Budget

• Greg Jericho: From budget emergency to budget boredom
• Jonathan Green: Maybe we need to subcontract the budget process

 Leadership

• Phil Coorey: Government full of issues that dare not speak their name

Labor

• Laura Tingle: Bill Shorten who? Tony Abbott is wrestling with himself

Other thinkiness

• Tom Burton: Benching talent brings worst of Washminster
• Pat Garcia: One term to rule them, one term to reform them
• Tim Dunlop: Further proof that distribution, not content, is king
• Mark Skulley: Hey politicians. We want good policy, not partisanship

By request, my posts for the week

• Baird and the budget to decide Abbott’s fate
• Abbott’s alternate reality