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Michelle Grattan (TC) : Peta Credlin, former chief of staff to the former prime minister, has remained high-profile and defiant to the end. Despite her changed circumstances Credlin went ahead with a panel discussion at Tuesday’s Women’s Weekly Women of the Future event. In one of those “oops” misfortunes that sometimes happen in publishing, Credlin […]
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If Peter Credlin had behaved as Peta did, he would have received a kicking too
September 24th, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Posted in World News 
Tags: Michelle Grattan, PETA, Peta Credlin, Peter Credlin, Weekly Women 
No Comments »Turnbull has moved beyond the Howard era in some respects, and returned to it in others
September 21st, 2015 Awake Goy Michelle Grattan (TC) : Malcolm Turnbull has gone for broke in his dramatic overhaul of the Coalition team. The new prime minister is using this moment of high authority to “renew” to the max – unlike Tony Abbott’s ill-judged timidity in the past. . Sam Mooy/AAP By his changes Turnbull has sent strong messages to […]
Posted in World News Tags: dramatic overhaul, John Howard, Malcolm Turnbull, Michelle Grattan, Tony Abbott No Comments »Malcolm Turnbull ousts Tony Abbott in dramatic party coup
September 15th, 2015 Awake Goy Michelle Grattan (TC) : Malcolm Turnbull has seized the prime ministership from Tony Abbott by 54 votes to 44 in a late-night vote that transforms the federal political landscape and presents Bill Shorten with potentially a much more formidable opponent. Malcolm Turnbull arrives to the Liberal partyroom for the spill vote with a modest group […]
Abbott juggles the political pressures on Syrian refugees
September 8th, 2015 Awake Goy Michelle Grattan (TC) : Tony Abbott is wedged between the hard right in the Coalition and commentariat on the one hand, and Liberal moderates, compassionate conservatives and pragmatists on the other, as the government considers how many refugees to accept from the Syrian crisis and the expansion of Australia’s overall humanitarian intake. An estimated 10,000 […]
Abbott on the nose in Canning but Liberals a nose in front
September 4th, 2015 Awake Goy Michelle Grattan (TC) : Julie Bishop, deputy Liberal leader and the most senior minister from Western Australia, has a special interest in the tough Canning byelection contest. Liberal candidate Andrew Hastie, a former SAS officer, is her “vice-captain’s pick”. Bishop told POST Newspapers, a suburban weekly that circulates in her electorate, that she first met […]
