Michelle Grattan
View from The Hill: Albanese trips, Morrison claims ignorance of huge payout in Tudge affair
The first on-the-ground day of the election campaign has turned into a damaging loss for Anthony Albanese. If Labor can find any...
View from The Hill: Morrison talks risk, Albanese spruiks opportunity, in opening pitches
When they faced the media to deliver their opening campaign pitches on Sunday, the core messages of Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese...
Michelle Grattan: An election fought on the political low ground
The federal election on May 21 will be a contest between a desperate prime minister and an opposition leader who sometimes looks...
View from The Hill: Budget week punctuated by distractions
In the middle of budget week, Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese boarded a VIP aircraft bound for Melbourne to attend Shane Warne’s...
View from The Hill: SA result is morale boost for Albanese, but he’s struggling with Kitching allegations
Move over Mark McGowan and make some space for South Australia’s Peter Malinauskas on Scott Morrison’s recently installed couch of Labor “besties”....
There’s a fine line between gloves-off politics and bullying
The so-called “mean girls” story following the death of Victorian Labor senator Kimberley Kitching, has opened up issues of alleged bad behaviour...
View from The Hill: Liberal rebels’ ‘religious discrimination’ revolt leaves PM scarred and humbled
It’s a bad sign when a government starts eating its own. The backbench Liberal revolt that pushed a protection for transgender kids...
Aged care residents are paying the price for this government’s slow learners
Richard Colbeck had to face the music this week over attending the fifth Test in his home state of Tasmania when he’d...
View from The Hill: Morrison a ‘psycho’ – now who would have said that?
A flurry of categorical denials by senior ministers has followed the report that a current Liberal cabinet minister described Scott Morrison as...
Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison’s ministerial team looks far from match-fit
It sounded a touch desperate – Prime Minister Scott Morrison imploring backpackers to “come on down” to Australia, as the Omicron crisis...