Desmond: given the state of the state of Tasmania this article covers many of the issues causing concerns to your readers social equity, governance, education, crime, unequal access and distribution of services. The short comings of evidenced based policy and politics and the importance of the best education for all make this article a very good read with some telling quotes and stats.
The argument of this fascinating and deeply provoking book is easy to summarise: among rich countries, the more unequal ones do worse according to almost every quality of life indicator you can imagine. They do worse even if they are richer overall, so that per capita GDP turns out to be much less significant for general wellbeing than the size of the gap between the richest and poorest 20 per cent of the population (the basic measure of inequality the authors use). The evidence that Wilkinson and Pickett supply to make their case is overwhelming. Read more here
David Runciman, London Review of Books
