As the climate crisis deepens, fault lines between different possible political-economic pathways are widening. The current pace and breadth of decarbonisation is too slow and uneven compared to what the IPCC says is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C. In 2018, more new renewable [...]
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The shock Australian election result may have just triggered the conversation we need to have about climate change.
During the campaign, the ‘climate election’ was being framed by Labor, independents and the Greens as a referendum on whether or not Australia should take strong [...]
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Australia’s student loan scheme, originally called the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS), was introduced in 1989. This innovation, now known as the Higher Education Loan Programme (HELP) has since been exported around the world. It reflects a new way of thinking of [...]
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Call for presenters
Bringing life’s work to market: A symposium on practices and spaces of marketised social reproduction
16-17 December 2019, University of Auckland, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
Confirmed [...]
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State elections are always about spending promises, but this time not much is being said about how they will be funded.
Last minute costings on individual announcements tend to rely on the general presumption that the state economy will keep growing and somehow produce the needed [...]
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The prize committee is delighted to announce that Maria Tanyag’s article “Invisible labor, invisible bodies: how the global political economy affects reproductive freedom in the Philippines,” published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, has been voted the winner [...]
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Please join us for the keynote addresses at the Historical Materialism Sydney 2018 conference. All parts of the conference are free and open to all.
Full conference details, including venue, timetable and registration are here.
Lisa AdkinsSocial Reproduction in the Neoliberal [...]
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Alternative Futures and Regional Prospects Symposium
Working across Differences, beyond Carbon, Capital and Commodity
Date: Thursday 22nd & Friday 23rd of November 2018
Venue: UTS City Campus, Building 8 , Level 5 – Room 2 (CB08.05.002): 14-28 Ultimo Rd, Ultimo NSW [...]
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