Tag: Michelle Grattan
Dutton and Frydenberg struggle with the currents in shark-infested waters
Like Dutton, Frydenberg has plenty of ambition.
Mick Tsikas/AAP
Peter Dutton and Josh Frydenberg, both aged 47, are two of Malcolm Turnbull’s cabinet high flyers...
Crucial Super Saturday Labor victories a major fillip for Shorten
Late Saturday night, on counting so far, Lamb led the
Liberal National Party’s Trevor Ruthenberg by 55-45% on the two-party vote
– a...
Grattan on Friday: Disillusioned voters find it easy to embrace a crossbencher like Rebekha Sharkie
Liberal candidate Georgina Downer, Greens candidate
Major ‘Moogy’ Sumner, Centre Alliance candidate Rebekha Sharkie
and Labor candidate Reg Coutts at the Mayo candidates...
Grattan on Friday: Bill Shorten had a ‘captain’s fall’ rather than making a ‘captain’s call’
Some who flirt with the idea of a change believe Labor
is on the cusp of regaining office but fear Shorten mightn’t get...
Grattan on Friday: Government and Labor unite to erect the barriers against foreign interference
Attorney-general Christian Porter explicitly cast
an eye to coming byelections when welcoming the release of the report.
Lukas Coch/AAP
The government couldn’t have had a...
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...