May 19, 2013 by Drag0nista

No Crap App: w/b 13 May 2013

Pope, Canb Times 14 May 2013

Budget

GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Budget faces up to Australia’s economic reality

Geoff Kitney [$]: Abbott’s budget reply avoids traps

Laurie Oakes: A battleground set for one final fight

Barrie Cassidy: Abbott’s budget reply has the sweet smell of success

Dennis Atkins: Budget plays pivotal role in federal election

Jonathan Green: From space our politics is the read oddity

Government

Michael Gordon: Going down fighting

Chris Uhlmann: Labor finds itself without a homeland to defend

Opposition

Laura Tingle and Jacob Greber [$]: Tony Abbott and the expectation of imminent power

Paul Kelly: The great Abbott scare campaign begins

Federal election

Jackie Woods: A clear winner is what the voters want

Crunchy brain food

Jeff Sparrow: Why Andrew Bolt is not an imbecile

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May 12, 2013 by Drag0nista

No Crap App: 6 May 2011

Budget

Dennis Atkins: Gillard Government running out of time and money to woo back voters
Laura Tingle [$]: The first budget is the deepest; the last the saddest
Michael Gordon: Swan paddles hard to explain how forecasts were all at sea
Peter Hartcher: Challenge of an ageing nation

Economics

Peter Martin: It’s good to aspire, but know what you’re aspiring to
Ross Gittins: Deficit realities dawn on all
GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Warning – may contain graphic propaganda
Emma Alberici: Economic comparisons are useless without context

Coalition

Marius Benson: Unveiling the Abbott approach
Phillip Coorey [$]: No surprises, Abbott picks fight with unions
Michael Gordon: Industrial lite on the hill
Geoff Kitney [$]: Abbott must raise the bar on policy ambitions
Laurie Oakes: Hockey puts on his fiscal thinking hat

Media

Jonathan Green: Journalism tainted by conviction isn’t journalism

May 4, 2013 by Drag0nista

No Crap App: w/b 29 Apr 2013

Rowe, AFR 3 May 2013

Policy

Dominic Kelly: A big fat yes? Or will Tony Abbott leave the IPA crying at the altar?
Alan Kholer: Too many benefits are costing the country
GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Labor in a budget quagmire of its own making
Tim Colebatch: Before we tackle the budget, let’s clarify a few points
Jack Waterford: Bad news being wasted
Ben Eltham: Disability levy serves the common good
Jonathan Green: Braving risky politics for a lasting legacy
Dennis Atkins: Voters’ desire to feel secure a fundamental requirement
Laura Tingle [$]: Forget the wedges, focus on the results
Tad Tietze: The ALP and the politics of anti-immigration (both kinds)

Media

Rob Ashton: Why I reject your comments
Martin McKenzie-Murray: Truth lies mangled in wake of Boston bombings

Longer read

Piping Shrike: Review – Mark Latham’s ‘Not Dead Yet’
Michael Gawenda: It’s the story that counts. And it’s the writer who owns the story
Kate McClymont: Where angels fear to tread
Martin McKenzie-Murray: How not to write a column

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April 27, 2013 by Drag0nista

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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April 20, 2013 by Drag0nista

No Crap App: w/b 15 Apr 2013

Rowe, AFR 15 Apr 2013

Policy

Stephanie Peatling: The brave and the foolhardy
Geoff Kitney: Tony Shepherd ducks out just when he’s needed
Laura Tingle: Coalition undermines Labor’s drive to set new agenda
GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Crying poor
Tim Colebatch: We remain class-based without Gonski reforms
Tom Dusevic: ‘Education PM’ makes smart strategy move
Paul Kelly: PM needs magic to get a Gonski
Peter Hartcher: Reforms a lesson in politics
Michael Gordon: From class wars to classroom war – the Gillard battle plan

Politics

Michael Gordon: PM’s comeback now consigned to history
Paul Kelly: Solidarity with union movement makes Julia Gillard weaker
James Supple: Right-wing Labor’s in freefall – so why are union leaders backing Gillard?
Peter Lewis: In the federal election, parties and personalities matter

Media

Jonathan Green: What separates a death in Iraq from one in Boston?
Virginia Trioli: Won’t stop now

Crunchy brain food (longer read)

Katharine Murphy: This connected life

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April 13, 2013 by Drag0nista

No Crap App: w/b 8 April 2013

Rowe, AFR 11 Apr 2013

ALP

GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Labor’s damning loss of middle class Australia
Paul Kelly: Super package the act of a divided government on the run
Laura Tingle [$]: On a slippery slope, there is only one way to go
Laurie Oakes: Positive signs lost to the latest boat
Tad Tietze: Thatcher, the ALP and the dregs of neoliberalism

Liberal

Ben Eltham: NBN brings policy back into politics
Stilgherrian: Like it or not, Turnbull’s NBN vision strikes a chord
Tim Colebatch: Abbott’s big bold plan much too short on detail
Daniel Flitton: To the victor go the spoils, and a trip on troubled waters

Relations with China

Paul Kelly: Julia Gillard deserves credit for belated success in Beijing, but it’s only a start
Peter van Onselen: Beware the dangers of fawning on untamed China

April 6, 2013 by Drag0nista

No Crap App: w/b 1 Apr 2013

Abbott and the Coalition

Laura Tingle: Sense without sensibility on budget morass
Paul Kelly: New-look Tony – Do you believe him?
John Warhurst: Simplistic analysis of Abbott off mark
Jack Waterford: Beware the hungry sharks

Gillard and Labor

Simon Benson: Labor’s ghosts of 1975 haunt this death-wish government
Jack Waterford: Vultures circle Labor’s wagons

Superannuation

GrogsGamut / Greg Jericho: Apparently everyone lives on struggle street now
Laurie Oakes: ALP finally settles this super silliness
Matt Cowgill: On tax expenditures

Political commentary

Jonathan Green: Insight isn’t the main game in 24/7 punditry

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