Political Troglodytes And Economic Lunatics

Author : Dominic Kelly
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781743820766

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Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics by Dominic Kelly Pdf

Political history at its best. This is the story of the hard right in Australia – of how Ray Evans and his boss at Western Mining Corporation, Hugh Morgan, became the pioneers of a new form of right-wing politics whose forceful reshaping of public debates transformed Australian politics. With a calm gaze, forensic detail and a dry wit, Dominic Kelly shows how they did it. Starting in the mid-1980s, Evans set up four small but potent organisations: the H.R. Nicholls Society (industrial relations), the Samuel Griffith Society (constitutional issues), the Lavoisier Group (climate change) and the Bennelong Society (Indigenous affairs). Their aim was to transform public debate on key issues. Morgan and Evans had an energy that bordered on fanaticism. They lobbied politicians and wrote op-eds. They were born intriguers and colourful rhetoricians, with a wide influence that famously included treasurer-to-be Peter Costello. It was Bob Hawke who called the H.R. Nicholls Society ‘political troglodytes and economic lunatics’; yet in their dogged pursuit of influence, the hard right made an impact. From successive backdowns on emissions targets to the rejection of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, the efforts of hard right conservatives continues to be felt today – not only on the right but across mainstream public policy. Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics is a compelling case study in how some very determined people can change a political culture.

Author : Hans A. Baer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000455977

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Climate Change and Capitalism in Australia by Hans A. Baer Pdf

Recognizing that climate politics has been an increasingly contentious and heated topic in Australia over the past two decades, this book examines Australian capitalism as a driver of climate change and the nexus between the corporations and Coalition and Australian Labor parties. As a highly developed country, Australia is punching above its weight in terms of contributing to greenhouse gas emissions despite rising temperatures, droughts, water shortages and raging bushfires, storm surges and flooding, and the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef. Drawing upon both archival and ethnographic research, Hans Baer examines Australian climate politics at the margins, namely the Greens, the labour union, the environmental NGOs, and the grass-roots climate movement. Adopting a climate justice perspective which calls for "system change, not climate change" as opposed to the conventional approach of seeking to mitigate emissions through market mechanisms and techno-fixes, particularly renewable energy sources, this book posits system-challenging transitional steps to shift Australia toward an eco-socialist vision in keeping with a burgeoning global socio-ecological revolution. Accessibly written and including an interview with renowned comedian and climate activist Rod Quantock OAM, this book is essential reading for academics, students and general readers with an interest in climate change and climate activism.

Author : Dr Darcy W.E. Allen,Dr Chris Berg ,Professor Sinclair Davidson
Publisher : American Institute for Economic Research
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781630692070

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The New Technologies of Freedom by Dr Darcy W.E. Allen,Dr Chris Berg ,Professor Sinclair Davidson Pdf

We are on the cusp of a dramatic wave of technological change - from blockchain to automated smart contracts, artificial intelligence and machine learning to advances in cryptography and digitisation, from Internet of Things to advanced communications technologies. These are the new technologies of freedom. These tools present a historical unprecedented opportunity to recapture individual freedoms in the digital age - to expand individual rights, to protect property, to defend our privacy and personal data, to exercise our freedom of speech, and to develop new voluntary communities. This book presents a call to arms. The liberty movement has spent too much time begging the state for its liberties back. We can now use new technologies to build the free institutions that are needed for human flourishing without state permission. The New Technologies of Freedom is part of a joint project between the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, an academic research centre based at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia, and the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation. Mannkal's mission is developing future free market leaders. Mannkal promotes free enterprise, limited government and individual initiative for the benefit of all Australians. The American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was founded in 1933 as the first independent voice for sound economics in the United States. Today it publishes ongoing research, hosts educational programs, publishes books, sponsors interns and scholars, and is home to the world-renowned Bastiat Society and the highly respected Sound Money Project. The American Institute for Economic Research is a 501c3 public charity.

Author : Trent Hagland
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031270444

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Think Tanks in Australia by Trent Hagland Pdf

This book provides the most comprehensive study of the Australian think-tank industry to date. Drawing on empirical evidence, it first assesses the structure of the industry, the methods think tanks use to persuade policymakers, and public perceptions of their effectiveness. The book then proceeds to examine three unique policy cases to analyse think tank influence on policymaking. It argues that whilst think tanks play important roles in Australia’s policy process, their impacts vary depending on their approach and objectives. The book also demonstrates that policymakers with contrasting ideological orientations diverge in their assessments of the utility and influence of think tanks. It will appeal to students and scholars of public policy, and practitioners in public administration and governance.

