Labor will still be scarred from its loss in 2019, but this time it is much better placed, if it maintains discipline and plays to its strengths.
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WIth Australia heading to the polls, this election is a contest between a desperate prime minister and an opposition leader who sometimes looks as though he has been promoted beyond his capability.
Australians brace themselves for a six-week campaign, with the Coalition starting behind Labor in the polls - but with much that can happen during the campaign.
Scott Morrison has won, in a Friday decision by the High Court, his long running battle over NSW Liberal party preselections, clearing the way for him to call the election.
University of Canberra Professional Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Associate Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics
With a change of government a real prospect according to the opinion polls, public servants are starting to gossip about what an Albanese administration would mean for them. For Canberra’s bureaucrats…
A slew of polls show only a modest lift for the government after the budget, and Labor favoured to win the election.
While it has often elected state Labor governments, Queensland has more often than not leaned to the Coalition on a federal level. And this year it may have a significant effect on the outcome.
Word from The Hill: Court saves Morison’s NSW preselections but what sort of campaign will Liberals run?
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with politics + society editor, Amanda Dunn
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Election expert Antony Green on the election map
Michelle Grattan speaks with the ABC's election analyst Antony Green about the national electoral map as the federal election nears
Labor’s two-party lead has been cut back slightly, to 54-46%, and its primary vote has fallen in the post-budget Newspoll. But Anthony Albanese would have a strong win if the latest poll were reproduced at the election.
University of Canberra Professional Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Associate Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics
It’s a paradox. The Morrison government, in deep trouble, has produced a budget that’s shamelessly designed to try to buy votes. But Labor, censorious in its rhetoric, has found itself having to embrace the budget’s central measures.
Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has made comprehensive reform of aged care the centrepiece of his budget reply delivered on Thursday night.
For Morrison, budget night itself had been soured by an extraordinarily strong, personal attack on him by one of his backbenchers.
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on the budget Labor can’t oppose
Michelle Grattan speaks with shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers about the Morrison government's recent budget.
Tuesday’s budget will provide $49.5 million for aged care training for existing workers and people who want to work in the sector.
Scott Morrison finally got his way at the weekend when the Liberal federal executive agreed to candidates for several key NSW seats being picked by a three-person committee rather than the rank and file having their say
Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Professor Paddy Nixon, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Canberra
Political observers hang out for when the prime minister will announce the election date, marking the start of the “campaign”.
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