The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
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Federal Labor is pushing hard on James Ashby. A prime motive is embarrassing the Coalition over preferences, ahead of the Queensland election, and the later federal one.
Politics podcast: Chris Bowen on Labor’s budget responses
Labor is 'taking a bit of time' before announcing its position on the company tax cuts, Chris Bowen says.
Malcolm Turnbull has asked Theresa May to convey Australia’s solidarity, love and prayers to the people of Manchester.
Labor has formally decided to try to thwart the government’s Gonski schools legislation, while the Greens are looking over their shoulder at what their base would think if they opt to back it. Meanwhile…
At an extraordinary news conference, Hanson staffer James Ashby admitted the revelation was ‘embarrassing’, adding that it was a ‘poor choice of words on my behalf’.
The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
A combination of incompetence and expediency has let down the country in the task of fixing up the budget.
Politics podcast: Dennis Richardson on telling it like it is
Dennis Richardson was never afraid to tell ministers what he believed they should hear, and any grudges they had as a result they apparently got over very quickly.
The S&P Global report cites the potential for low wage growth and low inflation as a ‘downside risk’ for the projections on getting to budget balance.
Nick Greiner’s business connections would be helpful in the urgent need for the strapped party to raise funds.
Some predict Turnbull’s leadership will be in the frame unless the numbers improve; on the other hand, another change would be extremely hard.
Only one in five believe they will be better off from the budget.
The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
As the government sought to fireproof itself in Labor’s areas of strength, the budget produced a new challenge for Bill Shorten.
Bill Shorten has said Labor will oppose the budget’s increase in the Medicare levy hitting taxpayers on incomes under A$87,000.
But the key point is that the big five banks are the ideal soft target for a tax raid because they are both rich and lacking in friends.
Despite the hefty tax imposts in Tuesday’s budget, Mathias Cormann still insists the fiscal problem was a spending rather than a revenue one.
The budget is squarely directed at trying to undo continuing damage from the harsh Abbott government 2014 budget.
Scott Morrison has delivered a surprisingly big-taxing budget that pays for the last burial rites of the toxic Abbott legacy from 2014.
It’s been a good while since Mark Latham has had much in common with the party he once led, but he can still boil the blood of some of its members.
Julie Bishop has refused to sack Yassmin Abdel-Magied from the board of the Council for Australian-Arab Relations, resisting pressure from some in government ranks.
Politics podcast: Andrew Giles on schools funding
Andrew Giles says the strong opposition from Catholic schools to the government's education package is because they were given 'almost no notice' of the funding changes.
Scott Morrison has a lot on his plate ahead of Tuesday night’s federal budget, including Catholic schools unhappy at how the school funding changes will affect them.
The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
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