Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: Opportunities to Reduce Social Disadvantage from COVID‐19. (30th June 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Baxter, Janeen; Cobb‐Clark, Deborah; Cornish, Alexander; Ho, Tiffany; Kalb, Guyonne; Mazerolle, Lorraine; Parsell, Cameron; Pawson, Hal; Thorpe, Karen; De Silva, Lihini; Zubrick, Stephen R.
• Is Part Of: Australian economic review. Volume 54:Number 3(2021)
• Page Start: 343
• Page End: 358
• Publication Date: 2021-06-30
• Subjects: Economics -- Periodicals; Australia -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Australia -- Economic policy -- Periodicals; Australia -- Economic conditions -- 1945-; Économie politique -- Périodiques; Australie -- Conditions économiques -- Périodiques; Australie -- Politique économique -- Périodiques; Australie -- Conditions économiques -- 1945- -- Périodiques; 330.994005
• DOI: 10.1111/1467-8462.12428
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0004-9018

Abstract

Abstract: 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 .