Politics with Michelle Grattan
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As well as Michelle Grattan’s usual interviews with experts and politicians about the news of the day, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where all things political will be discussed with members of The Conversation’s politics team.
As parliament is in its final sitting weeks for the year, the religious discrimination bill was put to the coalition party room. Concerns with the bill, to be introduced by Scott Morrison on Tuesday were raised by Liberal moderates. It will be sent to a senate committee and its fate remains up in the air.
Queensland MP Andrew Wallace is the new speaker, and the Opposition was quick to test him out in Tuesday’s question time.
The government will be pushing its legislation for Voter ID during this sitting. But it’s not clear where the numbers lie, with Labor strongly opposing a move that it says will make it harder for the disadvantaged to vote.
The prime minister’s integrity has been again in the spotlight, over a text message he sent to Anthony Albanese when he was on route to Hawaii in 2019 during the bushfires.
Scott Morrison defends Katherine Deves (again), but slips up on surgery detail
Dave Sharma, Allegra Spender, and Kerryn Phelps on the contest for Wentworth
On the rate rise, Albanese’s launch and what a Frydenberg loss would mean for the Liberals
Economist Saul Eslake on why Reserve Bank needs to raise rates next week
Ray Hadley’s shouty assault on Albanese; the intractable Solomons issue; and the wider play of Deves
Andrew Wilkie invites independent candidates to call him for a chat about approaching a hung parliament
Joe Hockey on Trump, Biden, and the federal election
Morrison suggests voters judge him as they would their dentist
Josh Frydenberg is optimistic about wage growth
Word from The Hill: Next step for Morrison is visit to governor-general
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on the budget Labor can’t oppose
Sarah Ferguson on reporting from Ukraine
Labor will give human rights award in memory of Kitching
Stay calm, petrol is headed down, budget is improving – economist Chris Richardson
Be careful what you say about your opponent’s ‘makeover’
Mark Maund on improving our resilience to deal with flood crises
Word from The Hill: Subs, floods and people saying it’s ‘time to give someone else a go’
Russian specialist Matthew Sussex on Putin’s potential to start wider war
Assistance for Ukraine and Peter Dutton’s fundraising
Australian politics in an uncertain world
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