Political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN believes artificial intelligence offers the Albanese government its best hope of lifting productivity, but balancing its economic promise against its risks will be no easy task.
A Western Australian byelection will provide an early test of One Nation’s electoral surge and its battle with Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN
Labor’s national conference may be billed as open and democratic, but the government will be working hard to keep AUKUS and Middle East tensions from taking centre stage, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN
Political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN on how the Liberal Party can't resist returning to damaging infighting and struggles to keep itself on track.
The Liberals' polling woes are deepening but Angus Taylor's party has no obvious way out of its malaise, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN
With One Nation leader Pauline Hanson's "monocultural" call triggering political gyrations, multicultural policy will be front and centre in coming months, requiring the government to respond, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN
By agreeing to the Greens' eight-week extension of the Senate inquiry into its NDIS legislation, the Labor government faces complications in implementing reforms, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN
Political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN finds more Australians are becoming wary of the economy, multiculturalism and the US in her analysis of the latest 2026 poll by the Lowy Institute.
Albanese government may have given ground on tax but there are two other core issues on which the Labor finds itself in policy quicksand, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
If you had to sum up One Nation leader Pauline Hanson's first appearance at the National Press Club on Wednesday in one word, it would be defiant, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
With Liberal Party's Jonno Duniam the latest politician to call quits, political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN writes how contemporary political life has become crazy due to hyper-professionalisation of the job.
Liberal Party senator for Tasmania and home affairs shadow minister Jonno Duniam will be missed as a good negotiator in the Senate and a strong media performer, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
