Michael Kroger
Pollie’s submarine joke sinks at Qantas’ Parisian soiree
Labor minister Patrick Gorman’s zinger about French submarines had Australian diplomats in Paris holding their breath.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and David Estcourt
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Liberal Party
Influential Liberal Michael Kroger at centre of heated corporate coup
Kroger is embroiled in a battle for control over the $52 million Mayfield Childcare fuelled in part by a contentious deal three years ago.
- by Paul Sakkal and Sumeyya Ilanbey
The Deves factor was meant to be a campaign masterstroke. It was a disaster
Even while he was upsetting the French and endorsing a polarising Katherine Deves, a window of opportunity opened for Scott Morrison. He missed it.
- by Peter Hartcher and James Massola
Dumped senator to run for Victorian Liberal presidency
Former Victorian senator Greg Mirabella will nominate for the role of state Liberal Party president after Robert Clark announced he would stand down ahead of November’s state election.
- by Annika Smethurst and Paul Sakkal
Prime Minister John Elliott? He’d have ‘blown up the country’
In September 1988, a group of plotters met to draw up a plan for John Elliott, then-Liberal Party federal president, to become prime minister.
- by Rob Harris
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‘Make your point without stooping so low’: Ita Buttrose calls out Michael Kroger’s cancel-culture attack
Responding to Michael Kroger’s outrageous outburst this week, Ita told me she has deep concerns about the tone of public debate.
- by Peter FitzSimons
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ABC wars
ABC bosses block Four Corners episode linking PM to QAnon figure
ABC management has knocked back an upcoming Four Corners episode that focuses on Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
- by Zoe Samios
‘Out of line and a little disrespectful’: ABC director Joe Gersh defends chair Ita Buttrose as Porter criticism mounts
“Would I prefer a world in which these allegations were never made? Yes. But that’s not my choice,” the ABC board director said.
- by Zoe Samios
Kennett to seek bloodless transition in return to state politics
Jeff Kennett will meet next week with Victorian Liberal Party president Robert Clark to discuss a friendly takeover of the party’s administration.
- by Chip Le Grand
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Yasser Arafat
My brush with Romania's notorious Ceausescus
Michael Kroger recalls meeting Nicolae Ceaușescu's son at a South Melbourne barbecue in 1977, as he visits Romania on the 30th anniversary of the despotic leader's execution.
- by Michael Kroger
Libs set for Victorian intervention as poll review pinpoints weak link
Review into Scott Morrison's election victory warns federal intervention into Victorian Liberals is needed or it faces a 'worryingly narrow' path to re-election.
- by Rob Harris
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