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Pension v dole: what’s the dollar difference?

Crikey / Ruth Brown / Wednesday, 20 May 2009

Will under-67-year-olds be worse off on the dole instead of the pension? We crunch the numbers.

Richardson: The battle for the Liberal Party begins

Crikey / Tuesday, 13 November 2007

It’s much too late in the day for yesterday’s Coalition event to really be regarded as a campaign “launch”. But it was a launch nonetheless: the launch of the battle for the post-election soul of the Liberal Party, writes Charles Richardson.