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.
Scott Morrison is gearing up for the election in the first half of 2022. As the country emerges from COVID constraints, the PM is trying to make up for lost time on the ground, travelling in NSW and Victoria this week. He’s selling some of the nitty gritty of his emissions reduction policy, including a plan to encourage the take up of electric cars.
But in Melbourne he was confronted by his own embarrassing quotes from 2019, when he laid into Labor’s policy on these vehicles, claiming they would “end the weekend” and that people who lived in apartments would have to dangle an extension cord out of their windows to charge their cars.
Michelle and Amanda also canvass the latest developments in the allegations, involving federal MPs, of branch stacking activities in the Victorian Liberal and Labor parties, and the slow grind in the quest for a federal integrity commission.
Scott Morrison’s (thin) climate plan for Glasgow
Phil Honeywood on the challenges of getting international students back
Mustering the government’s rural rump into the 2050 tent
Grattan Institute’s Tony Wood on managing the shift in climate policy
Word from The Hill: A prime minister, a prince and the ‘last chance saloon’.
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Former judge Stephen Charles slams government’s integrity commission model
The push to run independents on issues of climate and integrity
Coalition free-for-all over 2050 target
British High Commissioner Vicki Treadell on AUKUS and climate change
Word from The Hill: The Furious French and Porter‘s fall
Word from The Hill: Christian Porter’s anonymous money pot
Kate Jenkins on the women‘s agenda
Word from the Hill: A Father‘s Day backlash hits Scott Morrison
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
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