Gillard

• Jane Gilmore: Media bunnies become the hounds

Abbott

• Geoff Kitney: Abbott gets dumped by anti-Gillard wave
• Laura Tingle: PM’s blitzkrieg has opposition on the back foot

Rudd

• Jack Waterford: Rudd throws hand grenade
• Peter van Onselen: Sweeping powers create dictatorship
• Michael Gordon: The honeymoon is frenetic but will the Rudd love last?
• Julia Holam: Rock enrol – can Rudd recapture the youth vote?
• Ben Eltham: Can Rudd win the economic debate?

Other crunchy brain food

• Nick Bryant: Sam Dastyari tries to fix the ALP
• Norman Abjorensen: Political crisis puts forerunners in the shade
• Tad Tietze: Caught flat-footed – The Greens without Gillard
• David Marr: Ashbygate – the great disappearing scandal about to roar back into life
• Greg Jericho: Australia’s economy – five pointers from Glenn Stevens
• Tim Dunlop: Fact-checking sites are a symptom not a cure