View from The Hill: Dutton would get a lashing if Voice lost, but the implications would be more serious for Albanese
It would be foolish to over-read the latest Newspoll. It doesn’t point to doom for the Voice, but it does
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Author: Michelle Grattan News Desk
Dialogue is vital ‘guardrail’ in dealing with China, Albanese tells international security forum
Albanese, in an address being promoted as the most important he has made internationally, warned of the dangers where there was not “the pressure valve of dialogue”. …
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Grattan on Friday: the PwC scandal should be ripe for the National Anti-Corruption Commission’s attention
The scandal, involving the improper use of confidential government information for financial gain, would seem an ideal probe for the NACC to cut its teeth on. …
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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Liberal MP Bridget Archer urges other moderates to speak up as she presses for party change
Archer is pushing for extensive reform in a party that is electorally on the ropes and out of office everywhere except her home state of Tasmania. …
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WA Premier Mark McGowan quits in shock announcement, declaring he is ‘exhausted’
WA Premier Mark McGowan has announced his shock decision to step down, saying he is ‘exhausted’ after six years as premier and more than 26 years as a state Labor MP. …
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Grattan on Friday: Labor’s national conference looms but the party’s rank and file has lost its bite
The Labor Party will hold its national conference in Brisbane. Coincidentally, the venue is in the electorate of Griffith, which Labor lost to the Greens in 2022 …
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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Labor’s Julian Hill on employment, AI, Julian Assange and TikTok
In this podcast, Labor MP Julian Hill joins Michelle Grattan to discuss the job market and getting people into work, artificial intelligence, Julian Assange, and TikTok. …
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Dutton condemns Voice as symptom of ‘identity politics’, as Burney says it will bring ‘better outcomes’
As debate on the historic referendum legislation, Dutton claimed the Voice would ‘re-racialise our nation’. …
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View from The Hill: Quad without hoopla still worked, while China visit will require delicate diplomacy
Jonathan Ernst/Pool/AP Anthony Albanese now has a firm promise of a state visit to the United States this year, and
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Grattan on Friday: Albanese governs on softly-softly catchee monkey formula. Would Plibersek or Chalmers have been bolder?
Like Albanese, Plibersek is pragmatic, but probably hasn’t moved quite so far to the centre as he has. If she were running things, would this Labor government have a more radical tinge? …
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