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Emus for Entropy

We Should Be So Lucky: Why the Australian Way Works

insidestory.org.au/the-improvi

(Yet) Another analysis of why Australia has not disappeared in a froth of beer fueled cynical lazy mismanagement ... or ... ?

This is an interesting , informative and *informed* "assay " of a book by expat Andrew Low.

Yes, it/they does/do reference the frayed Lucky Country "meme" made prominent by that Don Horne bloke.

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... Australia is not compelled to follow the American lead any more than it is compelled to follow a Chinese lead. ... they are wise words.

Australians may not be good long-term planners, he observes, but they are good improvisers. Being adaptable, Low thinks, is better than being visionary.

Adaptable is what we need to be.
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Yep :)

Mostly makes good sense to this decaying lump of post sheep meat .

#Auspol #Australia #LuckyCountry
#Hawke #Keating #Conservatism
#Society #Economy #Polity #Voting

Inside Story · The improvisers • John EdwardsAs Australia faces a crisis of orientation, an expatriate argues that being adaptable is better than being visionary
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Maude Nificent

#Auspol #NeoLiberalism #Hawke #Keating

@onekind has drawn my attention to a book by Liz Humphrys — How Labour Built NeoLiberalism … not having read the book yet, did find an interview with the author in Jacobin… an interesting snippet

<The other thing to remember is that prior to the Accord, the last time the ALP had been in government was under Gough Whitlam. His government found itself in the middle of an economic crisis. Since then, the Right has always accused Labor of being poor financial managers who can’t be trusted to run the country’s finances.

The Hawke–Keating period, on the other hand, is held up as one of the most successful periods of economic restructuring. The ALP relies on the success of that period to argue publicly that it is fit for government. That creates a problem for trade union leaders. They don’t want to disagree with this argument publicly, even if they think the Accord was a massive setback for the labor movement. Even people who were critical of the Accord feel compelled to say nothing in public or even to defend it.>

jacobin.com/2020/10/australia-

jacobin.comHow Australia’s Labor Movement Helped Build NeoliberalismIn the US and UK, conservative politicians like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher kick-started neoliberalism. In Australia, however, it began in the 1980s with a fateful Accord introduced by Labor prime minister Bob Hawke and supported by Australia’s trade union leadership.
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In #Hawke’s lifetime, behaving like a sexual predator was part of the script for performing ‘alpha male’. For many men it still is. No wonder so many women who, like me, grew up with this normalisation of #misogyny feel alienated, insulted & bored by the continued adulation of men (soooooo many men) who made accepting the norms of this enabling culture part of the identities they constructed as their ‘brand’. #AusPol #history #politics

Young Hawke by David Day review – a gritty, disturbing addition to former prime minister’s story theguardian.com/books/article/

The Guardian · Young Hawke by David Day review – a gritty, disturbing addition to former prime minister’s storyBy Paul Daley
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