Tag: Barnaby Joyce
Grattan on Saturday: Blowin’ in the wind with Barnaby
Scott Morrison is fond of telling his troops they’re in a boat. On Thursday he said Barnaby Joyce was “a wind in the sails”....
View from The Hill: Nationals give Scott Morrison a muscle man to deal with – especially on net zero
Picture: Lukas Coch/AAP
One central reason why the Nationals have installed Barnaby Joyce, with all the risks and baggage he carries, is because they want...
View from The Hill: Biloela family to be released but Hawke has yet to reveal the terms
Picture: James Ross/AAP
The Biloela Tamil family will finally be released from detention.
Immigration Minister Alex Hawke will announce this sometime today, but we have yet...
View from The Hill: It’s the internal agitators who are bugging Scott Morrison on Adani
Morrison tried to shrug off anti-Adani protesters who
interrupted him at a lunch in Brisbane. Dave Hunt/AAP
Barnaby Joyce describes the contentious Adani coal mine,...
Grattan on Friday: Winners and losers on the tests of judgement, temperament and character
Greg Hunt’s temperament is of the “street-angel,
house-devil” type. Mick Tsikas/AAP
It’s obvious, but easily underestimated, that in politics judgement and temperament are key. Together...
Grattan on Friday: The Nationals have been paralysed by the extraordinary and unpredictable Joyce situation
Mathias Cormann is taking full advantage of this
rare moment as acting prime minister. Dan Peled/AAP
You can’t help loving how the boy from...