“Governments are keen to avoid that other neo-liberal shibboleth, taxes, to meet this kind of emergency.”
The Communist Party of Australia’s Bob Briton writes:
…Recent floods will no doubt provide another cue for the neo-liberals to push their small government “medicine”. For working people it must be a spur to build the political forces that will put public assets back under public ownership and control and take urgent action commensurate with the problem of climate change.