April 1 Aston byelection will be an all-female battle
The frontrunners are Melbourne City Councillor Roshena Campbell, a lawyer, and oncologist Ranjana Srivastava, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
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Tudge said the decision, cemented after his father’s recent death, was necessary for his health and for his family, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Albanese will also flatly reject opposition calls for the government to legislate the Voice at once, pointing out that the call from Indigenous people is for it to be in the Constitution, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Chalmers is attempting to interlock economic and social policy objectives. The success of his prescriptions, however, would depend on how they were implemented, case by case, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
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Alice Springs crime crisis is impeding Voice debate
Scrymgour, a strong supporter of the Voice, warned on Monday that until what was happening in Alice Springs could be fixed, people weren’t going to be interested in the Voice, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
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Morrison endures the witness box
As senior minister at its inception, Morrison might be characterised (fairly or not) as the father of Robodebt, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
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Australians feeling economic pain, but not blaming Albo
Anthony Albanese heads towards Christmas with inflation, interest rates and power prices all high writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Despite the Morrison government’s unpopularity, Labor’s primary vote fell to its lowest level since 1934, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
In the immediate term, the outcome is a win for “Pocock power”, as well as for Albanese and the unions, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Pocock has undertaken community consultations. But, in the end, he has to make his calls, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
The major contested change is the extent to which the legislation widens employees’ right to bargain with multiple employers, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Under the amendment, votes by workers – to be part of an agreement, to take industrial action, or to accept an agreement – would be at the individual business level, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
In the space of a few months the cost of living has transformed, politically, from a Labor weapon to a Coalition one, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
New policies have been largely offset across this year and next year to avoid adding to the inflationary problem. But the budget contains alarming news for households, with its estimates of soaring energy prices, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
The budget pays for the largest indexation increase to payments in more than 30 years for allowances and the largest in 12 years for pensions, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Labor is committed to generous spending on areas such as disability. As it should be. But it needs to make sure dollars aren’t squandered in these money guzzlers, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
The review says that policy failures (for example on quarantine) and politics led to too many lockdowns and border closures, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Shaping up as an outspoken protagonist in the current “gas wars”, Industry Minister Ed Husic this week launched a barrage of criticism at the producers, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Anthony Albanese on Sunday insisted the government’s intention to deliver the Stage 3 tax cuts has not changed, while he reinforced the expectation of deep spending cuts in this month’s budget to attack “waste”.
