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Author Dawson, Emma.

Title What Happens Next? Reconstructing Australia after COVID-19
Published Melbourne : Melbourne University Publishing, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (197 p.)
Contents 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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Environmental policy -- Australia
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Australia
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspects -- Australia
Social problems -- Australia -- History -- 21st century
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspects.
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects.
Economic history.
Economic policy.
Environmental policy.
Social conditions.
Social policy.
Social problems.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
SUBJECT Australia -- Social policy
Australia -- Economic policy
Australia -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Australia -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
Subject Australia.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author McCalman, Janet, 1948-
ISBN 0522877222
9780522877229