For Australia to prosper and grow through the 2020s and beyond we need to learn the right lessons and draw the right conclusions from the 40th anniversary this year of the election of the Hawke-Keating government.

It’s not to turn back and retrace the steps of our predecessors, even our heroes, even as we admire their ambition and achievements. It’s to look forwards, upwards and outwards – to the future, to economic mobility, and to the world, like they did.