The era of small government is ending. And Australians want to regain power ceded to the amoral forces of global capital | Peter Lewis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Since the 2020 global pandemic, government has taken a heightened role in people's lives and, on most policy challenges from cost-of-living "relief" to energy transition to housing affordability to the impact of social media and AI, people want government to step up.
58% : The broader truth for both parties of government is that the expectation of intervention does not begin and end with renewable energy.
47% : To their credit they established Medicare and superannuation as part of that settlement, leaving Australians in far better shape than the US under Ronald Reagan or the UK under Margaret Thatcher but it still represented a submission to global capital on behalf of the nation state.
38% : Whether they bang the drum like Donald Trump and his tinpot impersonators or embrace the more nuanced euro-beats of the Scandinavians, there is recognition that the era of small government is coming to an end.
37% : The only thing keeping the thirst for greater intervention below 50% is ALP voters who are more likely to say they are happy with the current levels of government action.
37% : Today, people rate corporate greed ahead of government spending or global instability as the main driver of the current cost-of-living pressures that are plaguing the nation.

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