Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation: Quarterly Essay 46

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Laura Tingle

Great Expectations

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Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation: Quarterly Essay 46

Laura Tingle

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English

Black Inc
04 June 2012

Politics & government; Australian Society

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Rather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and politicians. In Quarterly Essay 46 Laura Tingle shows that the reason for this goes to something deep in Australian culture- our great expectations of government.

Since the deregulation eta of the 1980s, Tingle finds, governments can do less, but we wish they could do more. From Hawke to Gillard, each prime minister has grappled with this dilemma. Keating sought to change expectations, Howard to feed a culture of entitlement, Rudd to reconceive the federation. Through all of this, and back to our origins, runs an almost childlike sense of the government as saviour and provider that has remained constant even as the world has changed.

Now we are an angry nation, and the Age of Entitlement is coming to an end. What will a different politics look like? And, Tingle asks, even if a leader surfs the wave of anger all the way to power, what answer can be given to our great expectations?

'It is wrong to see the anger of the last few years as a 'one-off,' which might go away at the next election. The things we are angry about betray the changes that have been taking place over recent decades. Politicians no longs control interest rates, the exchange rate, or wages, prices or industries that were once protected or even owned by government. Voters are confused about what politicians can do for them in such a world.' Laura Tingle, Great Expectations.

By: Laura Tingle
Imprint: Black Inc
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 168mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 164g
ISBN: 9781863955645
ISBN 10: 186395564X
Publication Date: 04 June 2012
Audience: General/trade , General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified