economy – Arena

Dec 2022

A strong case can be made that for half a generation Australia has been living a fantasy. Borrowing to finance nuclear submarines is only the latest example.

Reimagining Regional Relationships

Arena Quarterly no. 4

Lauren Rickards, Melinda Hinkson

Dec 2020

…wheat exists in the world not only as a plant, a seed or even a material such as flour, but as ‘futures’ and other fictions traded on the Chicago Stock Exchange…

The Toxic Business as usual Budget will be no elixer for rapid COVID-induced economic decline

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Jon Altman

8 Oct 2020

The government has baulked at a desperately needed and once-in-a-generation chance to structurally change the Australian economy to make it more sustainable, greener and fairer.

A High-Tech Pandemic?

Arena Quarterly no. 2

John Hinkson

Jul 2020

Amplified by the powers of high technologies, capitalist expansion has moved to a new level, recalibrating the borders between humans and the natural world and producing effects across species.

Economy and the Pandemic

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John Hinkson

7 Apr 2020

Economies across the globe were already in a parlous state in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis.

"As Malcolm Turnbull faces the reality of an unpredictable public and an imminent election, he…

Liberal Tax Dilemma a Sign of the Times

13 Mar 2016

As Malcolm Turnbull faces the reality of an unpredictable public and an imminent election, he is not finding life all that easy.. Being popular without actual policy had only a short term prospect, and most actual policies that are briefly floated turn out to be fraught one way or another. The most exciting of times are hardly straight-forward.

"By John Hinkson