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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Thomson charged, but Abbott less than arresting
Michelle Grattan With Julia Gillard on the back foot, Tony Abbott makes a foolish ministry pledge.
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Kinder, gentler politics? Not a chance
Michelle Grattan CHRISTOPHER PYNE didn't exactly promise kinder, gentler politics in canvassing last week plans for parliamentary reform under an Abbott government.
James Ashby lost the battle but won the war
Michelle Grattan James Ashby has lost his court battle but he has won his wider war. In this dramatic case, the law and politics intersected.
Gillard takes a big slipper to Abbott over Ashby judgment
Michelle Grattan The cynic might say that Justice Steven Rares has answered most of the questions about Brough, whom he found plotted with James Ashby against Peter Slipper.
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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.
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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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As standards decline into talking points
Michelle Grattan In the Canberra blame game, no one comes out smelling like roses.
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No ordinary tactic from Abbott camp
Michelle Grattan Tony Abbott is deploying every female ally he can find to attack his perceived ''woman problem''.
Face it, Prime Minister: Slipper is not fit for high office
Michelle Grattan Gillard and her colleagues, women and men, should just say it. That Slipper is not a fit and proper person to hold this high office.
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Misogyny war has no winner
Michelle Grattan The PM may have made a hero of herself to some feminists but she did the wrong thing in trying to protect the sexist Peter Slipper.
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Oakeshott's code of limited value
Michelle Grattan When Parliament returns, it will debate Rob Oakeshott's proposal for House of Representatives MPs to have a code of conduct.
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Canberra capers fail screen test
Michelle Grattan Paul Keating strongly opposed the televising of Parliament. On Wednesday, Tony Abbott might have agreed with him.
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Vindicated after the agony of a lifetime
Michelle Grattan Tim Flannery did a gutsy and honourable thing when he wrote his mea culpa over the Azaria Chamberlain case, which appeared in Friday's Sydney Morning Herald.
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A tale of two standards
Michelle Grattan Julia Gillard's ministers will be trying their hardest to keep the heat on the Coalition over who did what when in the saga of Peter Slipper and his staffer.
The Year of Living Dangerously
Michelle Grattan The allegation that News Ltd was actively involved in the intrigue against Speaker Peter Slipper is not just giving Labor ammunition against its bete noire media company but feeding into the debate...
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From Brough to Palmer, the Queenslanders are at it again
Michelle Grattan What is it about the conservatives in Queensland? They can deliver a heap of seats but they always seem to bring trouble, too, for their Canberra crew.
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Turnbull insists on doing it his way
Michelle Grattan Malcolm Turnbull may or may not have become reconciled to his likely fate for next year.
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Gillard's credibility slips away
Michelle Grattan With time running out, the PM must lift Labor's primary vote above the 30 per cent mark.
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PM wins votes but not voters
Michelle Grattan Julia Gillard receives little credit for getting major legislation through a difficult Parliament.
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Sleaze the day: the tactic that now dogs ALP
Michelle Grattan It's hard to go beyond that old cliche about dogs and fleas when considering the latest bizarre Peter Slipper twist, which has the government reeling yet again.
