The former treasurer, who heads the Chifley thinktank’s inclusive prosperity commission, will join other leaders at a national reform summit on Thursday
The former Labor treasurer Wayne Swan has blasted the poverty of Australia’s reform debate, arguing business is continuing down a “well-trodden path” of pursuing economic policies that will concentrate wealth and increase inequality at the expense of long-term growth.
On Thursday Swan will meet fellow participants in the inclusive prosperity commission attached to Labor’s official thinktank, the Chifley research centre, to consider results of a reform summit being spearheaded by two national newspapers this week.
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