Alison Pennington is a Senior Economist at The Australia Institute's Centre for Future Work. She has a Masters of Political Economy from the University of Sydney and she rules.
After a week of changes to the JobKeeper and JobSeeker payments, the government's "mini-budget" announcement, a torrent of shitty "deficit politics" and some ominous talk about industrial relations reform, Alison talks to me about the state of play for Australian workers right now. We discuss the possibilities of reimagining the entire welfare system in this country right now, why debt doesn't matter, why working from home might really suck for workers' rights and what the future of the trade union movement might look like.
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The Australia Institute's Centre for Future Work
ARTICLE: Woolworths to cut 1,350 jobs and admits it owes at least $90m more to underpaid workers
ARTICLE: Jobless opt for dole as business struggle to find workers despite unemployment surge ($)
Cause of the Week: Living Incomes For Everyone Australia (LIFE) (facebook.com/LifeAustralia, on YouTube)
Dave Donovan is the founder and editor of Independent Australia, a progressive journal focussed on Australian federal politics, democracy and economics.
In a time of a declining media industry slashing jobs left right and centre, I think supporting independent Australian media is vital, and I for one find it refreshing to read explicitly progressive takes on the news in IA. Here Dave talks about his background in the Republican movement, just how much neoliberalism has reshaped Australia over the past 40 years, class confusion, the overwhelming conservatism of Australian media and the attacks on the ABC.
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ARTICLE: Poll finds 62% believe our head of state should be an Aussie
ARTICLE: What is really wrong with the country: 10 years of Quiet Australians by Dave Donovan
ARTICLE: Fox News banned in Canada? by Snopes
ARTICLE: The palace letters: read the full documents from the National Archive here
Cause of the Week: The Federal ICAC Now Party (federalicacnow.org)
CW: This conversation involves discussion of sexual assault
This is the second part of my conversation with human rights lawyer and self-described "social justice witch" Sunili Govinnage.
Here we continue our conversation on what cancel culture is and what it isn't, privilege, oppression, intersectionality and class; topics that have certainly SPICED UP over the past week.
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Sunili’s writing at The Guardian
Ezra Klein's podcast with sujatha baliga on restorative justice
Exiting the Vampire Castle by Mark Fisher
Chapo Trap House's latest (patreon) ep on "cancel culture" with Matt Taibi is worth a listen
The Harper's Letter, On Justice and Open Debate
ARTICLE: Arguing over the arts is sort of the point by Sami Shah
ARTICLE: Overdosing on Symbolism by Ben Burgis
ARTICLE: Beshear promises health insurance for all Black Kentuckians
Cause of the Week: NATSIL's Stop Black Deaths In Custody GoFundMe Campaign
Sunili Govinnage is an Australian human rights lawyer and self-described "social justice witch" who has recently come to some realisations about themselves and their politics.
In the first part of this frank conversation we discuss her "decolonising journey", her focus on dismantling the "colonialist-capitalist-heteropatriarchy", anti-racism and cancel culture. We identify areas that we agree on and some points where we have different perspectives - differences that will be further fleshed out in part two.
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Sunili's writing at The Guardian
ARTICLE: Western Australia's King Leopold Ranges renamed Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges
My episode with Dr. Chelsea Bond
Cause of the Week: Stop Black Deaths In Custody GoFundMe Campaign