Alan Wood Retires

The Australian’s economics editor, Alan Wood, retires:

After more than 40 federal budgets and 50 state ones, I have decided enough is enough. The last straw was when Wayne Swan put a coloured cover on this year’s Budget Paper No1. What next, his photograph? So I am retiring, and this is my final column as The Australian’s economics editor. However, after a break I will be contributing a weekly opinion page piece. See you then.