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Shorten says grievance tribunal would not stop bank 'rip offs'

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Bill Shorten is continuing his pressure for a banking royal commission, by highlighting rising bank profits and escalating consumer complaints in recent years.

Shorten said the tribunal that some government MPs – including Liberal Warren Entsch and Nationals John Williams – are urging be set up to consider grievances would not solve the...

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Colin Barnett says same-sex marriage should be settled by parliament

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Malcolm Turnbull’s plebiscite on same-sex marriage has run into new problems, with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) recommending it should be delayed until next year and a Liberal premier saying parliament should decide the issue.

Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett, facing a difficult election on March 11, 2017, doesn’t...

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An historic handful of dirt: Whitlam and the legacy of the Wave Hill Walk-Off

  • Written by: Charlie Ward, Writer, Historian and PhD Candidate, Western Sydney University
imageVincent Lingiari looks on as Prime Minister Gough Whitlam swigs champagne after the symbolic handback of the Gurindji people's land.Rob Wesley-Smith, CC BY-NC-ND

Fifty years ago, on the morning of August 23, 1966, Vincent Lingiari led a walk-off of 200 Gurindji, Mudburra and Warlpiri workers and their families from a remote Northern Territory...

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Turnbull's backbench muscles up

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Malcolm Turnbull’s rhetoric this week has been designed to put the heat on Labor over budget repair. But the Prime Minister has three grassfires on his hands even before the new parliament starts on August 30 - and they’re all on his own backbench.

The issues are very different: pressure for action against the banks; bitter objections...

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