Ah, yes – egalitarian Australia … where somehow it’s become political habit to reward the wealthy with disproportionately more material flattery from the state than those who have less.
Hell, let’s start this analysis with last week’s news from New South Wales. Faced with an imminent state election, the conservative premier, Dominic Perrottet, is banking his leadership fortunes – quite literally – on a reward-the-rich scheme that his campaign has the zealot’s temerity to call a “future fund”.
