Tag: Michelle Grattan - article author
View from The Hill: Morrison’s passion for control trashed conventions and accountability
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The only credible explanation for Scott Morrison personally installing himself, as an undisclosed ministerial partner, in several portfolios is the former prime...
Grattan on Saturday: Will ‘teals’ strike Liberals another blow in Victorian and NSW elections?
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The federal Liberals are in a parlous state, after an election that was not just lost to Labor but where “teals” stripped...
Grattan on Saturday: Government win on climate legislation leaves opposition looking like a stranded asset
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Perhaps not since the marriage equality vote has the passage of a bill in the House of Representatives carried such a combination...
View from The Hill: House vote on allowing territories to legalise voluntary assisted dying likely this week
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In 1997, Tony Burke was a high profile organiser mustering support to quash a law that had been passed in the Northern...
Albanese releases draft wording for Indigenous ‘Voice to parliament’ referendum
Image: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the Garma Festival in northeast Arnhem Land on Friday. Aaron Bunch/AAP
Anthony Albanese will propose draft wording to insert into...
Grattan on Saturday: Jim Chalmers is a good performer, but can he hold the public’s trust through hard times?
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Jim Chalmers delivers bad economic news well, which is a good thing because there’s a great deal of it about, with a...