What Happens Next?: Reconstructing Australia After COVID-19 - Softcover

Emma Dawson (author) & Janet McCalman (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0522877214 ISBN 13: 9780522877212

Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the global economy, a reset to serve the wellbeing of people and the planet was plainly needed. As Australia rebuilds, after the immediate health crisis has passed, it must be with the explicit purpose of constructing an economically and ecologically sustainable world.

After the Great Depression and the Second World War, economic thinking was transformed across the Anglosphere, with a determination to create a more equitable society and support every child, regardless of background, to achieve their full potential.

Australia's leaders reshaped our economy through a determined and coordinated program of post-war reconstruction. Their reforms set us up for decades of prosperity and the creation of perhaps the most prosperous and stable society on earth.

With contributions from some of Australia's most respected academics and leading thinkers, What Happens Next? sets out a progressive, reforming agenda to tackle the twin crises of climate change and inequality. It provides a framework through which our collective effort can be devoted to improving the lives of all Australians, and the sustainability of the world in which we live.

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About the Author

Emma Dawson (Author) Emma Dawson is the executive director of Per Capita. Formerly, she was a senior advisor on sustainability and inclusion at Telstra, executive director of the Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society, University of Melbourne, and a senior policy advisor in the Rudd and Gillard governments. Dawson has published articles on public policy and social affairs in academic journals and the mainstream press, and is a regular panellist on The Drum on ABC TV. She is a graduate of LaTrobe and Monash universities, and an Honorary Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Janet McCalman (Author) Janet McCalman is known for her award-winning books Struggletown, Journeyings and Sex and Suffering, all published by MUP. She co-edited with Emma Dawson What Happens Next- Reconstructing Australia after Covid-19' in 2020. For over twenty years she taught and researched interdisciplinary history at the University of Melbourne. In 2018 she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0522877214
• ISBN 13: 9780522877212
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224