Labor’s Andrew Leigh targets Coalition’s “forgotten people”

Monday 5 December 2016

Labor’s shadow assistant treasurer, Dr Andrew Leigh, gave a speech yesterday to Per Capita’s reform agenda series entitled “Explaining the Rise of Australian Inequality”, which pinned Australia’s growing inequality on four key factors: falling union membership; rising technology and globalisation; inequitable taxes and transfers; and market concentration.

While the whole speech is worth reading, I found Dr Leigh’s swipe at the Coalition’s housing policy particularly interesting:

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About the author

Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.