All posts by Michelle Grattan
Morrison rejects Joyce’s offer to resign over calling the PM ‘hypocrite’ and ‘liar’
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce this week offered his resignation to Scott Morrison over an explosive text in which he called the prime minister “a hypocrite and a liar”. But Morrison did not take up the offer, instead…
Aged care residents are paying for lessons not learned fast enough
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Richard Colbeck had to face the music this week over attending the fifth test in his home state of Tasmania when he’d told the Senate COVID committee he was too busy working on the Omicron wave spreading through…
Morrison a ‘psycho’ – now who would have said that?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. A flurry of categorical denials by senior ministers has followed the report that a current Liberal cabinet minister described Scott Morrison as a “psycho” in a text exchange with then NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian during the summer bushfires…
Scott Morrison pursues commercialisation of Australian research with $2 billion new money
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Scott Morrison will continue to tip out large dollops of money when he addresses the National Press Club on Tuesday, with his theme “building national resilience”. He will announce the government will fund a $2.2 billion Research Commercialisation…
Labor leads Coalition 56-44% and Morrison slumps dramatically in first 2022 Newspoll
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Labor has opened a 56-44% two-party lead and Scott Morrison’s net satisfaction rating has plunged 11 points in Newspoll, after a disastrous summer in which Omicron has ripped through most of the country and deaths have spiked. The…
Novak Djokovic to be deported after Federal Court upholds government visa cancellation
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Novak Djokovic has lost his bid to stave off deportation, with the Federal Court upholding the decision by Immigration Minister Alex Hawke on Friday that he should be thrown out in the “public interest”. After Sunday’s hearing, a…
Djokovic admits doing photoshoot knowing he was COVID positive
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Novak Djokovic on Wednesday admitted he undertook an interview and photoshoot in Serbia last month after a receiving a positive COVID test result. He also conceded information on his Travel Declaration to Australian authorities was incorrect, attributing that…
Novak Djokovic’s visa cancelled ‘in the public interest’, with possible 3-year ban from Australia
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Immigration Minister Alex Hawke announced late Friday he had cancelled tennis star Novak Djokovic’s visa “on health and good order grounds, on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so”. Djokovic’s lawyers immediately went…