HOCKEY'S THE PROBLEM

And not the solution.

The brilliant photo that caught 

the Treasurer

Enjoy a cigar by all means - but make certain you've done the work first.

Hockey hasn't - as this column for the Canberra Times made clear . . .

THE BUDGET

The issue, I reckon, with this Budget isn't that it's harsh. It's that it's selective. 

Trouble selling?

Tuesday's Canberra Times column began examining how . . . 

AN IDEOLOGICAL BUDGET

Political wisdom always insists the first budget should be the harshest.

Is that a tin ear?

Image from dailylife

But has this one gone too far?

As I suggest in this column for today's Canberra Times, I think the problem is rather that it doesn't do anything to make Australia 'fairer' . . .