By Sussan Ley - Australian Polity - Volume 3 (Number 4)
Child care is a critical component of our modern economy.
By Brett Mason - Australian Polity - Volume 3 (Number 4)
Every decade or so, it seems, Labor rediscovers Asia like some sort of latter day Vasco da Gama.
By Scott Ryan - Australian Polity - Volume 3 (Number 4)
The discussion about legitimate restrictions on speech, and in particular the Coalition’s commitment to amend section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, has been a contentious, but important one.
By Kevin Andrews - Australian Polity - Volume 3 (Number 4)
The Brookings Institution economist, Isabel Sawhill, wrote this year that if individuals do just three things—finish High School, work full time and marry before they have children—their chances of being poor drop from fifteen per cent to two per cent.
By Andrew Bolt - Australian Polity - Volume 3 (Number 4)
In a sense this is a far more profound exercise but it seems to me in the same way extraordinary that we need to have a book to tell you that marriage is good.
By Kevin Andrews - Australian Polity - Volume 3 (Number 4)
When Peter Costello famously encouraged Australian families to have a child for Mum, one for Dad and one for the country, he was focused on a significant national challenge, the aging of the population.
By Kevin Andrews - Australian Polity - Volume 3 (Number 4)
As families throughout Australia have come together over the recent month to celebrate the festive season, many would have been sharing countless stories about how they are doing it tough and trying to make ends meet.
By Kevin Andrews - Australian Polity - Volume 3 (Number 3)
Recent events in the Middle East and North Africa have shown little encouragement to the notion that stability is returning to the region after the so-called Arab Spring.
By Kevin Andrews - Australian Polity - Volume 3 (Number 3)
For the tens of thousands of law-abiding, peaceful Muslims who call Australia home, the recent outbreak of violence in Sydney must have been disheartening. Even though commentators were quick to point out that most people of the Islamic faith in Australia are peaceful, nonetheless these events leave a pall over their entire community.
By John Key - Australian Polity - Volume 3 (Number 3)
I want to discuss my approach to politics, what drives me, and what the Government I lead in New Zealand has been doing.
