Published: May 29, 2019
Remember when the right was accused of obsessing over market forces and the left of not understanding economics?
While Australian political debate has never seemed more sharply divided, the philosophical lines between left and right have never seemed more blurred.
The economy is always in transition, and people are always losing and finding jobs, but – after decades of the right being contemptuous of the pain suffered by workers losing their jobs through privatisation, free-trade agreements or technological change – these days, the right seem obsessed with protecting jobs. But only some of them.
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