The current system financially discriminates against families who make their own choices about how they raise their family – including the use of childcare, who works outside the home and when, and how many children a couple chooses to have.
Three decades of damaging rural policies – infrastructure neglect, deregulation, bank finance, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, radical free trade – have contributed to a man-made drought across the Murray-Darling Basin. How can we fix this?
If the government can support China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, why can’t Australia have its own Development Bank?
