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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Political science: altering Abbott's polarity from negative to positive
Michelle Grattan Expect some rebranding as the Coalition campaign begins.
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But seriously, get ready for Mr Positive
Michelle Grattan Tony Abbott is likely to be residing in the prime minister's office later this year.
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Coalition in another tangle thanks to Hockey
Michelle Grattan LAST year the opposition got into a complete tangle over its position on the surplus, finally committing itself to delivering one in each of its first three budgets.
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Opposition gets itself in a tangle again over budget surpluses
Michelle Grattan Last year the opposition got itself into a complete tangle over its position on the surplus.
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Playing cat and mouse on inquiry
Michelle Grattan Investigations into the Slipper and AWU affairs would be bad for both sides of politics and a complete waste of money.
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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Abbott's casual approach to Ashby issue indicative
Michelle Grattan Tony Abbott has scored a notable own goal by admitting that he's been vigorously defending Mal Brough without having read the court judgment in the Ashby sexual harassment case that strongly...
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Headaches for Abbott as tactics falter
Michelle Grattan Stressing the need for unity during his address to his troops on Tuesday, Tony Abbott told the MPs that if they ever needed to get a message to him, they should just call direct - he would always...
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Figures frenzy turns spotlight on Canberra's bureaucracy
Michelle Grattan IT WAS a government sting, and then an opposition counter-sting, which left the public servants in the federal Treasury feeling the pain.
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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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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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Abbott's strength, Gillard's weakness
Michelle Grattan Tony Abbott is negative but a ferocious opponent.
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The waiting game goes on
Michelle Grattan Kevin Rudd was active on the Syrian crisis this week, reporting to Parliament and calling in that country's senior diplomat.
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Government's mixed messages confusing hearts and mines
Michelle Grattan The Treasurer's super rich spray threatens Labor's wider pro-business campaign.
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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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A strange sense of entitlement
Michelle Grattan Joe Hockey's politically dangerous contribution to the welfare debate is a gift to the struggling Gillard government.
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Gillard acts fast to create bold legacy
Michelle Grattan If Julia Gillard gets the aged care reform plans she wants, she'll have something of which to be proud.
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Pushed to the limit, Bob goes in guns blazing
Michelle Grattan ON THE Canberra political battlefield, the media are in the gunsights and, rather surprisingly, it's Greens leader Bob Brown firing some of the biggest bullets.
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Abbott will have to crack whip as the discipline of campaigning is forgotten
Michelle Grattan Discontent is likely to grow, especially if the frontbenchers don't perform up to scratch.
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The road to redemption
Michelle Grattan Rudd and Turnbull are back, and their leaders will have a job keeping a rein on them.
