3S07 The Future of Progressive Politics

Tutor/Facilitator Robert Salter

When
Date: on/from Wed 4 Feb 2026 to Wed 18 Mar 2026
Frequency: Feb 4&25 & Mar18
Class time: 10:00-12:00

Delivered F2F

Where
Mary Kehoe Centre, Room 3

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This course will consider the policies that our governments might implement to maximise our health and happiness. Currently, millions of us are not getting our basic needs met in areas like healthcare, education, housing, transport, and care for those requiring it. The government needs more revenue, and low-income households do too, so we’ll consider how this can happen.  In the process we’ll discover some surprising facts, such as that the highest taxing countries in the world are also the happiest, that Australia is one of the lowest taxing countries in the OECD, when you include all taxes, and that it costs the government more to keep people homeless than to house them. We are a rich country; we can afford to meet everyone’s basic needs. We just need fresh thinking, guided by the planet’s  success stories.

TUTOR: Dr Rob Salter is retired after a varied career in the community sector and academia. He has run this course in two other U3As, Yarra and Merri-bek.

4 & 25 February     and 18 March

 NEW

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