Having published an article in the Conversation on 2 September on the paucity of debate in the election campaign on the quality of jobs growth – and specifically the need for middle class jobs growth, I was intrigued to listen this week to Radio National’s Big Ideas program Can democracy survive a disappearing middle class?…

The Australian election is over at last but what the Coalition win will mean for Australian society is the story to be told in coming years. This week we are at page one of what might be quite a long read, as both pages and chapters. For sure, the outcome of the Coalition government in…