Tony Abbott fighting ABC listeners as much as ABC journalists
• Jeff Sparrow: Lost at sea: why Abbott’s winning against the ABC

Economics

• Ross Gittins: Super ’70s flashback and today’s (economic) greatest hits

Profiles

• Michael Gordon: Tony Abbott … a man of fire and water
• Tom Allard & Deborah Snow: Why Treasurer Joe Hockey’s running the show

Other thinkiness

• Simon Copland: Our hypocrisy on democracy within political parties
• Elle Hardy: What’s wrong with the Australian right

No Crap App: w/b 22 April 2013

AFR 27 April 2013

• Phil Coorey [$]: Promises, promises – Coalition on the back foot
• Geoff Kitney [$]: Politicians dodge bullet they should bite
• Jennifer Hewett [$]: Gillard gets credit for school reform, Abbott pays for it
• Barrie Cassidy: Laying down the cudgels and debating policy
• Ben Eltham: Sing along to the budget blues
• Ross Gittins: Deficit realities finally dawn on all
• Marcus Priest [$]: Climate of chaos – the backroom deals that set a government’s agenda

Politics

• Dennis Atkins: Politicians who parrot party lines are simply pointless
• Rob Burgess: Abbott is the Coalition’s sacrificial lamb
• Geoff Kitney [$]: Nations get political leadership they deserve
• Tony Wright: Something has been broken at the heart of politics

Meanwhile…

• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Virtual manhunts and perils of unfiltered news
• Jonathan Green: News you can trust is worth the wait
• Tim Dunlop: The slippery slop of sponsored content
• Terry Moran: Digging ministerial advisors out of the accountability black hole

Longer read

• Sonya Voumard: The Canberra Correspondent

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No Crap App: w/b 25 Mar 2013

Rowe, 25 Mar 2013

• GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Labor could learn a thing or two about process
• Gay Alcorn: Gillard is not the only one with a credibility problem
• Laura Tingle: The political cliche you won’t hear from the PM
• Jonathan Green: Is the ALP too big to fail?
• Peter van Onselen: Libs’ mission – off with their heads
• Andrew Elder: A thousand deaths
• Jack Waterford: Abbott’s adjectival attack and Pollies pander to culture of complaint
• Matt Cowgill: Myths of the moocher class
• Paul Kelly: Labor’s tragedy – a lack of strategy to govern for all
• Tim Dunlop: Is this the end of the fair go?
• Michael Gordon: Who would be in your team of the (political) century?

Sunday Addition

Tony Wright: Abbott’s paper armour

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