Living The Dream under The Accord (podcast)

June 7, 2017
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 my PhD research on the Accord, and argue how the social contract was a central plank of the implementation of neoliberalism in Australia and the method of delivering an epoch defining disorganisation of labour. We finish by discussing what insights from this period of history can help us recompose a a progressive project today.
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Listen to the podcast here: https://livingthedream.podbean.com/e/living-the-dream-under-the-accord/
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The articles from The Guardian on Australian Laborism that we discuss are:
Australian Labor led centre-left parties into neoliberalism. Can they lead it out?
Labour has a chance if it replaces Corbyn. Look at Australia in 1983
The Hawke-Keating agenda was Laborism, not neoliberalism, and is still a guiding light

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An Integral State is the online home for Elizabeth Humphrys, who is a political economist based at the University of Technology Sydney. An Integral State acknowledges the traditional owners of the land it is written in, especially the Gadigal of the Eora Nation. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.