Author : Imogen Richards,Gearóid Brinn,Callum Jones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003805274

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Global Heating and the Australian Far Right by Imogen Richards,Gearóid Brinn,Callum Jones Pdf

Global Heating and the Australian Far Right examines the environmental politics of far-right actors and movements in Australia, exploring their broader political context and responses to climate change. The book traces the development of far-right pseudo-environmentalism and territorial politics, from colonial genocide and Australian nationalism to extreme-right political violence. Through a critical analysis of news and social media, it reveals how denialist and resignatory attitudes towards climate change operate alongside extreme right accelerationism, in a wider Australian political context characterised by reactionary fossil fuel politics and neoliberal New Right climate change agendas. The authors scrutinise the manipulation of environmental politics by contemporary Australian far- and extreme-right actors in cross-national online media. They also assess the political-ideological context of the contemporary far right, addressing intergovernmental approaches to security threats connected to the far right and climate change, and the emergence of radical environmentalist traditions in ‘New Catastrophism’ literature. The conclusion synthesises key insights, analysing the mainstreaming of ethnonationalist and authoritarian responses to global heating, and potential future trajectories of far-right movements exploiting the climate crisis. It also emphasises the necessity for radical political alternatives to counter the far right’s exploitation of climate change. This book will be of interest to researchers of climate change, the far right, neoliberal capitalism, extremism and Australian politics.

Author : A. James McAdams,Alejandro Castrillon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000431964

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Contemporary Far-Right Thinkers and the Future of Liberal Democracy by A. James McAdams,Alejandro Castrillon Pdf

This book is the first systematic analysis of the efforts of a broad range of contemporary far-right thinkers to popularize their critiques of liberal-democratic norms and institutions and make their ideas the subjects of sustained political and academic debate. The book focuses on outspoken thinkers in western and eastern Europe, Russia, the United States, Canada, and Australia. They include Alain de Benoist, Guillaume Faye, Götz Kubitschek, Pat Buchanan, Fróði Midjord, Jason Jorjani, contributors to the online magazine Quillette, and the elusive personality known as the Bronze Age Pervert. The book explores the diverse intellectual foundations of these thinkers’ positions, the similarities and differences in their ideas, and their prospects for influencing attitudes about democratic politics within their respective countries. It examines diverse movements and schools of thought, including the European New Right, Paleoconservatism, the Alt-right, Identitarianism, White nationalism, and antifeminism. Providing a much-needed global perspective, this book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of populism, right-wing extremism, identity politics, fascism, racism, and conservatism.

Author : Diane Stone,Andrew Denham
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0719064791

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Think Tank Traditions by Diane Stone,Andrew Denham Pdf

Think tank traditions is a follow up to the critically acclaimed monograph Think Tanks across Nations (Manchester University Press, 1998), edited by the same authors, which was widely acknowledged as a ground-breaking work in the comparative study of think tanks. The book looks at the historical role and contemporary significance of think tanks in the West, including Europe, the United States and Canada, as well as considering their activities in China, Eastern Europe and Argentina. In so doing, the book provides a broad-based and in-depth analysis of the role of think tanks in the processes of economic liberalization and democratization.

Author : Diane Stone,Andrew Denham,Mark Garnett
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Policy sciences
ISBN : 0719050545

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Think Tanks Across Nations by Diane Stone,Andrew Denham,Mark Garnett Pdf

Brings attention to the extent of think tank development in countries including Malaysia, Russia, Japan, Italy, the US, and Australia, and explores their involvement in the policy process. Each chapter begins with an empirical and historical analysis of developments in think tanks within a country to gain insight into their diverse forms and behaviors, and compares think tank activity in different countries in an attempt to understand why they have developed differently. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Laura Tingle
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781743821626

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Quarterly Essay 80 The High Road by Laura Tingle Pdf

Australia and New Zealand are often considered close cousins. But why, despite being so close, do we know so little about each other? And now, in the wake of COVID-19, is it time to change that? In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at leadership, character and two nations in transition. In the past half-century, both countries have remade themselves amid shifting economic fortunes. New Zealand has been held up as a model for everything from privatisation to the conduct of politics to the response to COVID. Tingle considers how both countries have been governed, and the different way each has dealt with its colonial legacy. What could Australia learn from New Zealand? And New Zealand from Australia? This is a perceptive, often amusing introduction to two countries alike in some ways, but quite different in others. “Jacinda Ardern is not the first reason we have had to look across the Tasman and wonder whether there is another way of doing things . . . New Zealand – perhaps the only place in the world that has suffered isolation and the tyranny of distance more than Australia – has repeatedly jumped out of its comfort zone and changed direction harder, faster and for longer than Australia has done in the past half-century.” —Laura Tingle, The High Road

Author : Bronwyn Carlson,Terri Farrelly
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031286094

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The Palgrave Handbook on Rethinking Colonial Commemorations by Bronwyn Carlson,Terri Farrelly Pdf

