18 January 2008

Australia a class-ridden society afterall

NEWS.com.au Business.

In terms of inter-generational mobility, the research found Australia is no better than supposedly class-ridden Britain but superior to the US.

It compared the incomes of fathers and sons over a 70-year period, finding little improvement in the past 40 years despite the introduction of socially progressive reforms.

Many Australians like to kid themselves that this is a classless society. Its not.

18 Jan 2008 17:12:25

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