Episode 49: Conversations about Australia Together - Part 6

Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly:

In this series of the Australia Together Podcast we’re interviewing a range of people about the issues we can resolve by developing a long term integrated plan for a better future for Australia. We’re looking into a draft of such a plan - Australia Together - and canvassing views about strategies that are or should be included in it.

Last week I published an article summarising the key strategies currently in Australia Together for achieving fairness in Australia including a National Accord on Wealth, Welfare and Wellbeing and a Universal Basic Income.

In today’s episode I interview Dr John Tons from Flinders University’s Philosophy Department. Dr Tons is an expert on social justice and a passionate supporter of policies aimed at achieving fairness in society such as a Universal Basic Income. We talk here about one of the world’s most important philosophers on the topic of social justice - John Rawls - and about how strategies in Australia Together can be designed to help Australians implement a socially just future where there is fairness for all.

For more information on a Universal Basic Income (UBI) readers may wish to view:

• Professor Ross Garnaut – Reset: Restoring Australia after the pandemic recession, 2021;

• Brian Donaghy – A Basic Income for Australia: A fair go for all, 2021; and

• ACFP’s video on YouTube – Snapshots from Australia Together, Episode 2 Part 3: A New Economy Based on an Accord on Wealth, Welfare and Wellbeing - The benefits of a social wage for all Australians. This video shows how incomes for individual Australians and wealth for the nation would both rise if a social wage or UBI were to be introduced consistent with the principles of a National Accord on Wealth, Welfare and Wellbeing.

For more information on the proposal in Australia Together for a National Accord on Wealth, Welfare and Wellbeing view this ACFP Fact Sheet.

Want to know more about Australia Together?

Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to help Australians make the best future we can imagine in the 2020s a reality by 2050 or sooner.

Browse the latest Issue of Australia Together - Issue No. 7 - here.

Issue No. 8 of Australia Together will be released soon.

Next week on the Australia Together Podcast:

Conversations about Australia Together Part 7 - Strategies for electoral reform in Australia.