Obviously Britain and Australia are different countries, but many political changes have occurred in parallel – for example privatisation.
So it is heartening that the following was observed from a landmark study of public opinion:
- Favour public ownership of the water (83%), electricity (77%), gas (77%), railway (76%) and bank (50%) sectors
- Favour wage caps for CEOs
- Government needs to do more to regulate how businesses behave
- Hold an unfavourable view of ‘capitalism’ as a concept, viewing it as ‘greedy’, ‘selfish’ and ‘corrupt’