I read with interest the recent statement by the Solicitor-General for Western Australia, Joshua Thomson SC, that arguments for meritocracy were “flawed”.
The move came after multiple scandals emerged, involving not just Australia’s largest airline and “national flag carrier,” which Joyce had led since 2008, but the Labor government.
The Socialist Equality Party urges workers and youth to reject both the Yes and the No cases presented by the ruling political establishment and calls for an active boycott campaign to oppose the referendum itself.
The report has already been used by sections of the political and media establishment to insist that governments cannot afford projected expenditure on aged pensions, healthcare and other social necessities.