Why a feeding frenzy over Coles and Woolworths prices? The Prime Minister’s breathless recent announcement of ‘a crackdown on dodgy supermarket practices’ suggests something is terribly wrong....

The poverty lobby is at it again. Even though the massive expansion of the welfare state has diminished the stressors of poverty, the Brotherhood of St Laurence complains there is no official poverty line 50 years after Australia’s Commission of Inquiry into...