The Vision Thing

Abstract

Much of the response to the Coalition's Fightback pack­ age has been specific and fairly technical: the govern­ ment has tried to find holes in the figures; other critics have tried to determine the end-effect on income dis­ tribution of all the various new flows of money entailed in the package. From the point of view of the public debate, though, these sorts of responses presumably only have a limited impact. What are the areas in which the labour movement can attack the GST package at the levels of principles, of generalities, of directions, of visions?