In an essay in The Monthly, Kevin Rudd wrote that "the time has come for a vision for Australia not limited by the narrowest of definitions of our national self-interest." The family must not be "sacrificed at the altar of market reality ... progressive politics argues that the mandate of the state goes beyond the exclusive celebration of the self ... a properly functioning society embraces the interests of both self and other--not just the first to the absolute exclusion of the second."

He is right. What we need is a new societal deal, one that both opens the world of work to women, but respects love's labour in the shadow economy of care. Rudd's sense that we must create ...

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