Politically, the government seems on a hiding to nothing in the penalty rates battle
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
On some days it’s best not to venture out. For Malcolm Turnbull, Monday was such a day. There was no way a visit to Bottles of Australia in the Canberra suburb of Hume was going to end well.
Turnbull was there to talk energy policy. But each of only four questions he took bounced off the day’s shocker Newspoll, with its 55-45% Labor...







