All posts by Michelle Grattan
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…
View from The Hill: Labor holds 53-47% lead but Albanese takes a hit in Newspoll
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Labor has clung to its 53-47% two-party lead in the latest Newspoll, but Anthony Albanese’s ratings have taken a knock after his error-prone first week of the campaign. While Labor would win on this vote, with a uniform…
Australians to vote on May 21, with Scott Morrison starting behind in the polls
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Australian voters will go to the polls on May 21. The government enters the battle trailing the opposition 46-54% in the latest Newspoll, conducted after the budget, with Morrison and opposition leader Anthony Albanese virtually level as preferred…
Grattan on Friday: A new government would bring changes for the bureaucrats in the Canberra ‘bubble’
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. With a change of government a real prospect according to the opinion polls, public servants are starting to gossip about what an Albanese administration would mean for them. For Canberra’s bureaucrats, it’s been a cold climate in the…
High Court win for Morrison, as he prepares to fire election starting gun
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Scott Morrison has won, in a Friday decision by the High Court, his long running battle over NSW Liberal party preselections, clearing the way for him to call the election. Former Liberal party member Matthew Camenzuli – expelled…