http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/tanja-kovac/ Tanja Kovac is a writer and lawyer. She is National Co-ordinator of EMILY’s List Australia and has two children in occasional care. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-nanny-state/ Plug the word nanny into the website of free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), and you would be forgiven for thinking that they were an au pair agency.  No less than 190 opinion pieces, articles, press releases and reports use the word. IPA’s nanny obsession reaches fever pitch in 2011, with IPA spokesmen Tim Wilson and Chris Berg whipping off articles condemning the nanny state quicker than you can say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. And now Big Tobacco has jumped on the nanny state bandwagon with the launch of its plain packaging attack campaign NoNannyState. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tanja Kovac) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-nanny-state/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-nanny-state/#item6079 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:00:46 +0000 Tanja Kovac | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-breathtaking-hypocrisy-of-the-pro-lifers/ The Coalition loves to play up its family credentials with Christian voters.  But both the Coalition and pro-life groups talk big and do little to support women to have kids. This is the unspoken hypocrisy of the pro-life movement. Under Howard, promoting family values became dogma, as a belief that American-style conservative campaigning - pro-life, anti-gay - would deliver dividends electorally. Although the rise and fall of Family First suggests that the conservative Christian vote is overstated in Australia, pro-life lobbies have benefitted from an increase in influence on the Coalition (and at times Labor) as a consequence. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tanja Kovac) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-breathtaking-hypocrisy-of-the-pro-lifers/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-breathtaking-hypocrisy-of-the-pro-lifers/#item6035 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:55:42 +0000 Tanja Kovac | Author bios | The Punch