Equality of opportunity, not of outcomes; it’s the classic free enterprise backbone of Liberal philosophy. So attacking Bill Shorten’s politics-of-envy declaration that ‘Tackling rising inequality will be a defining mission’ for a future Labor government should have been straightforward. Instead, Scott Morrison relied on a contestable survey that showed no evidence of rising inequality this century to claim that ‘income inequality has actually got better’.
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