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By Mark Bahnisch on May 26, 2010
Wayne Swan recently said that mining company executives were either lying or displaying their ignorance in their statements about the Resources Super Profits Tax, a comment which apparently horrified Kerry O’Brien: how could this be true of respected business leaders? [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged ALP, Ben Chifley, executives, Fortescue, Gary Morgan, ideology, John Quiggin, John Ralston Saul, Kerry O'Brien, Labor, Media, minerals council, Miners, mining companies, mining industry, public interest, Q&A, Qanda, resources capital, resources rent, rspt, Rudd government, scare campaign, socialism, tax, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 1, 2009
As Kevin Rudd joined Gordon Brown in decrying “the false god” of “unfettered free markets” in London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, Janet Albrechtsen got her apoplexy in early, lamenting the fact that Kevin Rudd doesn’t read Hayek (apparently Ayaan Hirsi Ali [...]
Posted in China, Economics, Europe, History, International, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged Amartya Sen, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Capitalism, G20, GFC, Giovanni Arrighi, global financial crisis, gordon brown, Hayek, Janet Albrechtsen, Karl Marx, Kevin Rudd, Keynes, London, Markets, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, neo-liberalism, political economy, public intellectual, public interest, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, St Paul's Cathedral, St Paul's Institute |
By tigtog on October 27, 2008
In light of the call from Whistleblowers Australia for legislation providing greater protection for those who make public interest disclosures, I’m curious. How many people here have experience of being on either end of a whistleblowing scandal? Have you had [...]
Posted in Ethics, Industrial Relations, Law, Sociology | Tagged corrupt, exploitation, public interest, public interest disclosures, scandal, unsafe, whistleblowers |
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