Emma Dawson

December 2020

Australia needs to rebalance the economy in favour of workers. Otherwise what hope is there for market capitalism?

The economic security that Americans want to regain was built by postwar centrists, not radicals of left or right.

We will look back on the pandemic as the beginning of a new age. It's an opportunity to introduce a new social compact and to restore the fair go.

Investing heavily in schools would be the best return on the vast amounts of money that governments are borrowing.

Spending on social care must now sit alongside traditional stimulus targets such as building and hard infrastructure.

Forget GST. Taxing the money locked up in unproductive assets would create the efficient taxation that policymakers dream of.

Business and the unions want very different things. But consulting first will give the government some leverage in Parliament.

Socialists argue that JobSeeker should remain as a basic wage for all. But a UBI is really just a fantasy of Silicon Valley plutocrats.