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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 26, 2010
There’s been a bit of word play on another thread about John Quiggin‘s discussion of the coinage of the term ‘Agnatology’ to describe “the study of the manufacture of ignorance”. There are resonances between his diagnosis of the political right [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Feminism, History, International, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, autonomy, bogan politics, Donald Sassoon, end of ideology, Feminism, Geoffrey Barker, ideology, ignorance, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labour party, labourism, left, Liberal Democrats, liberation movements, light on the hill, managerialism, mutulalism, New Labour, Nina Power, Nordic democracies, political culture, political economy, political institutions, political sociology, right, Rudd government, social change, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, sweden, Third Way, transformation |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 11, 2010
Bernard Keane in today’s Crikey email:
Posted in Climate change, Culture, Education, Politics, Sociology | Tagged bernard keane, climate change policy, Culture Wars, education revolution, federalism, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, managerialism, myschool, Paul Keating, political culture, political sociology, Politics, roof insulation, Rudd government, spin, state labor, stimulus, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 2, 2009
There’s been a lot of discussion in the wake of the GFC of imposing some sort of cap or limitation on executive and board remuneration. The basic idea – which was accepted by the G8 – goes to a real [...]
Posted in Economics, Government, Markets, Policy | Tagged board remuneration, executive salaries, free markets, g8, GFC, high incomes, incentives, Kevin Rudd, managerialism, neo-liberalism, progressive income tax, public companies, social democracy, super tax |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 27, 2009
Anyone who’s worked in a large public sector organisation will know how “efficiency dividends” work. Or don’t work. Or work in unintended ways – by destroying the capacity to do what your actual main purpose is. There’s a bit of [...]
Posted in Consumerism, Economics, Film, TV, Video etc, Markets | Tagged ABS, ALP, consumer spending, consumption, data, deflation, economic policy, Economics, economists, fiscal spending, Gerry Harvey, growth, Harvey Norman, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lindsay Tanner, managerialism, Peter Costello, Peter Martin, recession, Rudd govermnent, stimulus, Treasury |
By Guest Poster on December 17, 2008
Republished from Crikey with permission. Since it was announced in April, barely a peep has been heard from the Grattan Institute, Kevin Rudd’s $50 million super think tank named after a street abutting Melbourne University. Headed by ex-McKinsyite John Daley, [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Catalyst, cis, Gerard Henderson, Glyn Davis, Grattan Institute, ideas, IPA, John Roskam, Kevin Rudd, Lelbourne University, managerialism, OzProspect, PerCapita, policy making, public policy, Rudd government, Sydney institute, Terry Moran, think tanks |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 15, 2008
The Sydney Daily Telegraph, a newspaper which likes to see itself as some sort of courageous voice of the people, has been losing readers hand over fist, and more recently, an editor. The paper is also running a campaign for [...]
Posted in Elections, Media, NSW Government, Politics | Tagged constitution, Daily Telegraph, fixed terms, four year terms, managerialism, nathan rees, Nick Greiner, NSW Government, NSW Labor, Paul Kelly, recall, Westminister system |
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