No Crap App: w/b 5 Jan 2015

Pope, Canb Times, 5 Jan 2015

Je suis Charlie

• Monica Attard: Charlie Hebdo drew critics, fans as European immigration held up to scrutiny
• Sarah joseph: Charlie Hebdo: the pen must defy the sword, Islamic or not
• Helen Razer: Je ne suis pas Charlie

Qld Votes

• Lenore Taylor: Campbell Newman’s election pitch is a test run for Tony Abbott
• Michael Gordon: Even in absentia, Tony Abbott a factor in Queensland poll
• Norman Abjorensen: State elections fought on issues, not Abbott

Abbott’s woes

• Marius Benson: Can Abbott go from ‘ragged’ to riches in 2015?
• Jack Waterford: Prime Minister Tony Abbott needs an issue, or an idea

GST

• David Crowe: States must face facts about GST

Other thinkiness

• Kath Kenny: Gen X in power. Spot the difference.
• Waleed Aly: Plane crashes, terrorism, random violence – new realities amid our relative security

By request, my posts for the week (or so)

• Will 2015 see the rise or fall of the crossbenchers?
• Abbott has six months to get it right
• Iraq: troops stay, media kept out
• Why the PM’s mission was a PR failure

No Crap App: w/b 8 Dec 2014

Pope, Canb Times, 10 Dec 2014

Credlin free zone

• Dennis Atkins: The year of riding dangerously
• Steven Scott: Treasurer Joe Hockey’s gaffes and poor salesmanship have to end as he prepares for his Budget update
• Lenore Taylor: Coalition’s own messages are neither coherent nor convincing
• Greg Jericho: Electorate left seeing red, but will the Government take off rose-coloured glasses?
• Waleed Aly: Nothing can wipe the smile off this mug
• Paul Kelly (with minimal Credlin): Abbott’s barnacle removal essential to Liberal reboot
• Tim Dunlop: Tony Abbott is not the problem
• Jonathan Green: As the year unwinds, the Government unravels
• Piping Shrike: Positioning
• Tony Walker: The problem stalking Australia’s halls of economic power
• Peter Brent: Bragging rights
• Gabrielle Chan: A Country Round: should the Nationals rethink their place in the Coalition

What to do about Peta (not Peter)

• Lenore Taylor: By fighting so hard for the PM, Peta Credlin has put Abbott in a corner
• Anne Summers: For Peta Credlin, the gender card has been dealt again
• Laura Tingle: The curse of Rudd descends onto Abbott’s office
• Peter van Onselen: Peta Credlin has become the story and that’s bad news for Tony Abbott
• Dennis Shanahan: Peta Credlin and Joe Hockey not to be replaced
• David Crowe (more ministry than Credlin): Ring the political changes

Asylum seekers

• Paul Syvret: Abbott Government’s legislation makes Australia a rogue state regarding international law and human rights
• Michael Gordon: Scott Morrison’s headlock politics rule

Political profiles

• Jane Cadzow: Eyes on the prize: would-be PM Bill Shorten
• John van Tiggelen: Sense and Sensibility: Tanya Plibersek plays it cool
• Sophie Morris: David Morrison breaking the brass ceiling in the ADF

Other thinkiness

• Liz Humphrys & Tad Tietze: Abolishing the present state of things

By request, my posts for the week

• Abbott must heed past mistakes, not repeat them
• Please not childcare too
• Defence of Credlin a career-limiting move?
• Tribute to a Labor warrior

No Crap App: w/b 24 Nov 2014

Letch, SMH 28 Nov 2014

Abbott’s woes

• Waleed Aly: Coalition marooned in a sea of troubles
• Jack Waterford: Captain Catholic versus President Presbyterian
• Steven Scott: Clearing barnacles is easier said than done
• Phil Coorey: Dissent, disarray strike Tony Abbott’s government
• Phil Coorey:Tony Abbott’s big problem: he doesn’t really get AFL
• Laura Tingle: PM’s credibility comes under assault
• Laura Tingle: Just own up and say that budgets are really hard
• Niki Savva: Happy fifth anniversary for Tony Abbott, but there’s no time to relax
• Phil Hudson: Tony Abbott needs Ricky Muir-like candour to win back voters’ faith
• Paul Kelly: Tony Abbott can win the core argument by cleaning the slate on promises
• Peter Browne: Gap year

