Australia has until recently been somewhat insulated from the turbulence in the global political economy. In large measure, this can be attributed to the buoyant international demand for Australian iron ore, coal and gas, but this situation is being severely challenged. Reining in the [...]
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Call for Papers
Journal of Australian Political Economy special issue
Reversing the Resource Curse? Energy Transition and Decolonisation
Editors: Nicole Gooch, Ruchira Talukdar, James Goodman and Stuart Rosewarne
Below-ground deposits – minerals, oil and gas – [...]
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The agricultural industry throughout the world has great trouble recruiting and retaining workers drawn from the local population and has become reliant on temporary migrant workers to undertake work which is low paid and arduous. The viability of many of the industry’s branches, and [...]
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James Richard O’Connor (Apr 20, 1930 – Nov 12, 2017)
The passing of James O’Connor marks a significant moment in the history of Marxist scholarship and politics. Born in 1930 and growing up in Boston, a short stint in the merchant marine introduced him to a world beyond the oppressive [...]
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Tune in to ‘Beyond the Coal Rush’ radio series, Radio National Science Show from Saturday 27 August
Based on the results of a research project linked to the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS) at the University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) by [...]
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In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda. Evidence of global warming and accelerating greenhouse gas emissions created a new sense of urgency. In what some political science critics dubbed “the world’s first climate change election”, [...]
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