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"I'm coming from my background working in this purpose-led sustainable business space, where you see things like worker cooperatives having a really positive impact, both from the workers POV and from the business POV. Because that more collective decision-making, and an interest in the success of the business, delivers better long term outcomes. Both commercially and for individuals."
#QuilaeWong, 2026
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"So I absolutely think we still have the need for unions and collective bargaining. Particularly in those industries where workers are at a disadvantage, compared to the negotiating power of the business itself.
But we would also like to see a shift in the way we do business. Where business owners ... are incentivised to give the best possible terms to workers, because that's what creates the best outcomes for the business itself."
#QuilaeWong, 2026
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"There's still absolutely a need and a role for publicly provisioned services, healthcare systems, education systems, we don't want to see an erosion of that from the government, or what it provides. We want to see a strengthening of that, if anything.
But the Citizens Income still retains some of that flexibility and freedom for individuals to choose how that money is spent."
#QuilaeWong, 2026
(1/?)
"And if you look at many of the trials that have been done around the world, those people that really need that money, when they're given it, usually the first things they do spend it on are clothing for their families, healthcare appointments, groceries, food. But people have different circumstances and they need to use that money in different ways."
#QuilaeWong, 2026
(2/2)
"We want the best expertise to be in the public service. I don't think we should be buying in that expertise, particularly if it's being done on a regular basis."
#QuilaeWong, 2026
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