From Parliament House, MICHELLE GRATTAN writes that with Barnaby Joyce's elevation this week, political life changed dramatically for the Prime Minister.
Barnaby Joyce has blasted Michael McCormack out to seize back his old job of Nationals leader.
Not all the Nationals oppose the 2050 target but enough of them do – and very strongly – to create a serious obstacle for the Prime Minister, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson put Scott Morrison on the spot when he told their joint news conference he thought the Australian PM had “declared for net zero by 2050”, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
UPDATE: Immigration Minister Alex Hawke has released the Biloela family from incarceration on Christmas Island but confined them to community detention in Perth while their court action proceeds.
Biloela family to be released but Immigration Minister Alex Hawke has yet to reveal the terms, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Scott Morrison, who was embraced as a bro’ by Donald Trump, now seeks to become one of Joe Biden’s besties, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
The Morrison government has escape hatch in the Biloela Tamil family case – if it wants to use it, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
This week the prime minister tried to hold out on giving assistance to Victorians, hoping the state’s latest lockdown would last only seven days. But he had to capitulate, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
New "expert" advice is in – don't say the vaccine rollout is "not a race", writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
In walking away from his defamation action against the ABC, cabinet minister Christian Porter has opened a fresh round in the battle over the allegation of historical rape against him by a now-deceased woman, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Christian Porter settled for an ABC acknowledgement it hadn’t intended to suggest he was guilty and did not contend the accusations against him could be substantiated to a legal standard, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
