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After a three-year debate, Manningham City Council in Melbourne’s affluent eastern suburbs tonight will finally have a public vote on whether to introduce double rates on the municipality’s seven pokies venues.

Pokies industry donations for 2010-11 got a brief mention in yesterday’s coverage and they certainly make for interesting reading when totalled up.

The new Labor government, to its credit, never adopted the original Howard anti-refugee rhetoric.

Scott Morrison’s attempt to exploit the funerals of the Christmas Island victims forms part of a series of attacks on Muslims from sections of the Liberal Party.

This week’s contribution from Janet Albrechtsen is a way into the heart of political change in Australia, albeit in ways she couldn’t possibly understand.

Author Benjamin Law is all for public debate. He’s all for feisty discussion. But the bizarre confrontation in the queue for a book signing with Margaret Andrews, wife of government minister Kevin Andrews, at this week’s national conference for Family Relationships Services Australia took the cake.

Tony Abbott’s reshuffle is a lot like Julia Gillard’s. However, there are two shadow ministers with questions to answer over conflict of interest issues.

Dr Haneef intends to sure for false imprisonment and defamation. To defend the suit Kevin Andrews will have to convince Robert McClelland that the claims against him fit the Commonwealth guidelines for ministerial indemnity.

The Government should withdraw the proposed paternalistic social security legislation, pass the Greens’ Bill to reinstate the RDA and start a wider discussion on how to achieve real welfare reform.

Tony Abbott’s media cheer squad are making encouraging noises, but even they seem to have their doubts about his leadership. Words such as “desperate” and “last hope” have been replaced by “high risk”.

Coalition frontbencher Kevin Andrews has proclaimed he wants immigration reduced from 180,000 people a year to around 35,000 “as a starting point”. This is not just a lurch to the right, says Bernard Keane, it is a shift towards the very crassest form of populism.

Another day, another contested election defeat! That’s 42 and counting. However, as The Age reported this morning, the ballot to see who would be full-time major of Manningham City Council in 2010 came down to a knife-edge 5-4 vote. You would think that Kevin Andrews’ safe federal seat of Menzies in Melbourne’s leafy eastern suburbs […]

Kevin Andrews approached Barnaby Joyce last week about a role on the front bench in the event of a leadership spill, reports Katherine Murphy. Andrew didn’t get the gig but role will Joyce play in the Liberal party’s future?

Glenn Milne takes a closer look at Kevin Andrews, Nick Minchin and Andrew Robb — the three men who have brought Turnbull to his knees.

Just when you think they’ve hit bottom, the Liberals surprise by finding new ways to tear themselves apart. The Libs have promised to get their act together, but who seriously thinks they have finished?

Malcolm Turnbull’s moderate views aren’t the problem: it’s his leadership style, in which a lifelong tendency — need — to go for the jugular has come to the fore in a time when he needs to be inclusive and consultative.

Malcolm Turnbull has successfully survived today’s leadership vote, with the party room voting down a motion for a leadership spill 48-35 — but that’s still 35 party members holding deep anger towards their leader.

The last leadership contest, Nelson-Turnbull, was just over a year ago and Twitter played virtually no role. How things have changed, — for journalism and politics.

Malcolm Turnbull has dragged his party kicking and screaming to actually support the Government’s CPRS, but his leadership is now terminal. Bernard Keane wraps all of last night’s partyroom drama.

Liberal MP and former Minister for Immigration, Kevin Andrews, writes about the need for clear population policy in Australia, in light of our inadequate water supply, congested roads and overcrowded public transport.

Politicians’ rhetoric on asylum seekers is turning extremely nasty — and familiar, says Michelle Grattan. But heading back to the dark days of Tampa-era refugee debates could be a dangerous waters for both parties.

The Victorian Liberals should start seeking replacements for Peter Costello and Kevin Andrews, writes Stephen Mayne.

Surely a terror suspect not accused of any violence but merely of giving his cousin a SIM card is a greater potential threat to our security than a suspected mafioso, writes Irfan Yusuf.