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Flat White

It’s easier to buy votes than sell policies

6 September 2018

7:29 AM

6 September 2018

7:29 AM

What do Scott Morrison and Vladimir Putin have in common? For one thing, they’ve both backed down from proposals to lift the eligibility age for the public pension.

In Putin’s case, it’s only a partial back down, but the fact there was any back down at all in Russia’s pseudo-democracy shows the intensity of opposition that withdrawal of social benefits can arouse in any country.

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