Grattan on Friday: In tune with the summer, a week of wildness starts the parliamentary year
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
As this week showed, a clean end to a ministerial scandal is seldom possible. Even so, the aftershocks of the sports rorts affair have been major, and they’ll continue to plague the government.
Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack is still standing, but you can bet he’s a lot more unnerved than he’s willing to admit.
McCormack...