Podcast with Michelle Grattan: three states in lockdown

Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversations’s politics team.

In this episode, politics + society editor Amanda Dunn and Michelle talk about where we never expected to be in mid 2021 – 13 million people locked down in three states.

They also canvass the “car park rorts ^[1]” in which marginal electorates were brazenly targeted in a $389 million car park construction program for the 2019 election, and if such misconduct will ever be stemmed.

Gaena ^[2], Blue Dot Sessions, from Free Music Archive.

References

^{^} car park rorts (theconversation.com)
^{^} Gaena (freemusicarchive.org)

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