Michelle Grattan
Peter Dutton says he could handle Donald Trump, but can any Australian PM?
In the Trump age, how the next government, whether Labor or Coalition, will handle foreign affairs, defence and trade is shaping as...
Will voters fear PM Peter Dutton would be a surprise packet?
Australian politicians on both sides of the house say protectionist policies are bad, right? That Australia, as a country, believes in and...
Tariff rebuff feeds into debate about how Australia handles Donald Trump
Anthony Albanese didn’t mince words in responding to Donald Trump’s refusal to grant Australia an exemption from the United States’ tariff on...
Anthony Albanese beset by disruptors, from Cyclone Alfred to Donald Trump
Issues sometimes “come at you”, Anthony Albanese declared on Thursday at the end of a news conference at Canberra’s National Situation Room...
The ‘China issue’ is again causing problems for Australian politics
As the Albanese government struggles to stay on its political feet, who would have thought the China issue would suddenly insert itself...
The political mud flies as election date looms, but will the voters take much notice?
In these scrappy days before the Prime Minister announces the election date, the mud and the personal insults are flying, despite the...
Dutton tries to neutralise health issue by saying, ‘we’ll do just what Labor does’
Peter Dutton has launched a game of one-upmanship after Anthony Albanese at the weekend unveiled Labor’s $8.5 billion health policy that promises...
Trump shadow hangs increasingly over election
Treasurer Jim Chalmers will not be organising a bucks’ night ahead of the coming nuptials of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Jodie...
Will Albanese opt for an April election now that a rates cut has him breathing more easily?
The Reserve Bank has delivered the expected modest rate cut of a quarter of a percentage point, and we’re set for the...
Albanese and Trump put Australia in holding patterns on election timing and tariffs
When parliamentarians left Canberra on Thursday after the fortnight sitting, federal politics had the air of an uneasy waiting game. Waiting for...