Jack Waterford: Our future hijacked by our past

By Jack Waterford
Updated April 23 2018 - 9:37pm, first published March 6 2015 - 10:36pm

Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey want to start a conversation about the future, based on the materials in the intergenerational report issued by politicians this week. But the future 40 years forward is one they are trying to hijack, for present political purposes to justify an agenda that will not serve Australian now or tomorrow.

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