Agree basically with the factors that point to a degradation of quality of life in Australia. There are two trends that are of concern.
Growing inequality especially in wealth. The Gini coefficient shows a jump during the 2008 financial crisis and we sit with the lower European countries. All sorts of visible and invisible effects like cost of housing, rise in child poverty, rise in working poor, mindsets changing from community to self, descent of quality of political discourse., etc
Inexorable continuation of the neo liberal economic agenda in privatisation of services (eg education) , resisting climate change, weakening the labour force, resisting wage increases etc.
Agree basically with the factors that point to a degradation of quality of life in Australia. There are two trends that are of concern.
Growing inequality especially in wealth. The Gini coefficient shows a jump during the 2008 financial crisis and we sit with the lower European countries. All sorts of visible and invisible effects like cost of housing, rise in child poverty, rise in working poor, mindsets changing from community to self, descent of quality of political discourse., etc
Inexorable continuation of the neo liberal economic agenda in privatisation of services (eg education) , resisting climate change, weakening the labour force, resisting wage increases etc.
I know I don't want to live an American life.