What Happens Next? Reconstructing Australia after COVID-19.
- Melbourne : Melbourne University Publishing, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (197 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Reimagining Australia -- Time to heal: Uluru healing the people and the land -- It's possible -- How to start: Processes for discerning post-viral strategy -- An emissions and employment accord -- The health and wellbeing of future generations -- To surge forward, not snap back -- Part 2: A framework for the future -- A modern framework for thinking about debt and deficits -- Towards an affirmational republic -- Rethinking government: Lessons from the National Cabinet -- Fairness and sustainability through population policy The business of building back better -- Working together for a better Australia -- Reducing inequality through the reconstruction -- Part 3: Policy settings for fairness and sustainability -- Infrastructure and investment for the reconstruction -- Sustainable agriculture and food production -- Water security for rural and regional Australia -- Renewable energy to power the reconstruction -- Making it in Australia -- Building opportunity through economic complexity -- The case for stump-jump policy -- Rebuilding from the ground up: the role of the foundational economy Part 4: Essential services for a stronger Australia -- Reimagining public health in Australia -- Rebuilding the public sector -- A social guarantee -- Reimagining school education -- Rebuilding a sustainable and fair tertiary education system for Australia -- Reforming employment services for the reconstruction -- Four lessons from the great disruption -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Notes -- Index