A brand new issue of the Journal of Australian Political Economy focuses on the political economic fallout from the Coronavirus crisis. It contains 26 articles, written by Australian and international authors, each showing how political economic analysis can deepen our understanding of what [...]
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This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition [1983] (The University of North Carolina Press, 2000).
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Rio Tinto has been in the news again for its egregious disregard for Aboriginal heritage and sites of cultural significance. Rio Tinto’s long list of alleged human rights violations had another addition with the blasting of Juukan Gorge in Western Australia (WA). The blasts were a part [...]
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Feminist theories of ”the international’ have often had an awkward relationship with feminist political and social theory. While historically under pressure to temper the language of feminism and to alter feminist methodologies to fit within the discipline of International [...]
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Run the Jewels dropped a video for their new single “Ooh La La” on April 27th, 2020, and in the days since I’ve watched and rewatched the video more than 16 times, not counting several stretches of listening to the single on repeat. It would be lying to say it hasn’t driven me to [...]
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The most optimistic assessment by the Reserve Bank is that it will take a “few years” to reverse “much” (i.e. not all) of the increase in unemployment from the Covid-19 lockdown. The wages vs jobs trade-off debate is back with a vengeance.
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Following the 2007/08 financial crisis the creation of a less unequal and fairer world appeared to be a major prospect. As is by now all too familiar, after the financial crisis, instead of becoming more progressive, societies turned out to be more unequal, with inequalities and asset-based [...]
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In the early 1970s Jack Mundey led a union of builders labourers that took strike action and imposed bans on developments that were then worth around $5 billion. At the time, Jack and his union, the Builders Labourers Federation, were intensely vilified. Death threats were common. The BLF [...]
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