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 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 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: 2 Feb 2015

This week’s No Crap App is incomplete due to the sheer volume of pieces appearing on the battle for the Liberal leadership. Please keep checking in for updates.

Liberal leadership (Sunday additions)

• Laura Tingle: Tony Abbott spins out of control
• Katharine Murphy: How the Liberal Party machine swallowed the real Tony Abbott alive
• Lenore Taylor: Whether he survives the leadership spill or not, Tony Abbott’s time is up

Liberal leadership

• David Crowe: Even without candidates, Coalition spill coming
• Barrie Cassidy: The public still wants an end to the chaos
• Malcolm Farnsworth: Motion to spill: it’s survival time for Tony Abbott
• Niki Savva: Time running out for damaged PM
• Michael Gordon: Waiting for Malcolm
• Sophie Morris: Malcolm Turnbull awaits the leadership
• Paul Kelly: A double upheaval in a blow to the body politic
• Laura Tingle: Spill caused by division between party room and electorate
• Jonathan Green: Could a spill reset out fractured political cycle?

Labor

• Troy Bramston: Useful lesson for Labor in conservative critiques of the Coalition

Other thinkiness

• Richard Mulgan: Martin Parkinson’s fall is a lesson for departmental secretaries

By request, my posts for the week

• Without change, Abbott’s a dead man walking
• Abbott: Strong or just plain stubborn?
• Trigger happy chatter does not make a spill

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?