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Grattan on Saturday: Should Anthony Albanese keep his word on the Stage 3 tax cuts?
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The final, mega stage of the Coalition’s tax cuts, worth more than $240 billion over a decade, are now in the gun...
Former High Court judge Virginia Bell to investigate Morrison’s secret ministries
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The government has appointed former High Court judge Virginia Bell to inquire into former Prime Minister Scott Morrison having himself secretly appointed...
Grattan on Saturday: Can Albanese government wring consensus from union-business impasse over industrial relations?
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The escalating cost of living is your ally when you’re an opposition seeking election, but when you’re in office, it’s a rampaging...
View from The Hill: How does Albanese frame Morrison inquiry without embroiling the governor-general?
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Solicitor-General Stephen Donaghue has neatly summarised Scott Morrison’s political misdemeanour in having himself secretly appointed to all those ministries.
Morrison, by his failure...
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...