%T Australia: inequality and prosperity and their impacts in a radical welfare state %A Peter Whiteford %I Crawford School of Public Policy %D 2013 %K Employment, %K Poverty, %K Economics %U https://apo.org.au/node/33466 %X Over the last 30 years or so the Australian economy has been subject to wide-ranging reforms. These reforms include reducing high protective tariffs on imported goods and removing some non-tariff barriers, floating the Australian dollar, deregulating the financial services sector, deregulating the labour market, increasing efficiency between the federal and state branches of government, privatizing government-owned industries, and reforming the tax system. %9 Report