A very enjoyable Zoom meeting this morning on the cost of living and the upcoming budget with ACTU President Michelle O’Neil and policy director at the Centre for Future Work, Greg Jericho. It was hosted by Ebony Bennett of The Australia Institute.

It would have even been more enjoyable had they been able to get to my questions:

“Unions and the ALP once acted on the inverse relationship between escalating land prices and wages by introducing the federal land tax. Why is land tax no longer part of progressive political discourse (as recommended the Henry Tax Review)? Instead of taxing wages, wouldn’t paying the rent for the land we occupy also honour our first nations peoples more than platitudes?”