Amanda Vanstone

Amanda Vanstone

Amanda Vanstone is a former Howard government minister, and regular columnist.

Good times rolled and a spending government spent

Amanda Vanstone Gillard will find the people unforgiving at the ballot box.

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Does Labor really think it started our engagement with Asia?

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Amanda Vanstone Julia Gillard has missed the issues with this grab for economic power.

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Abbott's big problem is not his unpopularity, but his team

Amanda Vanstone Neither our Prime Minister nor our Opposition Leader is popular. That shouldn't worry us at all. Governing a country and taking it to a better place is not a popularity contest.

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It's too easy being Green

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Amanda Vanstone How do you brown off the Greens? Put them last on the ballot paper.

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From slip of the tongue to feeding frenzy

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Amanda Vanstone Journalists love to treat offhand comments like significant news events.

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Parents should have a say about who cares for their children

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Amanda Vanstone Abbott's proposal may have sounded elitist but the idea itself is worthy.