Reserve Bank to have two boards after overhaul by inquiry
These include the establishment of a separate Monetary Policy Board and Governance Board, aimed at making both decision-making and governance arrangements as effective as possible …
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Author: Michelle Grattan News Desk
View from The Hill: Albanese should not try to make the Voice the only game in town in Indigenous affairs
There are two huge issues in Indigenous affairs at the moment: the Voice and the problems in Northern Territory Indigenous
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Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to be Peter Dutton’s right-hand campaigner against the Voice
Price, the new shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, has been one of the loudest, most trenchant opponents of the Voice. …
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Grattan on Friday: Chalmers grapples with a budget where economics and politics pull in different directions
The Albanese government had no intention of giving the Low and Middle Income Tax Offset a further lease of life. It just would have preferred that a pesky journalist hadn’t highlighted the fact …
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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Professor Marcia Langton on the Voice’s powers and potential
In this podcast, Michelle Grattan and Professor Marcia Langton discuss the Voice to Parliament and constitutional recognition for First Nations Australians …
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View from The Hill: Julian Leeser shifts his own dial in the Liberal Party
The decision of Julian Leeser, who has resigned from the opposition frontbench to campaign for a yes vote on the
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Julian Leeser, Liberal spokesman on the Voice, quits opposition frontbench to campaign for yes vote
Leeser says his position is based on ‘keeping faith with the First Peoples of this land’, though he has affirmed his support for Peter Dutton’s leadership in the Liberal Party. …
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Grattan on Friday: the high cost of the Liberals’ Voice rejection – for both Peter Dutton and the party
Peter Dutton’s success in holding the Liberal show together has been strictly limited. And it has come at the cost of deepening the division in the country. …
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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Simon Birmingham on the Voice, Aston, the Liberals, Uranium
In this podcast, Michelle Grattan and South Australian senator Simon Birmingham discuss the Voice, the Aston byelection defeat and “where to now?” for the Liberal Party …
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View from The Hill: Peter Dutton’s risky call to campaign for ‘No’ in Voice referendum
Opposition leader Peter Dutton has pledged to campaign against the Voice to Parliament, as the Liberal party overwhelmingly endorsed a
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