Author: Alison McClelland, La Trobe University.

Fabian Society Tax Reform Conference, May 31 2003

Introduction

In their introduction to the book, Australia Reshaped – 200 years of institutional transformation, Castles and Brennan comment,

Something significant has been happening in Australian institutional life over the last two decades or so – a kind of institutional repositioning, a move to a more competitive institutional order, increasingly like that of the United States and increasingly unlike that Australian egalitarianism of the past (2002: ).

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