POLITICS

Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Wilkie invites independent candidates to call him for a chat about approaching a hung parliament Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Andrew Wilkie, MP for the Tasmanian seat of Clark, has “lived” a hung parliament. In 2010, Wilkie did a formal “deal” to support Julia Gillard. When...

Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison fails the ‘character’ test posed by his Warringah candidate Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra For months there has been a great deal of debate about Scott Morrison’s “character”. Now, in the controversy over Katherine Deves, the Liberal candidate for Warringah who Morrison refused to dump despite a...

I was there at the beginning. The moderate faction of the Liberal Party had its genesis at a meeting at Don Quixote Restaurant in Sydney, some time in the early 1980s. We saw ourselves as a vanguard in the party, a bunch of young turks eager to make our...

Migrants and refugees flooding into Europe have presented European leaders and policymakers with their greatest challenge since the debt crisis. The International Organization for Migration calls Europe the most dangerous destination for irregular migration in the world, and the Mediterranean the world's most dangerous border crossing. Distinguishing migrants from asylum...

Migrants and refugees flooding into Europe have presented European leaders and policymakers with their greatest challenge since the debt crisis. The International Organization for Migration calls Europe the most dangerous destination for irregular migration in the world, and the Mediterranean the world's most dangerous border crossing. Distinguishing migrants from asylum...

Migrants and refugees flooding into Europe have presented European leaders and policymakers with their greatest challenge since the debt crisis. The International Organization for Migration calls Europe the most dangerous destination for irregular migration in the world, and the Mediterranean the world's most dangerous border crossing. Distinguishing migrants from asylum...

Migrants and refugees flooding into Europe have presented European leaders and policymakers with their greatest challenge since the debt crisis. The International Organization for Migration calls Europe the most dangerous destination for irregular migration in the world, and the Mediterranean the world's most dangerous border crossing. Distinguishing migrants from asylum...

Migrants and refugees flooding into Europe have presented European leaders and policymakers with their greatest challenge since the debt crisis. The International Organization for Migration calls Europe the most dangerous destination for irregular migration in the world, and the Mediterranean the world's most dangerous border crossing. Distinguishing migrants from asylum...

Migrants and refugees flooding into Europe have presented European leaders and policymakers with their greatest challenge since the debt crisis. The International Organization for Migration calls Europe the most dangerous destination for irregular migration in the world, and the Mediterranean the world's most dangerous border crossing. Distinguishing migrants from asylum...

Former Liberal staffer and sexual assault advocate Brittany Higgins has called for “immediate action” on misconduct in Parliament, after a landmark Human Rights Commission report. Read the full Report here https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/document/publication/ahrc_set_the_standard_2021.pdf The Jenkins review has 28 recommendations to fix parliament’s toxic culture – will our leaders listen? Sonia Palmieri, Australian National University In the...