Reforming Australia

Participants in the debate, at the conference and in The Australian's pages, included Reserve Bank Governor Ian Macfarlane, Treasurer Peter Costello, Treasury Secretary Ken Henry, Prime Minister John Howard, Opposition Leader Mark Latham, ACTU Secretary Greg Combet, Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward, Shadow Health Minister Julia Gillard and economist Ross Garnaut. Extracts from their contributions, together with those of other major players, are included here. Policies examined through the intergenerational lens included work and family the transition from welfare to work education and innovation health reform indigenous development the future of free trade new issues in micro-economic reform and the constraint imposed by the budget. In Reforming Australia, Peter Dawkins and Mike Steketee, along with other leading academics from the University of Melbourne and journalists from The Australian, draw out the new thinking behind the development of policies for a new generation of Australians.