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Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: Opportunities to Reduce Social Disadvantage from COVID‐19
Author(s) -
Baxter Janeen,
CobbClark Deborah,
Cornish Alexander,
Ho Tiffany,
Kalb Guyonne,
Mazerolle Lorraine,
Parsell Cameron,
Pawson Hal,
Thorpe Karen,
De Silva Lihini,
Zubrick Stephen R.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8462.12428
Subject(s) - disadvantage , leverage (statistics) , covid-19 , work (physics) , political science , business , law , engineering , medicine , mechanical engineering , disease , pathology , virology , machine learning , outbreak , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This article identifies and examines a range of policy reform opportunities in Australia arising from COVID‐19. The authors demonstrate how COVID‐19 presents unique opportunities for rethinking and redesigning long‐standing rules and regulations covering how people live and work in Australia, with some opportunities arising coincidentally and others requiring purposeful policy and institutional redesign. They present a broad range of ideas to address entrenched disadvantage in health, labour markets, the tax and transfer system, gender equality, education, housing and criminal justice in Australia, in order to leverage the COVID‐19 crisis to build a better society .