- Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Michelle & Bill Shorten
Registered providers have been warned they'll be reined in on "price gouging" as part of the bid to curb costs.
Michelle & Amanda 04.10
Michelle Grattan & politics + society editor Amanda Dunn canvass Tuesdays interest rate hike, Australia's repatriation mission of women and children in refugee camps and the Brittany Higgins trial.
McQueen – who ousted a moderate, former MP Trish Worth, to become a vice-president – is known for airing her frank opinions, often unhelpful for her party.
As of Sunday morning, the Minister for Government Services Bill Shorten and Cyber Security Minister Clare O'Neil were yet to receive information from Optus that was requested on September 27.
National Cabinet has removed the isolation requirements for those who test positive to COVID-19.
Albanese & Dutton see common ground regarding the National Anti-Corruption Commission legislation introduced to parliament earlier this week.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus on the National Anti-Corruption Commission
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus chats with Michelle Grattan about the National Anti-Corruption Commission, who will head it, and protections for whistleblowers.
Under the proposed legislation for the Albanese governments anti-corruption body, public hearings would only be held in ‘exceptional circumstances’ and in the public interest.
The Albanese government is moving to implement seven legislative changes recommended by Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins in her Respect@Work Report
While Labor has the numbers in the lower house, it would need one additional vote beyond the Greens if the opposition opposed the legislation in the Senate.
University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Paddy Nixon discuss the week in politics.
Ambassador Myroshnychenko & Michelle Grattan
“Hop in a taxi [in Kyiv] and the taxi driver is going to ask you, 'where are you from?' And you say you're Australian. Most likely he's going to say 'Bushmaster"
Chalmers knows there must be a reckoning. But when, and in what form?
Jim Chalmers on Tuesday announced the budget outcome for the financial year just ended will be nearly $50 billion better than anticipated at the time former treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s delivered his budget in March.
Michelle & Amanda Dunn 20.09
In this podcast, Michelle & Amanda Dunn discuss the $50b windfall improvement announced by Jim Chalmers, legislation for a national integrity commission, and the challenges facing a republic
Albanese’s bid to change Australia’s constitutional arrangements has been pencilled in for a second term, assuming Labor gets one.
f you have a look into the media coverage it would seem that it's not a problem at all. [But] COVID deaths are far greater than at any time in the last two to three years"
Michelle & Amanda 1309
Michelle and Amanda Dunn, the Conversation's politics editor, canvass Anthony Albanese's announcement of ten "everyday" Australians who will travel with him to the UK on Thursday for the Queen's funeral
The Prime Minister and the leader of the Opposition shared differing opinions today regarding King Charles’ advocacy on climate change
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Governor-General David Hurley will fly to London for events marking the passing of Queen Elizabeth, culminating in her funeral at Westminster Abbey. Next week’s sitting…
Anthony Albanese beats his drum about transparency but has rejected calls for more light to be shed on national cabinet meetings
Simon Holmes à Court on ‘community independents’ and two state elections
Simon Holmes à Court discusses Climate 200, the VIC & NSW state elections and the teals.
Michelle & Amanda 06.09.2022
Michelle discusses Tuesday’s RBA rate rise – the fifth increase in a row – as well as the imminent passage of Labor’s climate legislation, and industrial relations negotiations coming out of last week’s summit.
The jobs and skills summit, which concluded on Friday, has been a highly-managed exercise by the Albanese government in maximising policy and political productivity.
The final stage of the Coalition’s tax cuts, worth more than $240 billion over a decade, is now in the gun sights of many critics, who are calling on Anthony Albanese to dump his promise to deliver it.
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