Opinion

Big government is good

By Ebony Bennett
October 6 2018 - 12:00am

Australia is on track to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035. Co-inventor of the vaccine Professor Ian Frazer believes it will eventually be eliminated globally, like small pox. It is a truly remarkable feat of human ingenuity. Eliminating cervical cancer is also an unqualified success story of how government can and should improve the lives of its citizens. And it is not the only success story that should make us question the neoliberal commitment to what is euphemistically called 'lean government'. Big government is good.

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