Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon is the political editor of The Age.
Michael Gordon
The remaking of Tony Abbott: a seven-month Liberal project
Michael Gordon Tony Abbott gave voters a glimpse of a very different prime ministership when he stepped up to the podium at the National Press Club.
Leaders battle it out in a race to win trust
Michael Gordon Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott face a common challenge before the September 14 election - to win the trust of disengaged voters who neither like nor trust them.
Respect the key issue in battle for votes
Michael Gordon JULIA GILLARD and Tony Abbott face a common challenge before the September 14 election - to win the respect of disengaged voters who neither like nor trust them.
Game on as Gillard pulls an election surprise
Michael Gordon Julia Gillard should be congratulated for nipping six months of election speculation in the bud - and calling a September 14 election.
Abbott all for diversity in campaign trail outing sealed with a kiss
Michael Gordon If Tony Abbott wanted evidence to support his claim that his party is the face of modern Australia, he found it in abundance over morning tea at the Mulgrave Country Club in Wheelers Hill on day...
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PM's captain's pick may end a sorry chapter in Labor history
Michael Gordon The long backstory to the PM using her 'captain's pick' to impose Nova Peris, an Olympic champion but a political novice, on Labor's NT branch helps explain why Warren Mundine was so quick to endorse...
Ready, set go: Nova Peris happy to take the baton
Michael Gordon Fifteen years ago, when Nova Peris first confided an interest in entering the national Parliament, the leading indigenous advocate Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue was decidedly unimpressed.
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PM's right to punt on Peris
Michael Gordon Julia Gillard's coup in securing one of Australia's most successful indigenous athletes as a Senate candidate invites predictable criticisms and involves some risk, but is justified by the two words...
30,000 refugees, more dead if we don't change, MPs told
Michael Gordon More than 30,000 people could come to Australia by boat next year and more lives will be lost at sea unless the opposition parties and the refugee sector support all of the recommendations of Gillard...
Act now or more lives will be lost, MPs told
Michael Gordon MORE than 30,000 people could come to Australia by boat next year and more lives will be lost unless the opposition parties and the refugee sector support all of the recommendations of the...
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Latest figures put more pressure on Abbott
Michael Gordon One deeply troubling question for the Coalition emerges from the last The Age/Nielsen Poll of the year: are Tony Abbott's dismal ratings now pulling down the Liberal primary vote - and threatening...
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Time for a new script after a year of tears and smears
Michael Gordon As morality tales go, they don't get much better, or shabbier, than the saga of how Peter Slipper came to, and was removed from, the most prestigious office in the national Parliament.
Asylum seeker adviser quits
Michael Gordon One of Australia's leading mental health experts has quit the Gillard government's advisory council on asylum seekers and detention after more than a decade, citing plans to indefinitely deny work...
Refugee's family reunion bid fails
Michael Gordon The High Court has dismissed a challenge by a teenage Afghan refugee whose bid to bring his mother and younger siblings to Melbourne was rejected by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship...
Teen refugee loses High Court reunion bid
Michael Gordon A teenage Afghan refugee has failed in a High Court bid to be reunited with his mother and four siblings, who are now living in Pakistan.
Call to boycott Sri Lankan cricket tour
Michael Gordon Critics of Sri Lanka's human rights record call for boycott of national cricket team's tour.
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Team Legal goes in to bat for desperate Sri Lankans
Michael Gordon Here's a poser to start a dinner table conversation: Name one Australian institution that has emerged from a year of dismal politics, dashed expectations and revelations of systemic failure with its...
Tow-back policy to apply to Sri Lanka
Bianca Hall and Michael Gordon Coalition government would tow boats back to Sri Lanka to help stem the flow of asylum seekers bound for Australia, immigration spokesman Scott Morrison says.
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Dirty politics stains the PM, Abbott and all of us
Michael Gordon The Coalition will pay a price for playing politics this way.
I'll get job done, Gillard declares
Michael Gordon and Michelle Grattan An emboldened Julia Gillard ends political year convinced she has her opponent's measure and the public's confidence that she has the strength and grit 'to get this job done'.
