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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Well executed? Or executed well?
Michelle Grattan Julia Gillard has made one hell of a call. But will it help her - or Tony Abbott?
James Ashby lost the battle but won the war
Michelle Grattan James Ashby has lost his court battle but he has won his wider war. In this dramatic case, the law and politics intersected.
Face it, Prime Minister: Slipper is not fit for high office
Michelle Grattan Gillard and her colleagues, women and men, should just say it. That Slipper is not a fit and proper person to hold this high office.
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The Prime Minister's man problem
Michelle Grattan Julia Gillard doesn't have enough men in her life.
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Gillard's man problem
Michelle Grattan Julia Gillard doesn't have enough men in her life. Male voters, that is. We've heard a lot about Tony Abbott's problem with women voters - the polls document it and MPs report it from their...
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Media Paradox: many more voices, much less reporting
Michelle Grattan Economics and readers' consumption habits have made newspapers the headline story.
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Game changer or game over?
Michelle Grattan Treasurer Wayne Swan declares that tomorrow - the day the carbon tax starts - will be a 'game-changer'. Tony Abbott insists it is the beginning of the ''python squeeze''.
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Turnbull insists on doing it his way
Michelle Grattan Malcolm Turnbull may or may not have become reconciled to his likely fate for next year.
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Caught in the thick of it
Michelle Grattan Peta Credlin deserves a starring role in an Australian version of West Wing, or The Thick of It.
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When air of mystery favours Abbott
Michelle Grattan It is now clear the government is at no risk of losing Craig Thomson before the election, but the ongoing mystery is good for the Coalition.
ACTU turns up heat on Gillard
Michelle Grattan The ACTU's decision to consider suspending the badly-behaving Health Services Union, of which embattled Labor MP Craig Thomson was secretary, is absolutely appropriate — on grounds of both principle...
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Fair Work's hospital handball leaves a mess for the DPP
Michelle Grattan What a total farce! Fair Work Australia, after its investigation of allegations of rorting by Craig Thomson and others has now presented the DPP with a load of unusable material.
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Fair Work farce leaves reputations in tatters
Michelle Grattan The fallout from the Craig Thomson-Health Services Union affair is spreading like a shower of dirty black soot over all coming near it.
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Draining it may be, but the Thomson fallout has its positives
Michelle Grattan On the bright side, debates on improving Parliament and unions have been spurred.
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Draining it may be, but the Thomson fallout has its positives
Michelle Grattan On the bright side, debates on improving Parliament and unions have been spurred.
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New referee for the numbers game
Michelle Grattan The opposition now has no excuses about how to handle its policy costings.
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After swotting up, a competent lawyer takes her first steps on the world stage
Michelle Grattan Gillard's globetrotting smacks of a diplomat in training as she takes help from a master.
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Coalition's charge ahead on Afghanistan ends in abject retreat
Michelle Grattan The opposition's policy flip-flops are worrying on an issue as vital as war.
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What's next for the loser?
Michelle Grattan A Liberal loss would herald a generational change, but for Labor it would be devastation.
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Tedious debate about a debate
Michelle Grattan The election seemed in danger of disappearing up its own entrails yesterday. First there was the debate about another Debate.
