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Queerstories: 6 July 2018
On Friday 6 July I'll be speaking at Sydney's Queerstories. A keen audience member, I'll be performing this time around and telling a short story. Maeve Marsden, the host and producer, describes the event like this: It involves 'reflections on lives well lived and...
25th anniversary of Michael Pusey’s Economic Rationalism in Canberra
2016 marked the 25th anniversary of Michael Pusey’s seminal text of economic sociology, Economic Rationalism in Canberra. As a detailed analysis of top bureaucrats in Canberra who had adopted free market ideas and the transformation of public policymaking, Pusey’s...
Work: Past and Present
Work: Past and Present is a monthly seminar investigating Australian and international labour history through the contemporary moment. It is a new series organised by myself, Sarah Gregson (University of New South Wales) and Frances Flanagan (United Voice/University...
Work History and the Collapse of the West Gate Bridge
This week my colleague Sarah Gregson (UNSW) and I are on the GLAMcity podcast talking about the history of work, labour under the Accord, and the memorialisation of those killed in the West Gate Bridge collapse & the Titanic disaster. You can listen to the...
Playdough Capitalism
Lessons in radical economic pedagogy. This post was first posted on the Progress in Political Economy blog, and the UTS Learning futures blog. *** When he visited Sydney a few years ago I met Bill Carroll, Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria in...
Take a walk around your neighbourhood
Lessons in radical economic pedagogy. This post was co-authored by Keith Heggart and myself, and posted on the UTS Learning and Teaching blog and the Progress in Political Economy blog. Take a walk In the first chapter of Economics for Everyone, Jim Stanford argues...
Living The Dream under The Accord (podcast)
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...
Wen you laugh togetha
By Elizabeth Humphrys and Jackie Lynch. This article first appeared on Overland Journal. The AFLW (Women’s Australian Football League) has happened and we couldn’t be happier about it, even if that happiness is often expressed in joyous weeping. There’s something...