The AFR View 22/9/22 “Australia is better placed than many other comparable nations. But Dr Chalmers needs to start a serious and genuinely upfront national conversation about the challenges that Australian people must confront.”
The government should take up this call for a national conversation and "fully" engage the Australian people.
For too long now, our country has been slipping backwards on many fronts, and we, “the people”, have not engaged sufficiently in addressing many significant and often contentious issues.
The level of affordable government-funded services and how we raise revenue to pay for these needs to be urgently addressed.