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The most common criticism of my work to come from the left (e.g. the preceding article by Battin and Ramsay) is that I have downplayed the extent and significance of poverty, and deprivation more generally, in Australia. The left has always been motivated by moral repugnance at material deprivation, manifested in poverty and income inequality. I argue that, while deprivation has not disappeared in affluent countries such as Australia, to cling to a worldview that arose in a society in which the bulk of the population suffered material deprivation is incongruous and politically marginalises those who cannot recognise that we live in an era characterised by widespread affluence.

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26 Mar 2007

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26 Mar 2007

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Clive Hamilton

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