Glyn Davis AC is the CEO of the Paul Ramsay Foundation. For fifteen years he was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. He was the co-host of the Rudd government's Australia 2020 Summit and presented the 51st Boyer Lecutures in 2010. He was the Director General of Premier and Cabinet in Queensland from 1995-2002.
The question at the heart of Davis's essay is what to do about this situation, or what it is possible to do in a country in thrall to low taxation and suspicious of the welfare state. * NATIONAL [PRINT], The Australian, [AUDIENCE: 94,448, ASR: AUD 8,181] * A thought-provoking read on how birth is a roll of the dice, with your chances in life decided by where you are born and who are you born to. * QLD [PRINT], Courier Mail, [AUDIENCE: 166,502, ASR: AUD 4,686] *