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The University of Canberra’s Michelle Grattan and Michael de Percy discuss the week in politics.
Mathias Cormann cast Labor’s alternative policies as a brake on upward income mobility between generations.
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A Labor government’s attack on the successful would lead to an exit from Australia, Mathias Cormann has claimed.
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Michelle Grattan and Nicholas Klomp discuss the week in politics.
Bill Shorten has promised an all-out effort to promote a yes vote, while continuing to attack the ballot.
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While Bill Shorten has little at risk, his campaigning on same-sex marriage could come to Malcolm Turnbull’s aid.
Malcolm Turnbull increased his better prime minister rating from 43% to 46%, while Bill Shorten declined from 32% to 31%.
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Malcolm Turnbull goes into Monday’s meeting on same-sex marriage with no good option, in political terms, for dealing with the deep schism in the Liberals.
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The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
Donald Trump constantly invoked the idea of political correctness gone mad in his presidential campaign.
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Populist leaders not only attack the institutions of global capital, they also disregard the checks and balances of institutional democracy.
Bill Shorten says Labor’s targeting of trusts is about delivering a level playing field in tax.
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Labor has proposed a crackdown on discretionary trusts, which would raise $4.1 billion over the forward estimates and $17.2 billion over a decade.
Bill Shorten will seek to elevate the issue of a republic by pledging.
a policy for quick action.
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Bill Shorten’s policy for quick action on a republic contrasts with Malcolm Turnbull’s position.
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Politics podcast: Michael Cooney on an Australian republic
Michael Cooney says becoming a republic would give Australians important new symbols of national unity.
We need to consider whether values are the basis of beliefs about inequality.
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Who do you trust? Increasingly the answer seems to be nobody, especially when it comes to inequality.
The prime minister’s office denied suggestions that Malcolm Turnbull had given support to Bill Shorten’s proposal for four-year terms.
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Bill Shorten said the federal political system seemed ‘out of whack in that everything is so short term’.
The Referendum Council’s report is the conclusion of 18 months of consultation and discussion, including six months of regional dialogues with Indigenous people.
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Implicit in Malcolm Turnbull’s and Bill Shorten’s arguments that an Indigenous ‘voice to parliament’ would be a big change is the notion that it may be too difficult.
The fight over penalty rates is an issue made for Bill Shorten’s skill set.
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For Bill Shorten, cuts to Sunday penalty rates could become a pale version of WorkChoices.
Both the government and the opposition will warn about terrorists exploiting cyberspace.
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In a security update on the threats facing Australia at home and abroad, Malcolm Turnbull will say that an ‘online civil society is as achievable as an offline one’.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus has pushed for MPs to pass a bill to stop the phasing in of penalty rate cuts.
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The Fair Work Commission said reductions in rates were more significant in retail and pharmacy than in hospitality and fast food.
Labor’s figure of 700,000 is based largely on a McKell Institute report.
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In a recorded phone call to voters, Labor leader Bill Shorten said that “cuts to penalty rates will rip off 700,000 workers”. Is that true?
The constitutional convention is the latest step in the long-running debate on constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians.
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At Uluru, Indigenous representatives from across Australia will aim to reach consensus on what constitutional recognition means to them.
Malcolm Turnbull speaks at the NSW Liberal budget lunch.
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Only one in five believe they will be better off from the budget.
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The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.