Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon is the political editor of The Age.
Bounce in the polls too much to expect
Michael Gordon Comeback the one thing Wayne Swan will not be expecting from his sixth budget.
Michael Gordon
From class wars to classroom war: the Gillard battle plan
Michael Gordon Dejected federal Labor MPs have something positive to say to their alienated, disengaged and even hostile constituents.
No pain no gain: PM talks budget options
Michael Gordon Julia Gillard's warning underscores reality that selling this pre-election budget will be even harder than framing it.
PM's comeback now consigned to history
Michael Gordon Julia Gillard's government is now trapped in a vortex of miserable morale, low expectations and sullied credibility - almost all of its own making and all neatly reflected in another shocker...
A clean start for the PM, but is the election already lost?
Michael Gordon Simon Crean has removed the threat of Kevin Rudd and gave Julia Gillard's prime ministership a fresh start.
Hard slog for PM to get Labor back into the game
Michael Gordon It is a measure of Labor's predicament that the good news for the government in the latest Age/Nielsen poll is that Julia Gillard's - and the party's - standing did not take another hit after yet...
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Rudd's long cold shower heats up as leadership stress grows
Michael Gordon What's Kevin up to? It's the perennial question for those Labor MPs who voted for Julia Gillard in last year's leadership ballot, and for her advisers, but now it's being asked by some of Rudd's own...
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High-fives around PM reveal faulty grasp of Labor's reality
Michael Gordon Julia Gillard's inner sanctum hasn't had much to smile about lately, but on Tuesday her advisers were giving each other high-fives in the Prime Minister's office.
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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.
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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.
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Disability: we've got the sense, now for the dollars
Michael Gordon When Jenny Macklin stepped up to the podium at the National Press Club last month to talk up the country's first national disability insurance scheme, an elephant lurked ominously at the back of the...
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The dogs of war replace Canberra's civilised pack
Michael Gordon There was no tougher, more uncompromising fighter on the conservative side of politics, but John Howard was always prided himself on being civil.
Our politics has entered a new phase of uncertainty
Michael Gordon In this fluid political environment, stand by for more moments to make you wince.
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Is this the beginning of a Gillard revival?
Michael Gordon Julia Gillard isn't big on admitting to personal failings. Truth is, she is at her best when her back's against the wall and she's conceding absolutely nothing.
