View from The Hill: Lidia Thorpe quits Greens, going to crossbench to promote ‘Blak Sovereign Movement’
Daniel Pockett/AAP Victorian Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe has defected from the Greens to sit on the crossbench, declaring she wants
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Author: Michelle Grattan News Desk
Grattan on Friday: Chalmers attracts some flak for blue sky ideas but the government has bigger problems
Chalmers has bought himself a doozy of a conversation, with his essay advocating we embrace “values-based capitalism” …
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Former deputy prime minister John Anderson joins group spearheading “no” campaign on the Voice
The committee includes four Indigenous members and two former ministers …
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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Treasurer Jim Chalmers answers critics of his ‘values-based capitalism’
In this podcast Chalmers also reveals he spoke with Paul Keating while writing of the essay, published in The Monthly. …
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Jim Chalmers lays out agenda for pursuit of ‘values-based capitalism’
Chalmers’ essay looks to the future after the uncertainties of three global crises – the GFC, the pandemic, and the energy and inflation shock …
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Body image campaigner Taryn Brumfitt is 2023 Australian of the Year
The four recipients “share a common bond – using their life experience as a power for good, helping others around them and making the world a better place …
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Grattan on Friday: Liberal post-mortem urges party to address flight of female vote – but not by quotas
Like Labor’s recent post-mortem, the Liberal analysis also points to the key importance of voters’ negative perceptions of Scott Morrison in his government’s election loss. …
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View from The Hill: Rudd is highly qualified for Washington, but might find the diplomatic corset constricting
Mick Tsikas/AAP In appointing Kevin Rudd as ambassador to the United States, Anthony Albanese is sending someone with all the
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Wong to visit Beijing as ‘strategic dialogue’ restarts in new breakthrough in Australia-China relations
The latest breakthrough in the bilateral relationship follows the meeting between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 …
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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Albanese flags new progress in China relationship ‘in coming weeks’
In this podcast, Michelle chats with the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and leader of the opposition, Peter Dutton. …
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