Wayne Swan

Wayne Swan is the President of the Labor Party. He served as Australia’s Treasurer from 2007 to 2013 and was Deputy Prime Minister. Wayne is credited with helping save Australia from the GFC and in 2011 was crowned World Finance Minister of the year.As the author of numerous books on social policy, he has lead the domestic and global debates on the dangers of economic inequality.Wayne Swan joined Misha Zelinsky for a chinwag about what went wrong at the 2019 election for Labor, why fiscal policy still matters in economic management, how far right nationalists are using inequality to win government around the world, why big philanthropy is a big problem for democracy, how Australia should manage an assertive Chinese Communist Party and where to from here for social democrats around the world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.