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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 December 23, 2009
The Centre for Policy Development has released a new edition of its Thinking Points newsletter, on the topic of climate change. Miriam Lyons argues that “climate change is a problem which requires us to marshall the best of science and [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged Ben Eltham, Centre for Policy Development, CFMEU, Climate change, climate change policy, Climate Group, Copenhangen, CPD, institute for environmental studies, just transition, Mark Diesendorf, Miriam Lyons, paul gilding, Peter Colley, Rudd government, Rupert Posner, Thinking Points, trade unions, UNSW |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 18, 2009
Apropos of my post the other day on Karl Polanyi and “embedding the economy”, Andrew Crook has an excellent essay at New Matilda on the phony war over neoliberalism sparked off by Kevin Rudd’s musings in The Monthly.
Posted in Activism, Markets, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Andrew Crook, ideology, Karl Polanyi, Kevin Rudd, neo-liberalism, New Matilda, political sociology, Politics, social democracy, social market, social movements, The Monthly, trade unions |
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