Benjamin Clark
Freelance writer@ben_clark56
Benjamin Clark is a Melbourne-based freelance writer and arts worker. His writing has appeared in Crikey and The Age, and focuses on Australian politics and culture.
It's in the government's interest to push the narrative of an "aspirational class", but this wildly obscures what's really going on.
For all the right's railing about community values, they sure do make it hard to live in a community.
New union Hospo Voice and Victorian Labor are confronting wage theft in hospitality. But are consumers?
Why does a 20-year-old deserve less pay than a 21-year-old doing the same job? If the unions want more young people on board, this is the way to get them.
That champions of universal basic income think the lives of artists — or any workers — would flourish under UBI shows that they are out of touch with the wealth systems they are trying to disrupt.