With some clever work at his campaign launch, Kevin Rudd has seized the title of the Prince of Parsimony, leaving John Howard with the mantle of the Spendthrift Statesman. The Coalition is calling for a recount, claiming they’re the cheapskates. Who’s right?
More than doubling
Finally, Hank Ebes stops playing possum
For the past decade, Hank Ebes, the Melbourne Aboriginal art dealer who put Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’s Warlugulong up for auction, has been deploring the fact that many of Australia’s most important indigenous art works have been going into private collections or sold to overseas buyers, writes Geoff Maslen.
The housing crisis: in words and pictures
In my opinion, it’s gobsmackingly obvious that a huge increase in “home-buying power” was the dominant force behind the big upswing in the average price of Australia’s eight million homes over the past decade or so, writes Rory Robertson.
