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By Mark Bahnisch on August 29, 2008
Club Troppo’s Don Arthur and I started a correspondence by email about some of the issues I raised in my post the other day about neo-liberalism and thinktanks, and the very rapid Blairisation of the Rudd/Gillard agenda (which has certainly [...]
Posted in Education, Ethics, History, International, Philosophy, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, battle of ideas, Blair government, Carl Schmitt, classical liberalism, Coalition, education policy, education revolution, governmentality, historical sociology, jacques derrida, John Howard, John Locke, Julia Gillard, Karl Marx, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Margaret Thatcher, michel foucault, neoliberalism, New Labour, political ideologies, political imaginary, political philosophy, political sociology, school education, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of ideologies, state formation, Tony Blair |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 28, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mark-davis.jpg" align=left At one stage, having read a lecture by Mark Davis in Overland, I thought his new book was going to be an update of Gangland. I’ve just started reading The Land of Plenty: Australia in the 2000s [...]
Posted in Anzac Day, Australiana, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Ethics, History, Indigenous, Markets, Media, Nationalism, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged 2007 federal election, ALP, Australian culture, Australian history, Australian nationalism, Australian studies, battle of ideas, Book review, Culture Wars, egalitarianism, fair go, Gangland, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Mark Davis, Melbourne University Press, neoliberalism, Nettie Palmer, political culture, political ideologies, politics & government, Rudd government, social democracy, sociology of culture, The Land of Plenty, Writings |
We're They're all neo-liberals now?
By Mark Bahnisch on August 26, 2008
The think tank culture is weird. Although there are certainly think tanks around that put some effort into commissioning and fostering quality research, the origin of the beast lay in the business of shaping and shifting public debate through the [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Climate change, Economics, Education, Markets, Media, Philosophy, Policy, Politics, Poverty, Sociology | Tagged ALP, Australian progressive think tanks, Australian think tanks, battle of ideas, Catalyst, Centre for Independent Studies, Centre for Policy Development, Climate change, climate change denialism, commentariat, Dennis Glover, evidence based policy, Jon Cruddas, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, neo-liberalism, New Labour, Per Capita, political journalism, reforming Centre, Rudd government, Scottish enlightenment, social democracy, Sociology, The Enlightenment, think tanks, Third Way, Tony Blair, VET policy, welfare policy, welfare quarantining | 68 Responses