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How do classes look in Australia?

Australia should be a classless society..right?

  • Class struggle is alive and well in Australia

  • Support and avenues for opportunity

  • People will not change unless: uncomfortable enough in current situation or if can realistically see change

  • entrenched attitude within generations

COSMOPOLITANS

  • One-third of the earliest wealthy in Australia were ex-convicts

  • Australia's social welfare system = economic level playing field

  • Free education, tax the rich, offer concession rates on a wide range of everyday living items to the unemployed, pensioners and those with low incomes

  • Social mobility
  • Tertiary-educated and articulate

  • Importance of education and social moderation of behaviour and attitudes

  • ‘Knowledge classes’

BLEND OF BOTH

  • Blend of both broad categories

  • Immediate thoughts (eg. where they live / where they went to school.

  • Ja'mie - comes from a wealthy, well educated background, but has little tolerance for those outside her own "class" but tries to fit in with mock acceptance

HISTORICALLY

PAROCHIALS

  • Ordinary Australians'

  • 'Battlers'

  • Approve conventional gender roles

  • Attribute violence and social dysfunction to individual choices more than social forces

  • Agricultural and industrial economies

  • Generally uncertain about jobs

  • Threatened by change

wealthy class

  • owned the factories, the farms and the businesses

underclass

  • people who worked for them

Marxian view

  • classes distinguished by who creates wealth in society, who owns it, and in whose interest political power is exercised.

In Australia is class

determined by wealth?

STATISTICS

  • World's fifth-most unequal developed nation

  • Estimated 100,000 homeless people

  • Nearly one in three adult Australians now receive some form of government income support

  • In 2003, a study found 86% of shares were held by the wealthiest 10% of families

  • The top 20% of Australians owned 72% of all property and the bottom 50% owned less than 2%

  • The richest 20% of Australians can expect to live an average of six years longer than the poorest 20%

Can we consider Australia a 'classless society?'

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