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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Gillard looks to political gain after Peris pain
Michelle Grattan The Prime Minister has got her way, but what are the likely consequences?
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Barnaby scores a win with grace under pressure
Michelle Grattan The Nationals Senate leader is showing political poise.
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Barnaby is no longer the Joyce of old
Michelle Grattan A good test of a politician is how they handle thwarted ambition.
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.
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Disability scheming trips up premiers who should know better
Michelle Grattan Who would think - who would believe - that politicians could make a handful of disabled people the object of such shameless power play? Last week's behaviour by Liberal premiers over the plan to get...
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Disability scheming trips up premiers
Michelle Grattan Who would believe that politicians could make a handful of needy, disabled people the object of such shameless power play?
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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.
After Melbourne, PM lives to keep on struggling
Michelle Grattan The weekend's Melbourne byelection is much about what might have happened but didn't.
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Second best, but it's not worthless
Michelle Grattan Julia Gillard put in a strong and feisty performance in announcing her health deal, pushing back when questions were critical.
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Abbott's economic challenge
Michelle Grattan The Opposition Leader has set out to prove to voters that he is capable of running the nation's finances.
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Follow the leaders - on and off the bike
Michelle Grattan POLITICIANS play to their strength - of style or substance - and these can be idiosyncratic. Bike riding, for instance.
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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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Staggering under the load
Michelle Grattan A lot is riding on Sunday's COAG meeting, including the council's own future.
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Winds of change
Michelle Grattan Cyclone Yasi might have blown Tony Abbott's levy fight out of the water.
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Family deaths unsettling for the PM
Michelle Grattan Julia Gillard has a problem with authority - that is, her lack of it.
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Chilly Victorian winds could cause shivers in Canberra
Michelle Grattan There are messages for Julia Gillard as well as Greens, independents.
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This tiptoe along the precipice has an awful lot of downsides
Michelle Grattan It's not a good sign when the best way out may be a fresh election.
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Graceful Liberal leaves stage with a swipe
Michelle Grattan An emotional Petro Georgiou has said his formal goodbye to Parliament with an eloquent valedictory speech condemning both sides of politics for their "regression" on asylum seeker policy.
