Category: Neoliberalism

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Neoliberalism dreads an educated electorate – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Massed forces on campus at the University of Texas Austin to end protests for Gaza.

State schools and overburdened teachers here are decried as “woke” by right-wing activists, echoing their American models.

If children aren’t told that jarrah and marri forests in Western Australia are dying, mountain ash forests in Victoria are dying, snow gum forests in the high country are dying, the Great Barrier Reef is dying, maybe we can pretend there is no climate crisis underway.

Private school children, one presumes, have enough investment in the status quo to deserve such disproportionate sums.

John F Kennedy warned in 1962, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” Vested interests plan for there to be no protest at all, no matter how many lives its absence will cost.

Source: Neoliberalism dreads an educated electorate – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Choosing Justice, Peace, and Decency over Anti-Social Neoliberalism – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Choosing justice, peace, and decency over neoliberalism is essential for creating a better world. It is up to all of us to work towards a society that values the well-being of all its members, and that recognizes the interconnectedness of all life on Earth. By promoting these values, we can build a world that is just, peaceful, and sustainable for generations to come.

Source: Choosing Justice, Peace, and Decency over Anti-Social Neoliberalism – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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The Transformation of Australian Society: A Neoliberal Perspective – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Neoliberalism is a disguise for what has existed throughout the 19th Century in Australia when people living here were defined as deserving and undeserving. The deserving rich were granted Indigenous land leases the poor were allowed charity as long as they were white and Christian exceptions were even made for some Jews, Muslims, Irish and Catholics but never for blacks. It was a perspective not radically different today.

Neoliberal policies have led to a shift in the Australian welfare state policy agenda favouring the free market, small government, and reduced social expenditure. These policies have resulted in the retrenchment of the welfare state, with the introduction of forms of conditional welfare that require participants to conform to behavioural or attitudinal tests to keep eligibility for certain payments. Consequently, even individuals with a university degree now struggle to secure full-time employment.

Source: The Transformation of Australian Society: A Neoliberal Perspective – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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The PwC disaster — Neoliberalism on steroids

Australians are tired of neoliberalism. We are sick of that much talked about and ever-widening gap between the haves and have-nots.

Victoria became the most privatised of states after former Liberal Premier Jeff Kennett sold everything except the site on which the Victorian Parliament sits — though given time, this too may have been on the cards. 

Meanwhile, the mainstream media’s most hated state leader, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews, has enjoyed a 6.5 per cent increase in support since the 2022 State Election, while the Liberal Opposition is down 6.5 per cent. It is not too much of a stretch to posit that the decision by the Andrews Government to restore the State Electricity Commission in Victoria has contributed to voter trust in his Government.

Source: The PwC disaster — Neoliberalism on steroids

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The Rampage of Reckless Individualism Matches Climate Change as a Global Threat | The Smirking Chimp

Just as we needed institutional and legal checks and balances against monarchs, high time to confront the tyranny of willful individualism run amok. As Russell Kirk summarizes, “Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.” What about being a genuine democrat vs. a radical, anti-democratic individualist? Or a Constitutionalist vs. a rebellious individualist, per Jan. 6 infamy? It’s really become an either/or dilemma and nothing less than everything is at stake.

Source: The Rampage of Reckless Individualism Matches Climate Change as a Global Threat | The Smirking Chimp

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How the Myths of “Progressive Neoliberalism” Hollowed Out Australia’s Left

Neoliberalism now dominates Australia’s formerly left-wing institutions, marginalizing working-class and socialist politics. Yet the center-left “progressive neoliberal” consensus shambles on, a corpse in search of a decent grave.

Source: How the Myths of “Progressive Neoliberalism” Hollowed Out Australia’s Left

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Bank neoliberalism sets the stage for the next Trump

Now amidst a once-in-a-century pandemic, the United States has record-high stock prices while 54 million Americans are at times going hungry. Perhaps not even King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette of Revolutionary-era France could be so blind as not to see the enormous social issues the response of policymakers and central bankers are creating before our very eyes.

