Michelle Grattan

On Tuesday the government will present its latest implementation plan for Closing the Gap, writes Michelle Grattan.

The Intergenerational Report puts a long lens on the nation’s future, looking at the implications of demographic changes and covering a broad range of economic and social areas.

With polling showing support for the Voice slipping, the government is desperate to arrest the slide.

As Labor’s recent period of extraordinary internal harmony shatters, former cabinet minister Nicola Roxon has excoriated Kevin Rudd, forensically detailing his bad behaviour and declaring he should leave parliament for Labor’s good.

Tony Abbott is no doubt enjoying former minister Nicola Roxon’s blast against her old political boss Kevin Rudd.

With the 44th Parliament opening on Tuesday, the next phase of the Abbott government begins.

Almost all the politicians sworn in today for the new Parliament are much constrained, glued to the parties that put them there.

The Abbott government has been firing rhetorical bullets at friends and enemies alike in the last few days.

Tony Abbott has been in office six months, and this week marks 20 years since he was elected to parliament.

The Productivity Commission has issued a challenge to Tony Abbott by saying that some funds from his expensive proposed paid parental leave scheme should be redirected to child care.

Two characteristics of this government are that it regularly overreaches and that where possible it shies away from transparency and accountability.

Four years after her famous “misogyny speech” attacking Tony Abbott, and when an extraordinary American presidential campaign is featuring gender in both a good and a bad way, Julia Gillard reflected this week on her experience as a woman at the top.