DEPUTY Prime Minister Wayne Swan admits the federal government is on the nose with voters, but says Labor is best placed to deliver better schools and disability care for Australians at the upcoming federal election.
In an essay, Fair Go Under Fire, the treasurer says Australia now stands at one of the "decisive points" in its national story.
"I know the Labor party isn't exactly flavour of the month at the moment and we haven't always pulled the right rein every single time over the last few years," he writes in the essay published on Saturday by Labor's official think-tank, The Chifley Institute.
But every government has successes and failures, and Mr Swan said Labor had made the right economic calls when the global financial crisis hit in 2008, much to its political cost.
"At stake is something essential to our national character: the idea of the fair go," Mr Swan said.
He said Labor's goal to share the nation's prosperity and to reject mindless austerity was under threat from Opposition Leader Tony Abbott at the federal election on September 14.
"A dark cloud is gathering over it," Mr Swan said.
"And so I want you to think of this coming election not just as a contest between (Prime Minister) Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, or between Labor and Liberal, but as a referendum on the fair go."
Mr Swan said the choice was between opportunities for schools and a national disability insurance scheme, against coalition policies for tougher industrial laws and higher taxes for low-income earners.
The treasurer also argued that while Mr Abbott was reluctant to release the coalition's policy detail, its intentions could be gleaned by the policies advocated by right-wing think-tanks, such as the Centre for Independent Studies and the Institute of Public Affairs.
"They think harsh austerity is simple commonsense. But this simply ignores the hard reality of real world economics," Mr Swan said.
"When expenditure in an economy is savagely slashed, aggregate demand is suppressed and unemployment rocks up, and ultimately savings in the economy (including the budget position) deteriorate, and in the long run we are all poorer."
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