Michelle Grattan
Michelle Grattan is the political editor of The Age. In 2008, she shared the Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award with Laurie Oakes. She edited the books 'Reconciliation' and 'Australian Prime Ministers' (2000), and wrote 'Back on the Wool Track' (2004).
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PM's juggling act
Michelle Grattan Kevin Rudd has made Australia Day policy speeches around the nation on each of the past five days, with two to come.
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In Howard's steps
Michelle Grattan Tony Abbott has taken much from his political mentor, but it would be wrong to think he is just John Howard by default. Abbott's conservatism, like that of Howard, has a strong streak of pragmatism.
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It's time McKew outgrew ministerial L-plates
Michelle Grattan Parliamentary secretaries, even high-profile rising stars, can find themselves in a political no man's land.
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Bump on the head is least of Barnaby's problems
Michelle Grattan The new Opposition finance spokesman will have to fight his instincts and tread softly in his new role.
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Scare campaign may be Abbott's best chance of troubling Rudd
Michelle Grattan Tony Abbott might have a chat with Andrew Peacock sometime over the summer. The new Opposition Leader's goal appears to be a 1984-type campaign, when Peacock ran a highly charged ''scare''.
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Leader courts the revived and the survived
Michelle Grattan Tony Abbott's front bench is kind to Howard refugees, the new leader's right-wing power base, the cockies and a few lucky dip winners, but up to attack as backward looking.
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Internal debate gets uglier
Michelle Grattan Malcolm Turnbull has declared a jihad on Tony Abbott over climate change, and it will be ugly.
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Weekend poll results give Abbott a running start
Michelle Grattan In politics nothing can be taken for granted. If Kevin Rudd had been thinking of a March-April election - which he probably wasn't - he won't be now.
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Misstep could give Hockey wrong end of the stick
Michelle Grattan The shadow treasurer must be careful that his misjudgment in last week's spill doesn't damage his eventual leadership aspirations.
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A day that changed everything
Michelle Grattan Tony Abbott's ascension to the Liberal leadership has hit the capital like a hurricane, leaving no one untouched.
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Rudd has trigger - but a March election unlikely
Michelle Grattan The Government finally has a 'trigger' for a March election but - unless something happens out of the blue - don't expect it to face the people until later in the year.
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Hockey will have to make best of anointment
Michelle Grattan Malcolm Turnbull crashed his way into the leadership, just as he had arrived in Parliament after a preselection assault on a sitting Liberal MP.
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Liberals floundering in chaos
Michelle Grattan The Liberal Party is a madhouse. Malcolm Turnbull amazed even the Turnbull sceptics by his wild performance yesterday.
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Push comes to shove as Opposition party sours
Michelle Grattan Matters of style and substance aside, Malcolm Turnbull's rush to take the top job was bad judgment.
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Embattled leader makes a desperate last stand
Michelle Grattan Malcolm Turnbull has dramatically rolled the dice, to keep faith with his commitment to action on climate change and to keep the word of the Liberal Party.
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Dangerous double life of Grech
Michelle Grattan If you were writing a novel he'd be a difficult character to construct. A senior Treasury official, slightly odd but competent, credible and respected, who has a separate secret persona as a...
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Turnbull's wait to walk the green mile
Michelle Grattan Many Liberals believe Malcolm Turnbull's 48-35 defeat of the spill move was very likely just a stay of execution.
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Kamikaze move for leader
Michelle Grattan Malcolm Turnbull was close to being dead meat last night. Mostly, he has brought his problems on himself - over recent months and during one of the most bizarre days in modern Liberal history.
Kamikaze move for leader
Michelle Grattan Malcolm Turnbull was close to being dead meat last night. Mostly, he has brought his problems on himself — over recent months and during one of the most bizarre days in modern Liberal history.
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Leader bloodied as Libs tear themselves apart
Michelle Grattan Malcolm Turnbull is confident he has the numbers to get Liberal support for Kevin Rudd's emissions trading scheme. But the cost is huge.
