The benefits of ageing
This year marks the centenary of Australia’s old age pension, and it has seen a 50 per cent increase in applications.
Let the debates begin
While 2008 will be remembered for its financial fireworks, 2009 will be about public policy debates: less memorable, maybe, but far more formative.
Relax and be merry
The Spectator Australia wishes its readers a Happy Christmas
More feckless federalism?
The Australian states have never raised enough money to pay for their natural constitutional chores — they vacated the field of direct income taxation in 1942, and their indirect ‘franchise fees’ on alcohol, tobacco and petrol were branded ‘excise’ duties by the High Court in 1997, and struck down.
In charge and on top
Prime Minister Rudd ends his first year in office on a high, literally and figuratively.
A futile fixation with cars
When the Prime Minister outlined his industry policy in the run-up to the November 2007 federal election — ‘I don’t want to be leader of a country that doesn’t make things any more’ — some feared an increase in industry subsidies.
Another Vote for Change
While the world has been fixated by the United States’ historic presidential election, a more modest nation has voted for change.
A win for us, too
The Spectator Australia on Barack Obama's victory in the US Presidential election
Time to refocus
Spectator Australia on the government's tax measures
Get a grip, people
Spectator Australia on the financial turmoil
The hazard of moralising
The Spectator Australia on regulation in the banking sector
Polite participation is enough
The Spectator Australia on the country's relationship with the UN
Growing old disgracefully
Kathy Lette says that turning 50 is traumatic, but in the end you are as young as you feel
Well hung – but is it art?
Oscar Humphries says museum curators should ignore art market trends and set their own course
An Australian Spectator emerges
Introducing the new Australian Spectator
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