By Kevin Andrews - The Punch - Wednesday, 20 February 2013
There is an expression in American politics known as ‘inside the beltway’. It is a reference to the interstate highway that circles the capital city, Washington DC.
By Kevin Andrews - The Punch - Wednesday, 16 January 2013
We were greeted with the news this week that Centrelink staff have been ordered to make phone calls to more than 80,000 single parents to apologise after advising them to destroy their pensioner concession cards.
By Kevin Andrews - The Punch - Tuesday, 26 June 2012
There are two types of people who reach leadership positions. One type is driven by the hope or desire to succeed; the other by the fear of failure.
By Kevin Andrews - The Punch - Monday, 7 May 2012
At the same time, many social scientists have observed that most young adults wish to marry, ‘but not just yet.’ This attitude is reflected in demographic trends. The median age of marriage has increased significantly over the past few decades.
By Kevin Andrews - The Punch - Wednesday, 11 January 2012
The news that a municipal council in Melbourne has banned local cricketers from playing the popular, fast-paced Twenty20 in more than 40 parks raises questions about the increasingly litigious and risk-averse culture in which we live today.
By Kevin Andrews - The Punch - Wednesday, 28 December 2011
In a democratic polity like Australia, there is a compact between the governing party and the governed people.
By Kevin Andrews - Quadrant - Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Four years into the Rudd–Gillard Labor government, it is judged by the majority of the Australian people as a failure.
By Kevin Andrews - The Punch - Wednesday, 17 August 2011
The real test, when the riots subside, properties are restored and a semblance of order returns to the streets, is whether society has the courage to tackle the real causes.
By Kevin Andrews - Thursday, 21 July 2011
In a paper that I wrote last year, I noted that the Greens had been treated as a political curiosity for many years, but, “as a political party, they should be treated like any other political party and subjected to the same scrutiny.”
By Kevin Andrews - Agitate - Thursday, 7 July 2011
Edmund Burke once lamented that “the days of sophists, calculators and economists are upon us.”
