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By Mark Bahnisch on April 11, 2010
I spoke yesterday at a Search Foundation Forum, Breaking the Addiction: challenging Bligh’s privatisation push, in Brisbane at the Workers’ Community Centre at Paddington. This is the text of my talk, written up from my notes: I The Bligh government’s [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, Government, History, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, autonomy, Bligh government, capacities, capital, Carole Ferrier, commodification, communitarianism, communities, corporatism, decommodification, democratic socialism, ETU, GFC, global financial crisis, globalisation, governmentality, History, homgenisation, homogenisation, ideology, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, John Quiggin, John-Paul Langbroek, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, managerialism, Media, neo-liberalism, New Labor, New Labour, nudge, Peter Beattie, political class, political culture, Polls, privatisation, QR, Queensland election 2009, queensland government, Queensland Greens, Queensland history, Queensland rail, radical brisbane, Ray Evans, resources, Sociology, Sunday Mail, T. J. Ryan, The Greens, trade unions, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 16, 2010
It must be ‘write an op/ed for Fairfax about something a political leader said to me’ week. First, Nina Funnell, and now Michael Perusco: I was in Canberra last week and had the opportunity to ask Opposition Leader Tony Abbott [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged communitarianism, community, fairfax, George Brandis, homelessness, housing policy, ideology, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, liberalism, Malcolm Turnbull, mark latham, Michael Perusco, neo-liberalism, Nina Funnell, political philosophy, political theory, Sacred Heart Mission, social housing, social inclusion, Sociology, Third Way, Tony Abbott, Tony Blair |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 1, 2009
While the ‘economic management debate’ rumbles along its predictable partisan grooves, something interesting has been taking place elsewhere – something of a concatenation of the better legacies of the communitarianism of the 90s and a shift in values which has [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Economics, Ethics, Notices, Sociology | Tagged BrisCulture, cheryl kernot, communitarianism, community, connectivity, creativity, event, global financial crisis, Griffith REVIEW, Participation Society, social enterprise, Sociology, State Library of Queensland, talk |
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