Politics with Michelle Grattan
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Senator Lidia Thorpe’s defection from the Greens changed the power dynamic in the Senate. Now the government needs two crossbenchers (and the Greens) to pass legislation opposed by the Coalition. Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie and her colleague Tammy Tyrrell can provide those two votes, which puts them in a potentially strong bargaining position.
Lambie has never been afraid to call things how she see’s them. She recently visited Alice Springs and urged the situation needed some “tough love”.
In this podcast Lambie urges a return to the old Community Development Employment Projects program for Indigenous communities. Under the CDEP people exchanged unemployment benefits for work and training managed by a local Indigenous community organisations. “I don’t know how many of these places I’ve visited in the Indigenous communities over the last nine years where they just so much praise that old jobs program.”
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Grattan Institute’s Tony Wood on managing the shift in climate policy
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British High Commissioner Vicki Treadell on AUKUS and climate change
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Word from The Hill: Christian Porter’s anonymous money pot
Kate Jenkins on the women‘s agenda
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Word from The Hill: Learning to live with COVID
Pat Turner on COVID – and god botherers – stalking Indigenous communities
Doherty’s Sharon Lewin on pivoting from chasing COVID zero
Word from the Hill: The battle to exit COVID
Word from The Hill: Was the Afghanistan War worth it?
Anthony Albanese says Afghans in Australia should be given permanent residency
Josh Frydenberg on uncertain economic times
Word from the Hill: A reprimand for Christensen and Morrison on climate
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