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By Kim on August 18, 2011
We learned last week that Joe Hockey plans to cut $70 billion from government spending (as he has to do to fund Tony Abbott’s Direct Action and parental leave policies, and to make up for all sorts of foregone revenue [...]
Posted in Economics, Featured, Policy, Politics | Tagged Australia, Capitalism, debt, deficit, Economics, fiscal policy, GDP, GNI, gross national income, investment, Joe Hockey, Julia Gillard, Keynes, Philip Pilkington, profit, resources boom, resources super profits tax, social democracy |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 8, 2011
I intend to write on Erik Olin Wright’s important book Envisioning Real Utopias, but I thought it might be useful to make it a five part series, rather than the world’s longest blog post. I’d also like to have a [...]
Posted in Featured, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Charles Fourier, Enlightenment, envisioning realistic utopias, erik olin wright, Hayek, imaginary, John Locke, Marx, Marxism, neo-liberalism, philosophy, political philosophy, political theory, Popper, social change, social democracy, Sociology, Thomas Hobbes, utopia, utopian socialism |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 21, 2011
With a revival of debates about inequality, social democrats need to start by analysing what we’re up against in current misconceptions about equality.
Posted in Philosophy, Politics | Tagged Branko Milanovic, equality, formal equality, Gillardism, Hayek, inequality, legal equality, political philosophy, social democracy, social democrats, substantive equality |
By Guest Poster on September 26, 2010
Originally published at Overland and reproduced with their kind permission. As he battled terminal illness in late 2009, acclaimed historian Tony Judt delivered a lecture at NYU that would become the basis for his final book. But rather than be [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, International, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged Book review, ideology, ill fares the land, social democracy, tony judt |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 20, 2010
Early this month, I contested the idea that this campaign was a boring race. It didn’t take long for that notion to be junked. But the perception that there’s no salient difference between the two parties has had a stronger [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Philosophy | Tagged Ben Eltham, campaign strategy, choice, Culture Wars, Deakinite liberalism, Federal Election 2010, ideology, John Howard, Julia Gillard, liberalism, libertarians, social democracy, social neoliberalism, statism, The Greens, Tony Abbott, welfare state |
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 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 May 1, 2010
As already documented on LP, Kevin Rudd occupied himself this week by performing perhaps the most spectacular policy backflip imaginable, the sidelining of the CPRS. Or perhaps unimaginable, because I suspect very few people saw this coming. Rudd’s climate change [...]
Posted in Climate change, Federal Elections, Howardia, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, backflip, class cleavages, Climate change, cprs, ets, Federal Election 2010, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lindsay Tanner, martin ferguson, May Day, paul norton, political culture, political sociology, reform, reversal, social democracy, Tanya Plibersek, The Greens, Tony Abbott, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 16, 2010
Peter Black from Electronic Frontiers Australia asked me to contribute to a series of posts the EFA is publishing to draw attention to its current fundraising campaign. Please consider donating to the EFA in order to fund its continued work [...]
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Blogging, Ethics, Government, History, Life, Policy, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged ALP, biopolitics, Bob Carr, Capitalism, censorship, civil liberties, efa, electronic frontiers australia, expertise, Francis Fukuyama, freedom, governance, governmentality, ideology, internet filter, labor party, labourism, left, mark latham, michel foucault, neo-liberalism, New Labour, personal freedom, Policy, political communication, rationality, risk society, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, state labor governments, statism, stephen conroy, ulrich beck |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 25, 2010
The departure of Nick Minchin from the frontbench has been accompanied by speculation that Tony Abbott should move Barnaby Joyce from Finance to Energy and Resources, the portfolio Minchin had occupied. Joyce is said to have expertise in this area, [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Christopher Pearson, economic management, economic policy, finance, Henry Tax review, ideology, liberalism, National Broadband Network, Nick Minchin, resources rent, schools, social democracy, statism, stimulus, tax, Tony Abbott |
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