WTF? - Not Again,
It shouldn't be controversial, but:
• It would make most of the controversial measures unnecessary.
• Until the pandemic hit, the government was doing the opposite by trying to balance the budget.

Aidan,
I think you need to included examples of how the government can create these conditions.
Apart from during wartime and its immediate aftermath there are few if any examples where there have been close to full employment or suitable work for everyone.
So any suggestions that you have would on how a government could achieve this would indeed be controversial.
Change is often counter-intuitive - that is why a debit tax might address budget issues and an UBI appears too expensive with current thinking.

Reckon we have troubles now? Couldn't get any worse? Well, cop this.

The Australian's analysis of a state by state Newspoll suggests that Albanese could be our Prime Minister next year.

Morrison doesn't deserve the job - but, Albanese!

What we need to do is to build our own trains, ferries and cars here, rather than buy them from overseas. In other words, make our manufacturing industry the power house it once was. This gives us two benefits: (1) more employment + increase in technological knowledge; and (2) more wealth as the wages and purchases are expended internally. In addition, we should develop the green industries to combat climate change and to prepare ourselves for the natural disasters, such as bush fires, cyclones and floods, by investing money and labour into programs that build our resistance and defence against these recurring events, which are becoming more frequent. If we plan ahead then we are in a better position than sitting and waiting for events to occur. The first thing we have to do is plan.

Oh GOD! "Finally, the big omission from the 2021 IGR is (still) any attempt to quantify the impact of climate change. Climate change is the elephant in the room, such as the risk of storm damage along the Australian coast and the problem of coastal erosion. Ironically, a few weeks after the IGR appeared, there was a building collapse on the coast in Florida which cost 54 dead with 86 unaccounted for. Climate change contributed to that tragedy".

I expected some clown would try to blame CO2 for this building falling down. I guess CO2 somehow prevented the builder putting enough reinforcing steel into the thing. What a naughty gas.

The fact that the clown tells us that global warming is a big problem shows us he doesn't have enough math to understand the physics involved. That being a simple fact also proves he doesn't have enough math to understand the result of his theories. Surely anyone with even adequate arithmetic can see that increased migration is merely kicking the aging population can down the road.

This is our real problem. We have been kicking this problem can down the road for so long, but we have now caught up to it, & its spilling all it's problems right in our lap.

Time to bite the bullet, fix the education system so we can train our own skilled workers, & start living with in our means. Getting rid of pie in the sky planners & cutting immigration would be a good start.

While I can agree with most of this! The future problems are inherent with both the cost of energy and our two-tiered tax system! Both of which need urgent reform as if there were no time to waste! And because there isn't! One cannon lead asleep at the wheel nor while we sleepwalk toward the future!

The tax system needs a complete root, branch and twig reform and simple common sense tells us the current system is not fit for purpose! And needs to be replaced in its entirety with a simple, single, unavoidable, 15% flat tax that kicks in above a very generous tax-free threshold!

And such a system would all but double consolidated revenue and not need to sit in coffers waiting for reconciliation! Nor would it be subject to bracket creep which would be removed forever! And revenue growth would be attached, for all time to economic growth/productivity!
It's too easy!

Other than that, what we require is cheaper than coal energy to ensure we have the necessary economic and production growth to ensure the above! And that energy is MSR thorium!
Which could be reticulated at 1 cent PKWH!
Alan B.