As the third wave deepened and with only a third of eligible people fully vaccinated, the PM simply left the bad news behind and began hailing “another day of hope”, based on the latest vaccination numbers, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
People aged 20-39, who were identified by the Doherty Institute modelling as super spreaders of covid, will be targeted for the one million Pfizer doses the Morrison government has purchased from Poland.
Morrison government sets up redress scheme for survivors of Stolen Generation in territories, including the ACT, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
The government is set to tweak its vaccination timetable after Doherty Institute modelling showed it's vital to get younger adults quickly vaccinated, because they are high covid transmitters, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Federal Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese intends to use John Howard’s 1996 model as his strategic guide to the election, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
As NSW extended its lockdown for another month and the federal government shelled out more money, it was as if we were back in 2020 and Victoria’s long incarceration.
With the Coalition having limited scope to make big promises, and the opposition determined to confine itself to a fairly narrow agenda, the federal election seems likely to be centrally about the exit from covid, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison this week more or less trashed Australia’s top advisory body on immunisation, in remarks that were at best ill-judged and at worst alarming, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.