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Richard Mulgan is a director and lecturer at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University.
Kevin Rudd and other Christians have been inspired by Christ’s concern for the disadvantaged. They have seen state-based social justice policies as a way of institutionalising this concern. But such compassion can easily slide into patronising assumptions about the distance between those who give and those who receive.