We’ve learned that ignoring the hip pocket is a big mistake. Australia would benefit from a courageous reset of economic and social policy

Wouldn’t it be nice, as the Beach Boys sang, if the US midterm election results represented a return to kindness?

It would be a fitting closing of the circle, given that Hillary Clinton campaigned on a “love Trumps hate” platform in 2016. It certainly didn’t back then, and I doubt it did two weeks ago despite the Democrats being quick to claim the results as a return to civility and care.

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