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By Guest Poster on August 22, 2011
Am I the only person who is thoroughly sick of the neoliberals and right-wingers carping on about the evils of the welfare state? It was, after all, they who invented it.
Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, Politics | Tagged Culture Wars, ideology, jobs, neoliberal economics, politics&govt, unemployment, unemployment benefits, welfare policy, welfare reform |
By Kim on August 17, 2011
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech to the House of Commons in the aftermath of the English riots set the tone for a bizarre crackdown: Responsibility for crime always lies with the criminal. But crime has a context. And we [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Europe, Featured, International, Law, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged Axel bruns, benefits, Blackberry, Boris Johnson, civil disorder, Conservative Party, crackdown, criminal justice, David Cameron, evictions, facebook, Guy Rundle, law and order, London, london burning, Noel Pearson, Owen Hatherley, Race, riots, riots aftermath, sentencing, social exclusion, social housing, social media, social theory, Sociology, Tories, twitter, welfare policy |
By Kim on August 11, 2010
Continuing an irregular series commenting on how the election looks to commercial tv viewers: commercial free to air is the biggest single source of information for voters. There mustn’t be any Oakes/Latho self-referential “news” tonight, because wild weather and record [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Media | Tagged Andrew Robb, broadband, Channel Nine, commercial tv, costings, Federal Election 2010, Julia Gillard, Laurie Oakes, leak, mark latham, news, political communication, Tony Abbott, Treasury, Wayne Swan, welfare policy, welfare reform |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 9, 2010
A lot has been said about Tony Abbott’s parental leave speech yesterday and today on this blog, on these two threads. As I suspected would occur, most of the qualifications and the actual non-policy aspect of the policy were not [...]
Posted in Economics, Feminism, Howardia, Industrial Relations, Media, Parenting, Policy, Politics, Women | Tagged ALP, benefits, casual workers, Coalition, conservatism, employers, esping-andersen, federal minimum wage, Feminism, ideologly, ideology, income inequality, Labor, Liberal Party, parental leave, productivity commission, social policy, Tony Abbott, transfer payments, welfare policy, welfare state, Women, workers |
By Guest Poster on March 9, 2009
Imagine a welfare scheme that gave minimum wage earners nothing, but handed out $11,000 a year to those on the top income tax rate. Surely if any political party ever suggested such a scheme they would be run out of [...]
Posted in Economics, Policy, Poverty, Sociology | Tagged Centre for Policy Development, compulsory superannuation, CPD, equity, progressive taxation, social inclusion, tax, taxation policy, welfare policy |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 7, 2009
Simon Jackman has the good oil on what Bob Brown and Steve Fielding are putting on the table as Senate deliberations on Kevin Rudd’s fiscal stimulus continue. Both are emphasising the unemployed and job creation (with Brown arguing for green [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Australian Greens, benefits, Bob Brown, Family First, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, Henry review, Ken Henry, Kevin Rudd, minor party, Rudd government, Senate, Senate Committee, Senate passage, Senators, social inequality, social policy, Steve Fielding, stimulus package, The Greens, unemployed, unemployment, welfare policy |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 2, 2009
On the same day the Reserve Bank Board meets after its summer break, Federal Parliament resumes tomorrow. Among the bills which will be considered is one embodying the loosening of penalties on jobseekers who “breach” agreements with employment services providers. [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Poverty | Tagged benefits, Coalition, employment services, federal parliament, Julia Gillard, newstart, nick xenophon, reserve bank, social policy, unemployment, welfare policy |
By Guest Poster on January 27, 2009
In the 2005 “dramatic documentary” The American Ruling Class, big oil heir turned Harper’s editor turned armchair socialist Lewis Lapham narrates the career choices confronting a group of shiny young Yale graduates. With their future at the crossroads, Lapham asks, [...]
Posted in Activism, Ethics, Policy, Sociology, Technology, USA | Tagged Alain touraine, class, Ethics, Lewis Lapham, neo-liberalism, Obama administration, Obama staffers, Politics, public service, social change, social movements, Sociology, Technology, USA, Wall Street, welfare policy, West Wing |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 16, 2008
Just before last year’s federal election, I read Neal Blewett’s Cabinet Diaries. The book is a good read, but I was also interested in reminding myself – in the dying days of the Howard Era – what a Labor government [...]
Posted in Economics, Howardia, Markets, Poverty | Tagged ALP, economic management, economic policy, economic stimulus, financial crisis, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Neal Blewett, Paul Keating, pensioners, pensions, Rudd government, social justice, stimulus package, surplus, unemployed, welfare benefits, welfare policy |
By Kim on October 15, 2008
I have to confess at the outset that I haven’t read the report – I am really busy with work at the moment and I simply don’t have time (or energy when I do have time), but I wanted to [...]
Posted in Culture, Ethics, History, Indigenous, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged ALP, andrew bartlett, Christopher Pyne, Culture Wars, Glenn Milne, history curriculum, History wars, Indigenous policy, Jenny Macklin, kevin donnelly, Labor, Marni Cordell, national curriculum board, Noel Pearson, Northern Territory, NT intervention, NT intervention report, NT intervention review, Rudd government, stuart macintyre, Warren Mundine, welfare policy |
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