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Kevin Andrews

February

In times of global tension, the public needs to understand the purpose of defence, and its costs.

Why is Defence so little involved in the great defence debate?

In times of global tension, the public needs to understand the purpose of defence, and its costs. But that is hampered by a habit of public risk aversion among the defence leadership.

  • Jennifer Parker

July 2022

Solomon MP Luke Gosling will co-sponsor the private member’s bill.

Labor moves to lift assisted dying ban in territories

Labor backbenchers Luke Gosling and Alicia Payne will move private member’s legislation to permit euthanasia laws in the ACT and NT.

  • Tom McIlroy

June 2022

David Pocock

Wallabies great David Pocock wins ACT Senate seat

Pocock defeated Liberal Zed Seselja in an historic victory, ending the major party stranglehold on ACT Senate representation.

  • Tom McIlroy

April 2022

Labor’s Kim Carr has done just about everything one can in the Senate. Given he was elected before 2004, that adds up to a rather hefty pension.

Ousted parliamentary fathers consoled by pension scheme

Labor’s Kim Carr and the Liberals’ Kevin Andrews have one thing factional machinations can never take away from them: their vintage parliamentary pensions.

  • Myriam Robin

February 2021

Keith Wolahan photographed at home in Warranwood, Victoria. .

Liberals’ new star was shaped by an endless war

Commando and lawyer Keith Wolahan’s military experience could make him an influential figure over defence policy and international affairs after he enters Parliament.

  • Aaron Patrick
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Liberal MP Kevin Andrews leaving his preselection on Sunday. He was defeated by challenger Keith Wolahan.

Kevin Andrews, ready-made diplomat?

Lest we forget Kevin Andrews, a sentient trope for everything cold, retrograde and frankly embarrassing about conservatism.

  • Joe Aston
Captain Keith Wolahan in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in February 2010.

Commando’s victory is a defining moment for the Liberal Party

The party’s left faction defied Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and replaced a 30-year veteran with limited appeal in a state proud of its social liberalism.

  • Aaron Patrick

January 2021

Kevin Andrews will have to defend his seat from a challenge by a former soldier.

Blow for Lib conservatives as Andrews loses preselection

Federal Parliament’s longest-serving member, Kevin Andrews, has been thrashed in a preselection ballot for his safe Melbourne seat of Menzies.

  • Phillip Coorey
Kevin Andrews will have to defend his seat from a challenge by a former soldier.

‘Father of the House’ fights for one more term

Federal Parliament’s longest serving member, Kevin Andrews, is likely to survive a preselection challenge this weekend, his backers say.

  • Phillip Coorey

August 2020

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.

Why won't Frydenberg save the Victorian Liberals?

No one is in charge of the Victorian Liberal Party, which is why it isn't taken seriously in the exhausted, recessed state.

  • Aaron Patrick
Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Housing Michael Sukkar.

Labor demands PM stand down Sukkar over branch-stacking scandal

Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar has denied any wrongdoing as government figures defend the factional powerbroker.

  • Andrew Tillett

March 2020

Pauline Hanson

Please explain: lawyers fume at One Nation over derogatory comments

The Law Council wants the family law inquiry to be halted after women appearing before the committee were derided in comments posted on One Nation's Facebook pages.

  • Michael Pelly

October 2019

NDIA acting chief executive Vicki Rundle said she would have to check if NDIA chair Helen Nugent has breached privacy rules.

NDIS termination payments AWOL in Senate estimates

What the NDIA told Senate Estimates about executive termination payments contradicts the contents of its own recent annual report.

  • Joe Aston

September 2019

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson

Albanese questions Hanson's role in family law inquiry 'deal'

Labor is angry at being left out of consultations into the family law and child support inquiry and questioned Pauline Hanson's role as deputy chairman.

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  • Tom McIlroy

June 2019

ACOSS FAIRFAXMEDIA PHOTOGRAPH BY GLENN HUNT 12th June 2014.
NEWS -  Kevin Andrews speaking at the 2014 ACOSS National Conference in Brisbane.

Time for 'civil debate' on religious protections

Former minister Kevin Andrews says new religious freedom laws should follow the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and balance the rights of believers with the wider Australian community. 

  • Tom McIlroy

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