As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes "Word from The Hill", where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation’s politics team. In this podcast Michelle and politics + society editor Amanda Dunn discuss the tenth interest rate rise and Jim Chalmers' response, the polling reaction to the superannuation tax hike, Anthony Albanese's…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes "Word from The Hill", where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation’s politics team. In this podcast Michelle and politics + society editor Amanda Dunn discuss the government's decision to double the tax on big super account earnings, Jim Chalmers' blunder when quizzed about taxing family…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
Adam Bandt aspired to power-sharing with a Labor government. That was never going to happen but, possessing the major slice of the balance of power in the Senate, the Greens have considerable potential muscle – at least in theory. In this podcast, we get a glimpse of the gap between Greens leader Adam Bandt's aspiration for ambitious reforms and the reality that the government is only giving concessions…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes "Word from The Hill", where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation’s politics team. In this podcast Michelle and politics + society editor Amanda Dunn discuss Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's Wednesday appearance at the National Press Club, where he spoke about security, broadly defined…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
Frank Brennan has been involved over decades in the big debates in Indigenous affairs. A Jesuit priest and an academic expert on the constitution, Brennan has advocated for recognising First Nations peoples in that document. Supplied/Frank Brennan, Author provided But he has concerns about the breadth of Anthony Albanese's proposed referendum question, arguing in his new book that its reference to…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
Kate Chaney was one of half a dozen new "teal" MPs elected to parliament last year, winning the previously solid Liberal seat of Curtin in Western Australia. "It's been a fascinating and steep learning curve over the last eight months," Chaney tells the podcast. "As a crossbencher, you really have to think very carefully about how you vote on every piece of legislation and try as much as possible to…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes "Word from The Hill", where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation’s politics team. In this podcast Michelle and politics + society editor Amanda Dunn discuss the landmark Defence Strategic Review, handed to the government on Tuesday, which Defence minister Richard Marles describes as the…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes "Word from The Hill", where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation's politics team. In this podcast Michelle and politics + society editor Amanda Dunn discuss the Reserve Bank's latest (but not last) interest rate rise, Lidia Thorpe's defection to the crossbench, which potentially benefits…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
Alcohol bans are being reimposed on Northern Territory Indigenous communities, as the federal and territory governments grapple with intractable problems in Alice Springs and elsewhere in the NT. The situation in Alice Springs and the surrounding communities has come into the national news at the same time as debate ramps up about this year's referendum for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. In this…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has rejected as "laughable" criticism he has turned his back on the Hawke-Keating reform era in his blueprint for "values-based capitalism". In this podcast Chalmers also reveals he spoke with Paul Keating while writing the essay, published in The Monthly. "Capitalism after the crises" looks at Australia's future following three international crises: the GFC, the pandemic, and…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
In this, our last podcast for 2022, we talk with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton. We spoke to each of them on the day the parliament was back to pass the energy package. Albanese, who met Chinese President Xi Jinping during the recent summit season, reveals he anticipates a further positive development in China's relationship with Australia within weeks. Asked whether…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes "Word from The Hill", where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. In this podcast Michelle and politics + society editor Amanda Dunn review the year, which is finishing with the surprise recall of federal parliament to pass the Albanese government's legislation to contain…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
Australians are currently confronting a cost of living crisis that includes soaring energy prices. Ministers have been working for weeks on a strategy to contain the prices of coal and gas, driven up by the fallout from the Ukraine war. It's the toughest, most complicated policy issue so far faced by Anthony Albanese, and it's involved some head-butting with the NSW and Queensland governments. In this…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes "Word from The Hill", where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. In this podcast Michelle and politics + society editor Amanda Dunn canvass federal parliament's final sitting week of the year, including the House of Representatives' censure of Scott Morrison, and the flurry…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
Six months after Scott Morrison was ousted, he remains a centre of attention, with parliament set to censure him on Wednesday over his multi-ministry power grab. In exquisite timing, journalist Niki Savva's book Bulldozed is released this week. It documents Morrison's style, which eventually shocked even those closest to him in government. "He's a very secretive character. He's distrustful. He's a…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
The Australian National University Dictionary Centre has just announced its word of the year is "teal". Senior researcher Mark Gwynn described it as an "easy choice". "The colour came to represent a movement of independent and strong female voices taking on the establishment." Monique Ryan, the member for the Melbourne seat of Kooyong, is the giant slayer of the movement, having defeated former treasurer…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes "Word from The Hill", where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. In this podcast Michelle and politics + society editor Amanda Dunn canvass the final sitting weeks of parliament, in which the government is battling with crossbencher David Pocock to secure its industrial…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
Victorians go to the polls on November 26, with the Andrews government seeking a third term. Labor is the clear favourite, but it is under pressure in a number of seats. The premier is a polarising figure, especially (although not only) as a result of the trials Melburnians endured with the prolonged harsh lockdowns during COVID. Victoria will be a fresh test of what we saw in the federal poll – the…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes "Word from The Hill", where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. In this podcast Michelle and politics editor Amanda Dunn discuss the significant thaw in Australia-China relations that's come with the Albanese-Xi meeting, held on the sidelines of the G20 in Bali. The last…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
Karen Andrews is the former home affairs minister and now shadows that portfolio, which includes cyber-security. With Australians shocked by hackers starting to post Medibank data on the dark web, in this podcast Andrews calls on the health insurer to provide more information. "There are some very serious questions that need to be put to Medibank about what it actually did." "They have sustained incredible…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes "Word from The Hill", where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. The clock is fast running down on the parliamentary year, but the government still has lots to do before Christmas. In this podcast Michelle and Amanda Dunn, the Conversation’s politics editor, discuss Labor's…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
The aftermath of the Albanese government's first budget has seen the political and policy debate turn sharply onto the spectre of households and businesses facing sky-high power prices over the next 18 months. The government is now scrambling to craft a policy to bring the domestic price of gas down. In this podcast, Michelle Grattan talks with Professor Bruce Mountain, Director of the Victoria Energy…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says of his first budget: "Inflation is the dragon we need to slay". Chalmers' worry about inflation was reinforced by Wednesday's release of the September quarter CPI, which showed inflation at 7.3%. In this podcast, we talk to Chalmers, shadow treasurer Angus Taylor, and the head of the Grattan Institute Danielle Wood. Among the topics we canvass are the budget's broad fiscal…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes "Word from The Hill", where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation's politics team. In this podcast, Michelle and politics + society editor Amanda Dunn canvass next week's budget, delivered in grim times for many households and set to slash Coalition programs, making room to implement the…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan
The government has flirted with, and now ruled out, changing the Stage 3 tax cut in the October 25 budget, which appears set to be dominated by some deep spending cuts. In the longer term, however, debate will continue over the need to reform Australia's tax system, as the calls on revenue to finance big programs increase. Meanwhile, the government is locked in a battle to get high domestic gas prices…
1 Host: Michelle Grattan