Bank neoliberalism sets the stage for the next Trump
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The restoration of malpractice (part 1) – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Hawke provided Australia with the opportunities of the freshly imported economic neo-liberalism: the rule of the market, privatisation, re-regulation, cutting public expenditure for social services, the elimination of the concept of public good or the sense of community, and all that to be replaced by individual responsibility. Hawke had been captured by the simplistic mantra of Ronald Reagan: “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”

‘Privatisation’ – the selling of everything which stands or moves because ‘private management is better’ came around with Paul Keating. He added trade liberalisation, corporatisation and small government.

Neo-liberalism was more subtly, albeit quietly, redirected towards a particular organisation of capitalism; despite the slogan of the small government, the basic feature of such reorganisation was the use of the government and the facilities of the state to protect capital imposing market imperatives on society and by curbing the power of organised labour.

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The budget may not be vicious, but it entrenches neoliberal inequality | John Falzon | Australia news | The Guardian

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I’ve listened hard for the sound of wealth trickling down but all I hear is the sound of the excluded still waiting

The budget may not be vicious, but it entrenches neoliberal inequality | John Falzon | Australia news | The Guardian

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Neoliberalism is alive and kicking

NEOLIBERALISM IS AN ABOMINATION of a term. For a start, there is nothing “new” or “liberal” about neoliberalism. It is a chimera or a chameleon, changing all the time, depending on the situation, morphing but not new. It is about much more than economics. It is an ideological belief system built around elitism and a perceived “natural order” of things in which the 0.1% should own everything.

Neoliberalism is alive and kicking

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Neoliberalism’s Dark Path to Fascism – Truthdig

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The Left Has Been Hijacked – » The Australian Independent Media Network

the rich get richer, the earth dies, common people bicker and argue about Patriarchy and marriage rights while everything burns around us. And all the while the press declares this as progress and trumpets changes in laws about marriage, and discriminating for women (and against men) as signs of progress. The world is being destroyed, families are being destroyed, debt is growing, congestion is growing, the environment is being destroyed, and men are being pushed out of work, becoming more and more sidelined in society. Families are falling apart and people becoming more frustrated, more angry and more violent. Yet amongst all this discord it is declared that there are signs of social progress. What a bloody mess! And who can we turn to now? The union movement has almost been crushed by neo-liberal forces, or sold out to growth, and it too has been directing resources into the new ‘left’ agenda.

via The Left Has Been Hijacked – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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The neoliberalism of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan has run its course

You can see it overseas in the electoral popularity of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn, and the anti-establishment revolts in the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump.

Source: The neoliberalism of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan has run its course

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Flogging the dead horse of neoliberalism isn’t going to improve the economy | Greg Jericho | Business | The Guardian

ACTU secretary Sally McManus was lambasted by the right for saying neoliberalism is dead, but she was just stating the obvious

Source: Flogging the dead horse of neoliberalism isn’t going to improve the economy | Greg Jericho | Business | The Guardian

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The neo-liberal execution of democracy – » The Australian Independent Media Network

By Ken Wolff In my inbox each day I get an e-mail from The Washington Post called The Daily 202. This year it has been, as is to be expected, mostly about the American Presidential primaries and forthcoming election but, in reporting Bernie Sanders’ primary win in West Virginia back on 10 May, it stated…

Source: The neo-liberal execution of democracy – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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The Death of the Nation State – » The Australian Independent Media Network

By Christian Marx Neoliberalism has seen the gradual erosion of the nation state, and in its place Transnational Corporations have infiltrated Federal governments worldwide. The beginning of this atrophy in Australia can be traced back to the Hawke/Keating governments. Hawke and then Keating implemented the Neoliberal system in Australia, via the weakening of import tariffs…

Source: The Death of the Nation State – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Neoliberalism Poisoned Climate Action And Renewables Are The Antidote – New Matilda

The dominance of ‘econobabble’ and market approaches have hurt climate action. That’s why renewable energy is vital to the future of the climate and the economy, write Dan Cass and Andrew Bray. The world seems particularly chaotic this winter. The climate news is diabolical, with fears about melting of the Arctic permafrost and the ancient ice stores of theMore

Source: Neoliberalism Poisoned Climate Action And Renewables Are The Antidote – New Matilda

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Neoliberalism and Australia’s political divide

John Passant discusses Australia’s shifting political divide in light of growing global austerity and the rise of extremism.

Source: Neoliberalism and Australia’s political divide