Other thinkiness

• Tim Dunlop: When elected independents are seen as interlopers
• Peter Brent: What the Senate is telling us about big party politics

By request, my posts for the week

• Coalition needs a better budget, not better PR
• ABC cuts – controlling the bleeding
• Jacqui Lambie has drawn out Clive Palmer’s bullying and diminished his power
• Jacqui Lambie – Going it alone (best viewed on iPad or tablet)

 

 

No Crap App: w/b 4 Aug 2014

Rowe, AFR 7 Aug 2014

Coalition/Abbott

• Lenore Taylor: Everyone has a piece of advice for Tony Abbott 
• Jack Waterford: No short cuts with political leadership
• Dennis Shanahan: Fears of Rudd-era dysfunction after government’s horror week
• Paul Kelly: Abbott governs but fails to persuade

Counter-terrorism

• Peter Hartcher: Tony Abbott struggles to transcend the role of tribal chief
• Michael Gordon: Dog days for team Abbott

Racial Discrimination Act

• Waleed Aly: Abbott’s 18C puzzle: linking terror and free speech raises interesting political questions
• Laura Tingle: Liberal Party cuts 18C loose rather than get dragged under
• Gay Alcorn: Racial vilification laws: checkmate for Andrew Bolt – and George Brandis’s ego
• Laurie Oakes: Coalition’s geese in a real flap

Political profiles

• Sophie Morris: George Brandis’ political crusades win him no fans
• Laura Tingle: Treasurer Joe Hockey struggles to build a bankable image
• Jamie Walker: Why Christopher Pyne is a man in a hurry

Other thinkiness

• Monica Attard: Why the UN is so hopeless
• Peter Brent: If an election had be held on the weekend

And my posts for the week:

• Letting a good PPL be buried in the name of fairness
• A lie a day keeps the … oh who cares?
• Sorry you can’t be a bigot after all
• The hard-right’s poster boy

No Crap App: w/b 28 Jul 2014

Cathy Wilcox, 28 Jul 2014

MH17

• Ben Eltham: All Australian eyes on Ukraine, but what’s our goal again?
• Jim Middleton: Military victory trumps MH17 investigation for Kiev
• Piping Shrike: Disaster politics
• Martin McKenzie-Murray: Relations in the firing line in wake of MH17

Budget

• Phil Coorey: Joe Hockey on a mission to sell budget to MPs 
• Peter Hartcher: Tony Abbott’s Coalition making the same mistakes as Labor
• Cade Lucas: Abbott, Abetz, Tasmania and the logic that wasn’t
• Greg Jericho: Sorting fact from fiction in dole policy
• Michael Cooney: Don’t be distracted: it’s all about the budget
• Troy Henderson: Trust me (I hate you)

ALP

• Laura Tingle: Shorten coy on party reform
• Brett Evans: The winter of Senator Faulkner’s discontent

Gaza

• Tony Walker: Israel’s inconvenient truth – Hamas must be dealt with
• Tim Robertson: Palestine and the Saturday paper
• Aicha Marhfour: Hashtags won’t save Palestine in war of words and clicks
• Waleed Aly: MH17, Gaza and the value of human life
• Lin Taylor: Compassion fatigue: how much is too much bad news

Palmer

• Laurie Oakes: Clive Palmer’s not big on comity as his latest push for an inquiry shows
• Sophie Morris: Nationals urge tougher tactics as Clive Palmer plays the centre

Media

• Jonathan Holes: Press Council’s new rules makes writers face facts

Other thinkiness

• Tim Dunlop: Feeding our egalitarian nation to the sharks
• Jonathan Green: The slick, glib world of tabloid politics

And my posts for the week

• The vexed issue called ‘leadership’
• Unions – 1, Shorten – 0
• In praise of public art
• Is Julie Bishop Australia’s most underrated politician?