Category: Bob Hawke

07 Jun

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Living the Dream Under the Accord (podcast)

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Last week I was interviewed on the wonderful ‘Living the Dream’ podcast. We discussed the Accord, neoliberalism and the ALP Hawke-Keating government. Our focus was on recent articles by Van Badham and Wayne Swan in The Guardian, and how the ALP and unions are attempting to understand and frame the experience of the Hawke-Keating government today. I discuss […]

Filed under: ALP, Bob Hawke, economics, Featured, Left strategy, neoliberalism, social democracy, trade unions

01 Nov

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Naomi Klein, the ‘shock doctrine’ & Whitlam’s dismissal

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In the latest post at her personal blog, An Integral State, Left Flank’s ELIZABETH HUMPHRYS challenges Naomi Klein’s celebrated “shock doctrine” thesis of neoliberal transformation by looking at the Whitlam dismissal and the Fraser government’s failure to drive through neoliberal reform. But despite these concurrent ‘shocks’ — the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression […]

Filed under: ALP, Bob Hawke, democracy, Featured, Gough Whitlam, Liberal Party, Malcolm Fraser, Margaret Thatcher, neoliberalism, state, the Right, trade unions