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 rams home the state of play
Michelle Grattan The blame game is starting in the Melbourne byelection, well before there's a result to cast blame about.
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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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Gillard looks to political gain after Peris pain
Michelle Grattan The Prime Minister has got her way, but what are the likely consequences?
It's time now to track the money
Michelle Grattan AT THE time of year when we look back and gaze forward, let's just cast an eye over one success and one failure (so far) of this remarkable Parliament, which still has time to do a few more things.
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Labor's long and winding road to reform
Michelle Grattan Labor Senator John Faulkner can always get public attention when he talks about party reform. But as he'd be the first to admit, it's quite another matter to get something meaningful done.
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Thinking outside the box: apply the same rules to all
Michelle Grattan A decade ago Father Frank Brennan, a high-profile Jesuit priest who is now professor of law at the Australian Catholic University, had a woman confess to him that she was a murderess.
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Vital to get this inquiry right
Michelle Grattan The federal government had little choice but to set up a royal commission into child sex abuse, given the horrific evidence, the extent of what has happened over many years, the cries of victims and...
Rudd talks up more Chinese opportunities
Michelle Grattan Kevin Rudd yesterday predicted the Chinese market would hold 'vast' opportunities for Australia's service industries as the resources boom cooled, in another high-profile appearance by the former...
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Jones forced to eat words
Michelle Grattan Shockjock's appalling comment becomes part of the wider battle between Labor and the Coalition.
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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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Vital questions unanswered in PM's ambitious plan
Michelle Grattan Moral crusade aside, Julia Gillard's schools announcement fell short of giving full satisfaction.
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The musings of Malcolm
Michelle Grattan Malcolm Turnbull's lament on the degradation of our politics is justified, but prescribing a solution is more difficult.
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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.
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A toothy smile behind Labor's dental plan
Michelle Grattan Reality checks are needed to balance the political hype.
Relief for Gillard but Labor still facing rout
Michelle Grattan When a 33 per cent primary vote is a cheer-up number for a PM, you know we are in unusual times. But for Julia Gillard that figure in today's Newspoll must be a big relief.
Gillard pursues blame game
Michelle Grattan Buoyed by her success in staring down Victoria and NSW over disability insurance, the PM is now trying a bold gamble to deflect the political heat of rising power prices.
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Duck-shoving blame games foil progress
Michelle Grattan The rift between the states and Canberra is unlikely to change.
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Liberal premiers put politics before the disabled
Michelle Grattan The Liberal premiers have let politics get in the way of helping the disabled.
