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By Guest Poster on August 17, 2010
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged Ben Eltham, CPD, Federal Election 2010, neoliberalism, social democracy, Thinking Points, tony judt |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 19, 2010
Gary Sauer-Thompson at Public Opinion has skewered David Burchell’s latest op/ed, which includes a typification of two different types of voters:
Posted in Elections, Environment, federal election 2010, Howardia, Immigration, Sociology | Tagged ALP, Climate change, Culture Wars, David Burchell, Federal Election 2010, globalisation, Labor, neoliberalism, Sociology, sustainability |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 3, 2010
In a lot of the discussion here and elsewhere about the drift of ALP voters to The Greens, there’s an assumption that The Greens represent a purer left alternative to Labor. That assumption might be a tad simplistic, if Tad [...]
Posted in Activism, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, APSA, Australian Greens, Ben Spies-Butcher, Bob Brown, class politics, data, Ethics, ideology, Labor, left, Macquarie University, neoliberalism, overland, Peter Singer, political parties, political science, political sociology, psephology, social democracy, Sociology, Stewart Jackson, Sydney University, Tad Tietze, The Greens |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 25, 2009
Following on from one of the conclusions that can be drawn from the thread on Bernard Keane’s critique of the Rudd government’s involvement with bankers – that there’s a growing perception that the long term implications of “emergency” economic decisions [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy, Industrial Relations, Markets, Politics, Poverty | Tagged ALP, AMWU, car manufacturing, employment, free markets, industry assistance, industry policy, Labor, labour market, labour market programs, neoliberalism, Rudd government, skills, Tenneco, unemployment, unions, vehicle parts |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 22, 2009
In a piece in today’s Crikey sparked off by Kevin Rudd’s remarks about the difficulty Australian banks are having accessing foreign capital, Bernard Keane makes some good points about the response to the global financial crisis: Rudd’s rather anodyne response [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Policy | Tagged banks, bernard keane, economic policy, Economics, finance, financial sector, global financial crisis, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Labor, nationalisation, neoliberalism, Paul Krugman, Rudd government |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 12, 2009
The economic news of the day was a fall in the number of jobs advertised – as measured by ANZ – to “recession levels” – the eighth successive monthly drop. A number of economists extrapolated this to an unemployment rate [...]
Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, International, Poverty, Sociology | Tagged ANZ, employment, Fair Pay Commission, global financial crisis, Ian Harper, jobs data, Julie Bishop, Keynes, Liberal Party, Mike Steketee, neoliberalism, social inequality, unemployment |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 12, 2009
With George W. Bush having a little over a week in office left to go of what has been a very long eight years, it’s timely to turn to the question of the long term implications for the political strength [...]
Posted in Climate change, Environment, Ethics, International, Markets, Science, Sociology, USA | Tagged ALP, anti-science, Australian politics, Climate change, cprs, epistemology, George W. Bush, ideas, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Labor, neoliberalism, political culture, right wing, Rudd government, Science, science studies, short term thinking, Sociology, white paper |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 5, 2009
This post is a sequel to my previous one on economic faith and doctrines. When reflecting further about the ideological construction of “oppressive state intervention” and some of the comments made on the thread, I kept thinking about the fact [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged economic liberalism, Economics, epistemology, faith, global financial crisis, ideologies, Leo Panitch, liberalism, mixed economy, neoliberalism, political ideologies, political philosophy, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 2, 2009
Gary Sauer-Thompson has trained an observant eye on an editorial in the Fin: Yes, the road ahead looks difficult. But this is no time to abandon our faith in the capacity for enterprises and markets free of oppressive state intervention [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sociology | Tagged economic liberalism, Economics, efficient markets hypothesis, Enlightenment, Enlightenment thought, epistemology, faith, global financial crisis, ideologies, John Quiggin, liberalism, mixed economy, neoliberalism, Religion, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 2, 2009
As is traditional in Australia, the first day of the new year saw the release of cabinet records from thirty years ago at state and federal level. Incidentally, the underwhelming nature of what was revealed should put a big question [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environment, Government, Health, Howardia, Industrial Relations, International, Markets, Media, Policy, Poverty, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged barack obama, cabinet, Climate change, Employee Free Choice Act, healthcare, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Media, neoliberalism, new media, political economy, political sociology, Politics, predictions, press gallery, Rudd government, social democracy, social networking, unionism, us economy, US politics |
By Kim on December 19, 2008
End of year reflection on the state of politics and the nation type articles can be interesting. They can be tedious rehashes of trivia and reinventions of an already distorted reality to prove punditarian narratives r us and are ace [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Economics, Energy, Federal Elections, Foreign Elections, International, Markets, Media, Policy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged Activism, barack obama, bernard keane, citizen engagement, Climate change, cprs, economic management, emissions trading, Glenn Stevens, interest rates, John Hewson, Kevin Rudd, neoliberalism, political sociology, Politics, public policy, reserve bank, Rick Warren, Rudd government, US election 2008, white paper, year in review |
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