Towards an economy that works for all

Twenty-five years ago, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference published Common Wealth for the Common Good: A Statement on the Distribution of Wealth in Australia. Published in the early days of neoliberalism, that document was primarily focused on the distribution of wealth. Part of the critique of that document, as of much church teaching of the time, was that the church did not take seriously enough what was required for the creation of wealth, or what was to be done in the use of wealth once it was distributed.