Government announces $2.5 billion package to support training and apprenticeships, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Why not have an inquiry to examine the pros and cons of suppression versus elimination? asks political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
QLD closed its border to people who have been in the NSW Liverpool and Campbelltown local government areas [and] the proposed reopening of the SA-NSW border has been delayed, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Nationally, the suppression versus elimination debate is one that we’ve never properly had. Maybe it’s time we did, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Scott Morrison will take a proposal to Friday’s national cabinet to slow arrivals of Australians returning from overseas, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Under the restrictions, people will only be able to leave their home to shop for essential goods and services, for care and compassionate reasons, exercise, and for work and study if it cannot be conducted from home, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Morrison said they had agreed “now is the time for Victoria to isolate itself from the rest of the country. What’s different here [is] this isn’t other states closing their borders to Victoria”, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Anthony Albanese is set to struggle over the line in the Labor seat, courtesy of preferences including from the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers, unlikely bedfellows who, being on the top of the ballot paper, got the “donkey” vote, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Saturday is crucial for Albanese but July 23 is more important for Morrison, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
More surprising, almost all participants were willing to pay more tax to assist the economic and social recovery effort, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Labor believes the funding squeeze on the ABC resonates as an issue in the electorate, where the national broadcaster had a vital communications role during the bushfires, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
For a month Victoria will lock down 36 suburbs in 10 Melbourne postcode areas, and Premier Daniel Andrews has asked Prime Minister Scott Morrison to stop flights bringing quarantine passengers into the city for a fortnight, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
