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MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 1:00 pm on April 28, 2021 | 36 comments The Morrison Government’s bungled vaccine rollout faces further hurdles with almost two thirds of Australians unwilling to get vaccinated, according to the latest Essential Poll: Australians are reluctant to take the COVID vaccine. One in six Australians also said they never intend to get vaccinated, with another 42% open to the idea but under no sense of urgency. Last week, health department secretary Bre...

Sarah Cameron Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas. Yesterday, thousands of Australians marched around the country, angry and fed up at the treatment of women. In Canberra, they formed a ring of protest around Parliament House. This comes after Melbourne academic and entrepreneur Janine Hendry wondered how many “extremely disgruntled” women it would take to link arms around parliament to tell the government “we’ve had enough” (the answer is about 4,000). The marches...

How rape allegations among Australia’s political elite reignited its #MeToo movement When Australia’s attorney general last week outed himself as the minister accused of raping a 16-year-old girl in 1988, his denial was emphatic. “The things that I have read did not happen, and to suggest that they could be forgotten is ridiculous,” said Christian Porter, who oversees legal affairs and national security, before starting a period of mental health leave. For Prime Minister Scott Morrison,...

A double-digit deterioration in perceptions of Scott Morrison’s personal attributes has been wholly driven by female voters

Some in the party, it seems, have learned only to emulate the mistakes of previous generations, believing it will somehow deliver a different result. There is a gradual escalation of the thinking of self-saboteurs. Convinced that they deserve government but that the party is unjustly held back by circumstances, the doubters first look for excuses outside the party. They blame the milieu created by Covid. They still resent the leader and his team for failing to launch policies or attack the gove...

But releasing our quarterly two-party-preferred “plus” sequence this week, it strikes me that in the current environment, the horse race could have an opposite, stabilising effect. Despite ongoing and strong approval of the federal government’s response to the pandemic, the stated voting intention over the past three months has been lineball, if not slightly in favour of Labor. This is not to fall into the well-worn trap of saying “Labor is ahead”. Until an election is ...

Bill Shorten will criticise Anthony Albanese’s policy agenda with faint praise – and suggest Labor must be bolder.