Ross Peake

Ross Peake

Budget to lean on Canberra families

Ross Peake Wayne Swan’s sixth – and possibly last – Budget will lean on Canberra families while urging them to put the national interest first.

Retail drop-off in the offing

21 December 2011.  AFR.  Generic Retail.

Photograph by Arsineh Houspian.  +(61) 401 320 173.  arsineh@arsineh.com

Ross Peake Retail sales in the ACT are forecast to slow due to federal government spending cuts and less house building.

Ross Peake

Swan's clever middle class bribe

Ross Peake

Ross Peake Wayne Swan gets credit for a clever bribe by boosting middle class welfare to win votes.