Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon is the political editor of The Age.
Who would be in your (political) team of the century?
Michael Gordon The late John Button had his own strategy for coping with the tedium of Parliament during his years as the government leader in the Senate.
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The national disgrace that is our asylum-seeker debate
Michael Gordon A month before Julia Gillard's mini-campaign in Sydney's outer west, Tony Abbott took his own mini-campaign to Melbourne's outer east, and reflected with justifiable pride on the diversity of...
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High-fives around PM reveal faulty grasp of Labor's reality
Michael Gordon Julia Gillard's inner sanctum hasn't had much to smile about lately, but on Tuesday her advisers were giving each other high-fives in the Prime Minister's office.
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Rudd's long cold shower heats up as leadership stress grows
Michael Gordon What's Kevin up to? It's the perennial question for those Labor MPs who voted for Julia Gillard in last year's leadership ballot, and for her advisers, but now it's being asked by some of Rudd's own...
A body blow
Michael Gordon The surprise departure of two of the Government’s most senior figures is a very bad look on two levels.
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PM's right to punt on Peris
Michael Gordon Julia Gillard's coup in securing one of Australia's most successful indigenous athletes as a Senate candidate invites predictable criticisms and involves some risk, but is justified by the two words...
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PM's captain's pick may end a sorry chapter in Labor history
Michael Gordon The long backstory to the PM using her 'captain's pick' to impose Nova Peris, an Olympic champion but a political novice, on Labor's NT branch helps explain why Warren Mundine was so quick to endorse...
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Sound-bite diplomacy no solution to asylum seeker quandary
Michael Gordon There is a simple way to end the impasse on asylum seeker policy, but Tony Abbott and his immigration spokesman refuse to embrace it. Why?
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Gillard plucks short lifeline from parliamentary jetsam
Michael Gordon Julia Gillard rescues something from the wreckage of parliamentary gridlock, and all but commits herself to enact what her expert group recommends.
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Washer's pain in the pursuit of a solution
Michael Gordon Mal Washer's emotional torment is the backstory to a paralysed Parliament.
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NT's tough love: helping hand or a heavy hand?
Michael Gordon An Aboriginal couple in their mid-20s are driving home to the central Australian community of Yuendumu when they are pulled over by the cops.
