All posts by Michelle Grattan
what makes Scott Morrison tick?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Today we are running two longer articles looking at the men who are vying to be the next Australian prime minister. You can read Paul Strangio’s profile of Anthony Albanese here. Revealing insights into Scott Morrison’s political character…
Albanese and Morrison caught on fly-papers of wages, gender
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Both Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison landed themselves onto the sticky paper on Tuesday, as they trudged through this campaign’s penultimate week. The issues couldn’t have been more different. But each was an area of their respective vulnerabilities…
Dave Sharma, Allegra Spender, and Kerryn Phelps on the contest for Wentworth
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. In the Wentworth Project, sponsored by the University of Canberra’s Centre for Change Governance and The Conversation, we are tapping into voters’ opinions in this seat, which appears to be on a knife edge. In this podcast we…
Albanese pledges to make gender pay equity a Fair Work Act objective
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Anthony Albanese has pledged a Labor government would make gender pay equity an objective of the Fair Work Act and strengthen the Fair Work Commission’s powers to order pay rises for workers in low paid industries dominated by…
View from The Hill: Labor strongly ahead in Newspoll and Resolve, as election race enters final half
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Labor’s confidence will be boosted by two polls showing it holding a strong lead, as Anthony Albanese carried off a well-orchestrated party launch in Perth on Sunday. Newspoll, published in Monday’s Australian, has Labor ahead on a two-party…
Economist Saul Eslake on why Reserve Bank needs to raise rates next week
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. After Wednesday’s larger-than-expected inflation number, all attention has turned to the Reserve Bank’s meeting on Tuesday. If the bank moves next week, it will be the first time there’s been a rise in a campaign since 2007, the…
Managing post-COVID a delicate balance for Anthony Albanese
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Philip Lowe mightn’t be a household name but the Reserve Bank governor finds himself catapulted right into the centre of this election campaign, in which events are proving more important than policies. The very large inflation spike has…
Andrew Wilkie invites independent candidates to call him for a chat about approaching a hung parliament
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Andrew Wilkie, MP for the Tasmanian seat of Clark, has “lived” a hung parliament. In 2010, Wilkie did a formal “deal” to support Julia Gillard. When later she didn’t deliver on his key issue of gambling reform, he…
The Wentworth Project: ‘Soft’ voters dislike Morrison but hesitate about Albanese
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. “Soft” voters who took part in focus groups in the Sydney seat of Wentworth this week were probably speaking for a vast number of Australians when they vented their disgruntlement with the two leaders who are fighting out…
He’s the treasurer who may become the next leader of the Liberal Party. So how high can Josh Frydenberg fly?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. `This is the first in a two-part series on the major parties’ Treasury spokespeople. You can read Carol Johnson’s profile of Jim Chalmers here. When Josh Frydenberg was studying law at Monash University, he’d tell fellow students he…