We enter 2021 as a society marked by deepening economic cleavages between the haves and have-nots.
In 2020, Australians may have been, at least ostensibly, “all in this together”. A war-like national mobilisation increased social solidarity, and the federal government reluctantly improved our paltry, patchy welfare state.
Yet we enter 2021 as a society marked by deepening economic cleavages between the haves and have-nots.
Government assistance to the poor is drying up, as is the sense of uncertainty and restraint among the wealthy. New Year’s celebrations were thus tainted with a Gatsby-like hue.
Read more about the growing wealth gap in modern Australia.
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