13 September

One commentator said we're rapidly becoming the US, with millions of working poor with little job security, poverty-level wages and no ability to keep up with everyday expenses. And public services becoming privatised and unaffordable and increasingly gutted. And yet there has never been more money and wealth in this country and others, in the past 20-30 years. How does that work? The top 1% of the population have taken it. Unions and taxes were smashed, essential services privatised and a culture of status encouraged, in schooling and education.