Paul Bongiorno
Unions wary as Parliament is set to give Scott Morrison his head
Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter has got it right. There is no will in the Parliament to stand in the way of...
Politics helps reality dawn on the government
On Sunday night, the Prime Minister ended a news conference saying he was not going to respond to what the Labor Party...
Besieged PM caught in the coronavirus swamp, up to his neck in alligators
Scott Morrison’s opening statement to Parliament’s coronavirus crisis sitting was as dramatic as it was heartfelt. “Meeting this challenge is bigger than...
Morrison’s coronavirus response not what the doctor ordered
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is stuck between the rock of the economy and the hard place that is the health of the...
After years of criticising Labor, Scott Morrison faces a difficult stimulus dilemma
The Morrison government is scrambling to come up with an economic stimulus package that doesn’t look or sound like the Rudd Labor...
PM Scott Morrison trembles on the brink of stimulus
For well over a year now the Morrison government has ignored the pleas of the Reserve Bank to get serious about stimulating...
Angus Taylor plays funny business with zero emissions target
Angus Taylor, Australia’s energy and emissions reduction minister – yes that is his real title – is counting on the fact he...
‘Merry Crisis’: Scott Morrison’s government by assertion is wearing thin
A measure of the dreadful hole the Morrison government has dug for itself came at the weekend’s Fire Fight Australia benefit concert....
The climate wedge deepens for Scott Morrison as rebels toy with power
Australia’s black summer, as Scott Morrison calls it, has dramatically changed the politics of climate change. But nobody has told the Nationals....
Barnaby Joyce to test his support with unrepentant Nationals
Barnaby Joyce’s push to return to the leadership of the Nationals and the deputy prime ministership will face its acid test in...