The Palgrave Handbook on Rethinking Colonial Commemorations explores global efforts, particularly from Indigenous and Bla(c)k communities, to dismantle colonial commemorations, monuments, and memorials. Across the world, many Indigenous and Bla(c)k communities have taken action to remove, rectify and/or re-imagine colonial commemorations. These efforts have had the support of some non-Indigenous and white community members, but very often they have faced fierce opposition. In spite of this, many have succeeded, and this work aims to acknowledge and honour these efforts. As a current and much-debated issue, this book will present fresh findings and analyses of recent and historical events, including #RhodesMustFall, Anzac Day protests, and the transferral of confederate monuments to museums. Comprising of chapters written by Indigenous, Bla(c)k and non-Indigenous authors, from a wide variety of locations, backgrounds and purposes, this topical volume is a timely and important contribution to the fields of memory studies, Indigenous Studies, and cultural heritage.

Author : Frank Bongiorno
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925203592

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The Eighties by Frank Bongiorno Pdf

Winner of the ACT Book of the Year Award Shortlisted for the Ernest Scott Prize and CHASS Australia Prize It was the era of Hawke and Keating, Kylie and INXS, the America's Cup and the Bicentenary. It was perhaps the most controversial decade in Australian history, with high-flying entrepreneurs booming and busting, torrid debates over land rights and immigration, the advent of AIDS, a harsh recession and the rise of the New Right. It was a time when Australians fought for social change - on union picket lines, at rallies for women's rights and against nuclear weapons, and as part of a new environmental movement. And then there were the events that left many scratching their heads- Joh for Canberra . . . the Australia Card . . . Cliff Young. In The Eighties, Frank Bongiorno brings all this and more to life. He sheds new light on 'both the ordinary and extraordinary things that happened to Australia and Australians during this liveliest of decades'. 'The definitive account of an inspired, infuriating decade' - George Megalogenis 'A very impressive achievement' - The Monthly 'Meaty and entertaining' - The Australian

Author : Tristan Clark
Publisher : aduki independent press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780980335125

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Stick This in Your Memory Hole by Tristan Clark Pdf

This book is brutally honest and bitingly funny discussion of politics and society in contemporary Australia. Using satire, insight and occasional foul language Clark pokes the swollen bellies of politics, economics, consumerism, media, food, oil, logging, water and transportation. This is an important work at a time when political critique has been eroded from the public discourse.

Author : Quinn Slobodian,Dieter Plehwe,Esra Elif Nartok,Aditya Balasubramanian,Tobias Rupprecht,Isabella M. Weber,Antina von Schnitzler,Jeremy Walker,Paulo Chamon,Karin Fischer,Mila Jonjic,Nenad Pantelic,Lars Mjøset,Reto Hofmann,Jimmy Casas Klausen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781942130680

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Market Civilizations by Quinn Slobodian,Dieter Plehwe,Esra Elif Nartok,Aditya Balasubramanian,Tobias Rupprecht,Isabella M. Weber,Antina von Schnitzler,Jeremy Walker,Paulo Chamon,Karin Fischer,Mila Jonjic,Nenad Pantelic,Lars Mjøset,Reto Hofmann,Jimmy Casas Klausen Pdf

A deep investigation of neoliberalism's proselytizers in Eastern Europe and the Global South Where does free market ideology come from? Recent work on the neoliberal intellectual movement around the Mont Pelerin Society has allowed for closer study of the relationship between ideas, interests, and institutions. Yet even as this literature brought neoliberalism down to earth, it tended to reproduce a European and American perspective on the world. With the notable exception of Augusto Pinochet’s Chile, long seen as a laboratory of neoliberalism, the new literature followed a story of diffusion as ideas migrated outward from the Global North. Even in the most innovative work, the cast of characters remains surprisingly limited, clustering around famous intellectuals like Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek. Market Civilizations redresses this absence by introducing a range of characters and voices active in the transnational neoliberal movement from the Global South and Eastern Europe. This includes B. R. Shenoy, an early member of the Mont Pelerin Society from India, who has been canonized in some circles since the Singh reforms; Manuel Ayau, another MPS president and founder of the Marroquín University, an underappreciated Latin American node in the neoliberal network; Chinese intellectuals who read Hayek and Mises through local circumstances; and many others. Seeing neoliberalism from beyond the industrial core helps us understand what made radical capitalism attractive to diverse populations and how often disruptive policy ideas “went local.”

Author : Dolores E. Janiewski,Paul M. Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114544468

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New Rights New Zealand by Dolores E. Janiewski,Paul M. Morris Pdf

"[An] account of the growth of the New Right in New Zealand in the years 1984 to1999 ... Focuses on the global context of the economic programmes for change in the 1980s and 1990s, showing parallel initiatives in other countries and stressing the international networks which carried the New Right message" - Back cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Australia
ISBN : UCSD:31822008380784

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Business Bulletin by Anonim Pdf