by Elizabeth Humphrys | Mar 6, 2021 | Australian Economy, Australian History
My research collaborator Sarah Gregson and I recently published an article about the impact of the collapse of the West Gate Bridge on the families of those killed, focussing on how the main social welfare agency dealt with the widows. From our West Gate Project...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Jan 11, 2021 | Anti-politics, Australian Economy
In the Summer 2020/2021 issue of the Journal of Australian Political Economy, I published an article on anti-politics with Simon Copland and Luke Mansillo. We examine potential evidence for anti-politics in electoral fragmentation in Australia. We use the approach...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Aug 11, 2020 | Accord, Australian Economy, unions
The May issue of the journal Labour History carried a roundtable discussion of my book How Labour Built Neoliberalism. The special section ‘Assessing the Accord and Labour’s Role in Neoliberalism’ (paywalled) features contributions from Frank Bongiorno...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | May 27, 2020 | Australian Economy
This article was originally written for the members of the NSW Nurses & Midwives Association, and published in The Lamp on May 25, 2020. Not only is it pretty nasty to suggest a freeze to the wages of nurses, midwives and other healthcare workers while they are on...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | May 20, 2020 | Accord, Australian Economy, Neoliberalism, unions
By Elizabeth Humphrys and Amy Thomas Union members in the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) are in the midst of a turbulent debate over a proposed national Jobs Protection Framework (JPF). Universities have been excluded from the JobKeeper scheme just as...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Jun 12, 2019 | Anti-politics, Australian Economy
I participated in a really enjoyable interview with Teishan Ahearne for Earth Matters (3CR and syndicated nationally on community radio) on the recent Australian election. We talked anti-politics, climate action, Adani and Western Sydney. We asked what way forward in...
