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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US poll gives Labor audacity of hope
Michelle Grattan Good heavens - now Barack Obama is getting in on the misogyny act.
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Positive poll results give Gillard breathing space
Michelle Grattan Politics looked sweet to Julia Gillard when she woke up today to face the penultimate week of the full Parliament.
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Labor borrows Liberal poll ploy
Michelle Grattan Julia Gillard has borrowed from the John Howard 2004 election playbook to try to counter her trust problem, which Anna Bligh's spectacular demise has highlighted.
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Rudd gets asylum from a rogue poll
Michelle Grattan The refugee impasse is taking its toll, but PM has statistics on his side.
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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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Well executed? Or executed well?
Michelle Grattan Julia Gillard has made one hell of a call. But will it help her - or Tony Abbott?
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Belief in victory hard for party at war with itself
Michelle Grattan As Labor MPs gather in Canberra for the new parliamentary year, with the election date set and the ministry reshuffled, they are unsettled and uncertain.
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Surplus swansong leaves Labor in stormy waters
Michelle Grattan Wayne Swan's ditching of the promise the government made in 2010 - is a difficult and humiliating backflip. It is a broken promise of the first order.
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Season's bleatings at year's end
Michelle Grattan This will be a bruising parliamentary week, the last of an extraordinary and draining year that has strained voters' tolerance of politicians to the max.
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Wrapped in polls, Gillard defies the 'killing season'
Michelle Grattan This will be a bruising parliamentary week, the last of an extraordinary and draining year that has strained voters' tolerance of politicians to the max.
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When those boats just keep on coming
Michelle Grattan If treasurer Wayne Swan is worried that he mightn't be able to achieve that razor-thin surplus, Immigration Minister Chris Bowen has to be terrified that the asylum seeker boats won't stop.
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Gillard stonewalls opponents
Michelle Grattan It looks like being a happier Christmas for the Prime Minister than either Rudd or Abbott might have expected.
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As standards decline into talking points
Michelle Grattan In the Canberra blame game, no one comes out smelling like roses.
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Labor still struggling with the fallout
Michelle Grattan THE carbon tax probably peaked as an issue before the price started - indeed, its first three months have been an anti-climax.
Carbon tax could still cause damage
Michelle Grattan First three months an anti-climax but Labor will continue to struggle with its political damage.
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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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Abbott finds that a taut Coalition is not that easily taught
Michelle Grattan In his Quarterly Essay, David Marr writes that Tony Abbott is in a contest with his own body.
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Asian century's opportunities could be lost in translation
Michelle Grattan Australia has lessons to learn in how to engage with the region.
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Rudd messing with Gillard's head
Michelle Grattan KEVIN RUDD tweeted on Friday: ''Addressed about 900 students at Cannon Hill Anglican College on resilience.'' He mentioned a Paralympian. But one's mind immediately leapt to the man himself.
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Canberra's tale of two characters
Michelle Grattan Suddenly, political attention is concentrated on Tony Abbott's distant past and Kevin Rudd's immediate future.
