The University of Sydney looks set to close its Department of Peace and Conflict Studies. What is the broader significance of this? Does it matter? (more…)
Frank Stilwell
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The Federal Budget: Return to Normal or Reform?
The budget delivered this week by the Federal government aims to get the economy ‘back to normal’. Is this the right goal? What if the old ‘normal’ was deeply flawed, as its political economic critics have argued?
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Josh Frydenberg is dressing up class politics as responsible economics
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says the current economic situation requires ‘supply-side’ reforms like those undertaken by the Thatcher and Reagan governments in the 1980s. The relevant lessons from those years are really rather different, as are the current needs of Australian society. (more…)
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Time for a “Green New Deal” in Australia?
Is the current political economic situation an opportunity for some progressive policies? ‘Never let a good crisis go to waste’ is a theme more familiar on the political right, but a “Green New Deal” could play well for the left – or just for common sense. (more…)
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FRANK STILWELL.- Beyond the Global Coronavirus Crisis: Austerity of Recovery?
These are hard times. The twin crisis of public health and economic downturn has no simple solution. (more…)