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Amanda Vanstone

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The territory is in shambles. The Commonwealth may need to step in

My last column for this masthead sought to highlight how the wide criteria for claiming indigeneity was perhaps unintentionally leading to a lack of...

10.04.2024 8

The Examiner

Amanda Vanstone

The territory is in shambles. The Commonwealth may need to step in

My last column for this masthead sought to highlight how the wide criteria for claiming indigeneity was perhaps unintentionally leading to a lack of...

10.04.2024 8

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

Obsessed with looking inclusive, who does this box-ticking actually serve?

Sometimes, when people are genuinely trying to do the right thing, they get it wrong. $0/ (min cost $0) Login or signup to continue reading...

27.03.2024 7

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

Obsessed with looking inclusive, who does this box-ticking actually serve?

Sometimes, when people are genuinely trying to do the right thing, they get it wrong. $0/ (min cost $0) Login or signup to continue reading...

27.03.2024 5

The Examiner

Amanda Vanstone

Another case of undergrad politics overruling clear-headed science

Labor is in a sticky quagmire with nuclear power. Chris Bowen is quick to disparage Peter Dutton's endorsement of a shift to nuclear. $0/ (min cost...

13.03.2024 6

The Examiner

Amanda Vanstone

Another case of undergrad politics overruling clear-headed science

Labor is in a sticky quagmire with nuclear power. Chris Bowen is quick to disparage Peter Dutton's endorsement of a shift to nuclear. $0/ (min cost...

13.03.2024 5

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

Some questions are more interesting than 'who is it?'

ASIO chief Mike Burgess used very strong words. Understandably current and former politicians, yours truly included, were aghast at the cloud now cast...

03.03.2024 6

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

Wong and I are chalk and cheese. But here's where we've found common ground

Next week, on Wednesday, Penny Wong will become the longest serving female cabinet minister since Federation. That would have been a long journey,...

28.02.2024 6

The Examiner

Amanda Vanstone

Wong and I are chalk and cheese. But here's where we've found common ground

Next week, on Wednesday, Penny Wong will become the longest serving female cabinet minister since Federation. That would have been a long journey,...

28.02.2024 7

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

Did you watch Nemesis? Let me add some perspective

The recent series Nemesis was a bridge too far for me. Any industry or profession's congratulatory navel gazing is desperately unattractive. $0/ (min...

14.02.2024 7

The Examiner

Amanda Vanstone

Did you watch Nemesis? Let me add some perspective

The recent series Nemesis was a bridge too far for me. Any industry or profession's congratulatory navel gazing is desperately unattractive. $0/ (min...

14.02.2024 8

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

How did infiltration go UN-seen?

Penny Wong must be wondering why anybody ever said life wasn't meant to be easy. $1/ (min cost $8) Login or signup to continue reading For some...

31.01.2024 8

The Examiner

Amanda Vanstone

How did infiltration go UN-seen?

Penny Wong must be wondering why anybody ever said life wasn't meant to be easy. $1/ (min cost $8) Login or signup to continue reading For some...

31.01.2024 5

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

A world of no cuts is impossibly stupid. We have to praise the tough calls

Maybe we need to change our attitude. Let's stop cheering governments for allocating our money to what they think are good ideas. $1/ (min cost $8)...

17.01.2024 9

The Examiner

Amanda Vanstone

A world of no cuts is impossibly stupid. We have to praise the tough calls

Maybe we need to change our attitude. Let's stop cheering governments for allocating our money to what they think are good ideas. $1/ (min cost $8)...

17.01.2024 8

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

I'd back a University of Life graduate over a know-all leader every day

Life is out there to be lived. If you can be bothered, look up and read Theodore Roosevelt's famous speech, The strenuous life . It's a pearler. You...

03.01.2024 10

The Examiner

Amanda Vanstone

I'd back a University of Life graduate over a know-all leader every day

Life is out there to be lived. If you can be bothered, look up and read Theodore Roosevelt's famous speech, The strenuous life . It's a pearler. You...

