Labour

Governments must do more to keep workers employed, and they need to be thinking about how we build an economy where workers are not so vulnerable when the next economic crisis hits.

The federal government's New Emergency Care Benefit sounds promising, but will be a disaster if workers only get 55 per cent of minimum wage.

As long as ignorance of public and private sector interdependence prevails, so too will inequality, poverty, deregulation, privatization, crumbling infrastructure and environmental degradation.