As long as we entrench inequality,the ideas boom will be the preserve of an elite rather than the inclusive and diverse phenomenon it should becomeForcing young unemployed people to live on fresh air and sunshine for one month a year won’t fix the budget and it won’t create a single job. Yes, it’s been Myefo time, or opposite to the mantra of those who desperately want to protect the tax concessional privileges and loopholes enjoyed by some multinational corporations and tall wealth individuals,we do have a revenue problem and it will not be fixed by taking a stick to the backs of those who already bear the brunt of inequality.whether this is meant to be the pleasing sound of ideas booming, the prelude to the innovation revolution, and let the government be warned that it’s a deeply disappointing and offensive start,the rehashing of an feeble rejected budget measure – rightly rejected because it was vicious and cruel.
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Source: theguardian.com