For 13 years, voters entrusted Labor with the stewardship of the national economy. The results of Labor's time in office are clear: a growing gap between rich and poor, persistent long-term unemployment, evaporating services across rural Australia, declining social cohesion and increasing vulnerability and insecurity for all but a privileged minority. In short, a social and economic mess. Labor cannot evade responsibility for this legacy. The mantra of so-called 'responsible' economic management - privatisation, competition and globalisation - is being continued by the Coalition government, with similar results. Federally, Labor is within reach of government. But without a new focus and different policies, it will fall into the same holes. Tinkering at the edges is not enough to get Labor out of the rut, or prevent it from being a Tweedledum alternative to the Coalition's Tweedledee. Out of the Rut analyses the failures of the Labor government and its Coalition successor, and derives genuinely alternative policies to get people back to work and to rebuild a fair society.
- ISBN13 9781864489712
- Publish Date 1 January 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 December 2014
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Allen & Unwin
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English