The week that was…

There seems to be no way to avoid this week’s main political story – the hows and whys of Labor’s assault on the Greens. First the blogosphere exploded with comment and analysis, followed by the mainstream media. A selection of those pieces can be found here.

Also collected are links to interesting pieces on the economy, future of the media and pursuit of good policy.

Labor v Greens

MSM

• Peter van Onselen: The end of the affair?
• Peter Brent: Greens can thank Libs
• Michelle Grattan: Labor playing with fire in its rush to burn the Green witch
• Geoff Kitney: Gillard faces a fraction too much fiction
• Tim Watts: Left won’t lead the party to rebuild

Blogosphere / new media

• Drag0nista*: Don’t be surprised, Greens are not Labor’s natural ally
• Piping Shrike: The day the Gillard government died
• Alex White: Putting the Greens Party last a mistake
• Guido Tresoldi: Labor-Green skirmish. A view from inner suburban caffelatte land
• Ben Eltham: ALP tears won’t bring voters back
• Jeff Sparrow: Labor’s spectacular own goal

Economics

• Ross Gittins: Farmers good, big retailers bad – could that really be true?
• John Black: Traditional ‘working families’ are hardest hit
• AFR interactive maps: Mortgage stress across Australia
• George Megalogenis: Howard, Rudd and Gillard all let opposition damn bright ideas
• Video: What the luck! George Megalogenis, Paul Cleary and Peter Hartcher

Media

• Tim Dunlop: Why commercial media should learn their ABCs and The real lesson of The Global Mail
• Peter van Onselen: Politicians prove hate media got it right

Policy

• Miriam Lyons: Ideas worth playing for

*I don’t normally include my own posts, but this one is directly relevant to the blogosphere discussion.