Why Labor Should Savour Its Greens: Rebuilding a Fractured Alliance - Couverture souple

Orgill, Brad

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1922070416 ISBN 13 : 9781922070418

Editeur : Scribe Pubns Pty Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Former investment banker and economist Brad Orgill believes that Australia is suffering from a crisis of confidence. Globalisation, deregulation, and privatisation have delivered economic growth and enhanced consumption for the past 20 years, but the after-effects of the 2007-08 financial crisis, rising inequality, job insecurity, and increased corporate power over voters and employees are eroding our sense of democracy. Meanwhile, with an election looming, the future of progressive politics nationwide is deeply uncertain. The Australian Labor Party and the Greens are splitting the left-of-centre vote - the major party driven rightwards by an increasingly conservative swinging voter, and the minor party holding firm on vital but controversial issues. In Why Labor Should Savour Its Greens, Brad Orgill reviews the Greens' major economic, social, and environmental policies, and argues that progressive voters, and the nation as a whole, deserve an aligned ALP-Greens platform incorporating the best elements of each. With a $500 billion annual combined government spend at stake - not to mention the future of our social fabric and our very planet - this is a time for visionary thinking, not old divisions and counter-productive rivalries.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Australia is suffering from a crisis of confidence. Globalisation, deregulation, and privatisation have delivered economic growth and enhanced consumption for the past twenty years, but the effects of the 2007–08 financial crisis, rising inequality, job insecurity, and increased corporate power over voters and employees are all eroding our sense of democracy.

Meanwhile, with an election looming, the future of progressive politics nationwide is deeply uncertain. The Australian Labor Party and the Greens are splitting the left-of-centre vote — the major party driven rightwards by an increasingly conservative swinging voter, and the minor party holding firm on vital but controversial issues.

In Why Labor Should Savour Its Greens, former investment banker and economist Brad Orgill reviews the Greens' major economic, social, and environmental policies; and argues that progressive voters, and the nation as a whole, deserve an aligned ALP–Greens platform incorporating the best elements of each. With an annual government expenditure of $500 billion at stake — not to mention the future of our social fabric and our very planet — this is a time for visionary thinking, not old divisions and counter-productive rivalries.

Biographie de l'auteur

Brad Orgill has degrees in economics, arts (Asian studies), and environmental science & law. He worked for global financial-services firm UBS for twenty-two years, including stints as CEO or country head in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia. He is a director of the National Broadband Network, chaired the taskforce that reviewed the federal government's Building the Education Revolution program, is on the advisory panel for the Regional Development Australia Fund, and represents the Commonwealth on the Queensland government's post-floods Reconstruction Authority.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scribe Pubns Pty Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1922070416
• ISBN 13: 9781922070418
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 218
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• Personne responsable: non disponible