03.01.2024 10

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

Christmas not all it's cracked up to be for govt. It's got some big problems

Down Under "The Summer" carries an illusion of holidays. The school year ends, then Christmas followed by New Year, plenty of cricket and tennis and...

20.12.2023 10

The Examiner

Amanda Vanstone

Christmas not all it's cracked up to be for govt. It's got some big problems

Down Under "The Summer" carries an illusion of holidays. The school year ends, then Christmas followed by New Year, plenty of cricket and tennis and...

20.12.2023 10

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

Tell Labor they're dreaming: We should've gone nuclear years ago

"Let the bastards freeze in the dark," was the quip of Sir John Carrick, a senior minister in the Fraser government, in response to the refusal of the...

06.12.2023 6

The Examiner

Amanda Vanstone

Tell Labor they're dreaming: We should've gone nuclear years ago

"Let the bastards freeze in the dark," was the quip of Sir John Carrick, a senior minister in the Fraser government, in response to the refusal of the...

06.12.2023 4

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

The govt, APS and the media are hilariously out of touch with Australia

For three distinct but related groups the referendum result should be a serious wake-up call. For the government the result was and remains...

22.11.2023 9

The Examiner

Amanda Vanstone

The govt, APS and the media are hilariously out of touch with Australia

For three distinct but related groups the referendum result should be a serious wake-up call. For the government the result was and remains...

22.11.2023 6

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

Multicultural means you come and share your culture, not impose it

Former prime minister John Howard recently expressed some misgivings about multiculturalism. It's worth in the context of that discussion to look at...

08.11.2023 7

The Examiner

Amanda Vanstone

Multicultural means you come and share your culture, not impose it

Former prime minister John Howard recently expressed some misgivings about multiculturalism. It's worth in the context of that discussion to look at...

08.11.2023 5

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

The bragging confirmation bias of 'yes' voters

The lyrics to Simon and Garfunkel's The Boxer contain the lines "Still a man hears what he wants to hear / And disregards the rest". There's been a...

25.10.2023 5

The Examiner

Amanda Vanstone

The bragging confirmation bias of 'yes' voters

The lyrics to Simon and Garfunkel's The Boxer contain the lines "Still a man hears what he wants to hear / And disregards the rest". There's been a...

25.10.2023 5

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

Here's five ways to close the gap without a Voice

Polling can be wrong but it certainly looks like Australia is going to reject the Voice. It was a terrible decision to commit to a referendum...

11.10.2023 5

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

Cancel culture is the new Stalinism and we're all losing

Say the wrong thing and your career might be seriously damaged - if not over. There's no court where the allegations against you are made out, no...

27.09.2023 6

The Examiner

Amanda Vanstone

Cancel culture is the new Stalinism and we're all losing

Say the wrong thing and your career might be seriously damaged - if not over. There's no court where the allegations against you are made out, no...

27.09.2023 7

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

This is an all-time low from the 'yes' campaign

Sometimes weird things happen in politics and you almost have to slap your face before you look again to check if you've missed something. So it has...

22.09.2023 8

The Examiner

Amanda Vanstone

This is an all-time low from the 'yes' campaign

Sometimes weird things happen in politics and you almost have to slap your face before you look again to check if you've missed something. So it has...

22.09.2023 5

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

We're almost unanimous about the Voice's purpose. It's about how we get there

Maybe surprisingly we head toward a referendum on the Voice proposal with quite a degree of agreement, if not unanimity. Not that you would...

13.09.2023 8

The Examiner

Amanda Vanstone

We're almost unanimous about the Voice's purpose. It's about how we get there

Maybe surprisingly we head toward a referendum on the Voice proposal with quite a degree of agreement, if not unanimity. Not that you would...

13.09.2023 6

Canberra Times

Amanda Vanstone

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