The Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2022 Armidale, NSW, 5-8 July Call for abstracts for panel on ‘Repairing Australia’s climate economy’ Organised by Sophie Webber and Gareth Bryant, the University of Sydney Australia’s carbon and climate economy is marked by both inaction and failure. On the one hand, Australia is a climate pariah, with lax…
Continue readingThis panel will address the gender implications of salary freezes, pay reductions and other cost cutting measures in public institutions. There is an emerging wave of proposals for reducing public sector wage bills in federal and state governments, as well as universities. The differential impact of such policy urgently needs to be assessed. The COVID-19…
Continue readingPaul Mason Public Talk: Can Robots Kill Capitalism? Co-presented by the Department of Political Economy, the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS), Sydney Ideas and the Greens Political Education Trust “The British miners had to be smashed so that we could have Facebook”, so states Paul Mason in his latest best-selling book PostCapitalism: A…
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