By Julie Bishop - Australian Polity - Volume 4 (Number 1)
The first official overseas trip taken by China’s new President Xi Jinping has revealed a number of key priorities for China in coming years.
By Dan Tehan - Australian Polity - Volume 4 (Number 1)
Much has been written about the Asian century and how capitalising on it will be paramount to securing Australia’s future.
By Fiona Nash - Australian Polity - Volume 4 (Number 1)
It would seem preposterous to contract our nation’s defence to a foreign country – but this is what we could be potentially doing with our most precious resource – food.
By Patrick Parkinson - Australian Polity - Volume 4 (Number 1)
The federal Government’s ill-fated Exposure Draft of the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill was criticised by a diverse range of organisations. While there were many criticisms of the Bill, in the main there were three major design flaws in the Bill: duplication, overreach and lack of respect for free speech.
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.
