Amanda Vanstone

Amanda Vanstone

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

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It's Gillard who's slinging mud in this 'parliament of filth'

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Amanda Vanstone On the issue of trashing rivals, the PM says one thing and does another.

Good times rolled and a spending government spent

Treasurer Wayne Swan

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

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We don't need to go to war in political debate

Canberra

Amanda Vanstone Knock 'em down politics belittles our democracy.

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Look to ordinary Australians for inspiration, not our parliamentarians

Amanda Vanstone One of the 52 weeks of 2013 has already gone. With only 51 to go you need to get cracking if you want 2013 to be a great year.

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Stop whingeing and get up early to beat the January blues

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Amanda Vanstone One of the 52 weeks of 2013 has already gone. With only 51 to go you need to get cracking if you want it to be a great year.

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PM's gravitas deficit exposed as the boys demote Wong

Penny Wong

Amanda Vanstone Gillard sees herself as a hero of women. So what happened to the senator?

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The PM, the shock jock, sexism and a whole lot of hypocrisy

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Amanda Vanstone What do Julia Gillard and Alan Jones have in common? Undoubtedly they have many points of difference, but they have a few things in common.

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It's too easy being Green

Julia Gillard and Bob Brown

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

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Sadly, this lady is for turning

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Amanda Vanstone Julia Gillard bungled her moment to stand as steely as Margaret Thatcher.

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Abbott's stance on gay marriage looks like strong-arm tactics

Amanda Vanstone The leader should know MPs can feel aggrieved if they can't air their views.

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PM's unchecked privilege should be challenged

Amanda Vanstone REMEMBER that terrible line run by the monarchists during the 1999 republic referendum? Which one, I hear you ask - there were so many. Well, the worst one, namely: ''You can't trust the politicians.

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Conspirators reap the whirlwind

Amanda Vanstone The seeds of the unfolding disaster within the federal government were sown by Julia Gillard and the faceless men when they garrotted Kevin Rudd behind closed doors in 2010.

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Be careful what you wish for

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott

Amanda Vanstone You can peak too early in politics. That is the danger Tony Abbott faces even as he calls insistently for an election.

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Gillard took the sleazy way out

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Amanda Vanstone If Peter Slipper has rorted the system then none of us should have any sympathy.

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Forget the farcical surplus, it's debt we have to worry about

Amanda Vanstone The next government will have an awful financial mess to clean up.