Higher education is at the core of the political challenges confronting the Albanese government, principally of boosting capital accumulation whilst safeguarding aspects of social reproduction. The Albanese government has prioritised skills training and an industry policy focusing on green [...]
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Marta Russell (1951-2013), the US based writer, activist and leading critical thinker, argued that disability was not a medical condition or impairment, but a ‘socially created category derived from labor relations, a product of the exploitative economic structure of capitalist society’. [...]
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The federal government framed its sweeping changes to university funding as a reprioritisation from arts to sciences to support the “jobs of the future”. But the details tell a very different story. While the package punishes arts students, it also deprives universities of the [...]
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By Ben Spies-Butcher and Gareth Bryant
The coronavirus pandemic highlights how uncertainty and fear can quickly translate into panic and crisis in the economy. For individual businesses faced with potentially falling revenue, it appears to make good sense to be cautious and cut [...]
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