Welfare downunder

In a speech to the Menzies Research Centre, Mr Howard offered no new policy directions, but defended the welfare system against critics of "middle-class welfare". (...)
Rejecting welfare and tax cuts such as those proposed by Sydney's right-wing Centre for Independent Studies think tank, he said Australians wanted a government that was "lean but not mean".(...)
"I have never seen economic liberalism as an end in itself or a stand-alone political credo," Mr Howard said. "A country, as Edmund Burke observed, 'is not a thing of mere physical locality'. Nor is it just individuals in a market place.

[via The Age]
O "CIS" lançou recentemente um livro onde propõe alterações ao sistema fiscal e de assistência social na Austrália.