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 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.
By Kevin Andrews - Australian Polity - Volume 3 (Number 3)
Almost 200 years ago, the intrepid Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, sailed to the United States to observe a new form of government. Tocqueville’s prescient observations contained much praise about the democratic experiment unfolding before his eyes, but they also contained warnings.
By David Johnston - Australian Polity - Volume 3 (Number 3)
The funding cuts to Defence announced in the May Budget were so appalling that even Australia’s greatest ally and friend in the United States publicly gave the Gillard Government a dressing down.
By David Southwick - Australian Polity - Volume 3 (Number 3)
When governments make laws to protect us from ourselves, one of the greatest risks is that the unintended consequences of the policy are worse than the original harm. When these perverse consequences are greater than the original problem, its time for Government to reconsider its role.
By Christopher Pyne - Australian Polity - Volume 3 (Number 3)
Workplace relations is clearly another policy failure of the Rudd/Gillard Government. The economic damage caused by this failure is becoming more apparent as each week passes.
