Judging by Wayne Swan’s performance yesterday, he was so flabbergasted by what the international financial crisis has done to his budget that he’d become thoroughly disorientated, writes Bernard Keane.
Age pensioner
Eva Cox: There are pensioners and then there are pensioners…
Before we move down the track of a universal rise to pensions, we need to think through whether this is best use of money, writes Eva Cox.
Pensioners, policy and practicalities
People on the aged pension are an interest group like any other. Their claims to taxpayer dollars should be evaluated, like any others, critically, and based on evidence, writes Bernard Keane.
Two Australias cast just a single vote
There’s two Australias’ Rod Cameron told Lateline last week. And you could pretty much karaoke the rest.
