View from The Hill: COVID transition plan has bad news for returning travellers
The plan to transition Australia from COVID-as-crisis to COVID-like-flu that Scott Morrison has announced is designed to send a positive
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Author: Michelle Grattan News Desk
VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the vexed vaccine rollout
University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Associate Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics. …
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Grattan on Friday: The pandemic is now putting the ‘experts’ in their own world of pain
At the pandemic’s beginning experts were hailed as heroes and saviours, notwithstanding some differences among them. The politicians embraced them – but now that is all changing. …
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View from The Hill: Scott Morrison’s AstraZeneca ‘hand grenade’ turns into cluster bomb
The debate about the vexed vaccination rollout on Wednesday exploded into an extraordinary free-for-all, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison under
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View from The Hill: No, this isn’t based on the medical advice
We follow the medical advice, has been a Morrison government mantra since the pandemic’s start. Well, not any more. With
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Podcast with Michelle Grattan: the return to lockdown
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with politics + society editor, Amanda Dunn …
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View from The Hill: Darren Chester on being ‘screwed over’ by Barnaby Joyce – twice
Darren Chester says he can’t explain why Barnaby Joyce sacked him because the Deputy Prime Minister was “incoherent” when he
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View from The Hill: COVID battle on a knife edge
The argument Scott Morrison has consistently put – that NSW has a better way of dealing with COVID, by avoiding
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Joyce repays supporters and demotes opponents in a ‘reward and punishment’ reshuffle
The Nationals Senate leader Bridget McKenzie has been restored to cabinet and Darren Chester has been dropped to the backbench in a reshuffle of blatant reward and punishment following Barnaby Joyce’s elevation. …
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Senate knocks out regulation allowing ARENA to fund carbon capture and blue hydrogen
The Senate has disallowed a government regulation that would have allowed the ARENA to invest in technologies such as carbon capture and storage and “blue hydrogen” using fossil fuel. …
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