Tag: Age Pension

• Bursting Balloons and Other Party Tricks

  AUSTRALIAN POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2022 With an extra 2.1 percent in their pockets, courtesy of the biannual indexation of the age pension and payable from Mar. 20, older Australians will have been celebrating, won’t they? Just asking. The increase was eaten up a long time ago, in higher food and petrol […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  March 22, 2022

  Australia, Current affairs, Politics

  Age Pension, ALP, Anthony Albanese, Budget, Election 2022, Josh Frydenberg, Kimberley Kitching, Liberals, Scott Morrison, South Australia

• Some Points on the Pension

      24 October 2013 Ross Fitzgerald had this piece in the Sydney Daily Telegraph today. It makes a good argument for policy change. I have some views on that too that I’ll blog about later. In the meantime, read on: Government can’t ignore retiring baby-boomers THE year 2011 was the year when people born […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  October 24, 2013

  General Interest

  Age Pension, Australia, Baby Boomers