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By Mark Bahnisch on December 17, 2009
Back in August, I had this to say about Anna Bligh’s Labor regime in Queensland: Anna Bligh’s credibility was one of the few things the ALP had going for it in the March state election. Her opposition to the dictates [...]
Posted in Politics, Queensland | Tagged ALP, Andrew Crook, Anna Bligh, AWU, Bernie Fraser, Bligh government, Cameron Dick, caucus, Crikey, Grace Grace, Graham Young, Greenslopes, John Mickel, Kevin Rudd, labor party, left faction, left unions, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mike Kaiser, Nicole Scurrah, Paul Lucas, Peter Beattie, Polls, privatisation, QCU, QR, Queensland ALP, Queensland election 2009, Queensland politics, Queensland rail, special conference, unions, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 18, 2009
Apropos of my post the other day on Karl Polanyi and “embedding the economy”, Andrew Crook has an excellent essay at New Matilda on the phony war over neoliberalism sparked off by Kevin Rudd’s musings in The Monthly.
Posted in Activism, Markets, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Andrew Crook, ideology, Karl Polanyi, Kevin Rudd, neo-liberalism, New Matilda, political sociology, Politics, social democracy, social market, social movements, The Monthly, trade unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 10, 2008
I’ve noticed some wild leaps of logic, if that’s the right word, in the “analysis” of Julia Gillard’s Forward With Fairness IR bill. Apparently, everything that may have happened in the past that would scare employers (probably including a return [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations, Media | Tagged Andrew Crook, Brad Norington, business, business lobby, class war, Crikey, employer associations, employers, Industrial Relations, IR, Julia Gillard, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, News Limited, Policy, unionism, unions, WorkChoices, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 9, 2008
Iceland may be a barometer for what’s changing in the world economy. It was only very recently that the Milton Friedman fan club was hailing Iceland as a “Nordic Tiger”, lauding its flat taxes and praising its “economic freedom”. “Economic [...]
Posted in Activism, Consumerism, Culture, Economics, Ethics, International, Markets, Media, Politics, Poverty, Sociology, USA | Tagged alan greenspan, ALP, Andrew Crook, banks, Ben bernanke, Bill Clinton, Capitalism, credit crisis, credit crunch, deregulation, economic crisis, economic policy, federal reserve, financial meltdown, financialisation, globalisation, gordon brown, Guy Rundle, Iceland, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liquidity crisis, Mark Davis, Milton Friedman, neo-liberalism, political economy, politics & government, recession, regulation, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, stock markets, subprime mortgages, TARP, us economy, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street, world economy |
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