Australia’s own MERITOCRACY is a fable. “If they can do it you can too in the land down under” is the myth preached just as you to can win the lottery and some do while the system guarantees you won’t because it’s designed that way. Inheritance ensures an increase in generational poverty and a flow up and not the imaginary promise of a better trickle-down in the next decade or the one after for your kids kids. Remember Hawke’s promise that no child will be born in poverty well it worked for James and Lachlan
Billionaire media scions Lachlan Murdoch and James Packer have a close friendship which has endured the ups and downs of mega-deals including Australia’s ‘Super League’ war, the collapse of One.Tel, the rise of Realestate.com.au and failure of Channel Ten – some of the best and worst moments of Lachlan’s career. This edited extract from Paddy Manning’s new biography of Lachlan Murdoch sheds new light on their tumultuous business history.
Source: Billionaire babies: how James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch kept their eyes on the prize – Michael West
Oh the money! Yet it's illegal for any American to donate more than $2,600. How does that work?
Trump accused of 'brazen' campaign finance violation a day before expected 2024 launch
If our health systems are dominated by foreign investors why is Matthew Guy more than eager to throw even more money into what's currently not ours and from which others profit?
Meanwhile, Dan Andrews wants to buy back control of our electricity while Matthew Guy wants to give more money to those who are currently control and what doesn't work but are nevertheless making huge profits at our expense. Now doesn't that make sense?
Wasn't the Ventnor deal to friends similar when Guy was Planning Minister he certainly "fixed" that? His friends made a profit but not everyone else seemed to.
Foreign tax crooks nab hospitals, nursing homes, electricity – now aim to gut Origin Energy too
Marxist historians in Britain — like E. P. Thompson and Eric Hobsbawm — sparked a revolution in understanding the role of working people in making history. Their work is still fresh and vibrant today.Working people
The push to broaden history’s scope, and recover a forgotten world of working-class agency and radicalism, was matched by a desire to overcome the inadequate base-superstructure model that had defined classical Marxism. Far from being economic determinists, the British Marxist historians rejected a static, ahistorical analysis of class stratification, instead seeing “class” as a form of social relationship between human beings, developed over time, frequently contested through bitter struggle. Class was not a mere economic category, but a historical phenomenon played out in our social lives and cultural formations, in practices, rituals, ideas, and values. Through the concept of class “experience,” the British Marxist historians elucidated a way in which class struggle and exploitation shaped the social consciousness, recognizing the essential importance of the material without abandoning human agency.
Now, the chronic casualization of academic labor leaves historians so overworked and time-starved that finding the time to write or research, let alone politically organize, appears a near-impossible task. In such unpromising times, a rediscovery of the multitudes who came before and fought against exploitation and in defense of their ancient liberties could provide a far more direct source of inspiration than even the Marxist historians could have initially imagined.
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