Unravelling: understanding the system we’re in
Much and all as we’d like a blank canvas to invent a new social system that effectively manages climate change and inequality, the reality is that we’re going to have to rebuild from where we are. Learn about what got us here and what is holding us in place.
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Beginning to unravel
unravelling + reMAKING — Start here to learn why we think unravelling and reMAKING are both important.
The Powell Memo – a little-known story in the neoliberal rise to power and influence — There never really was anything inevitable about how neoliberal ideas rose to power. It was the result of deliberate, long-term, coordinated planning, strategy and funding. One little-known example, the Powell Memo, illustrates this perfectly.
Unravelling and reMAKING the public good.
Part 1: Introducing the public good — We think Australia is ready for a conversation about the public good. Learn what it means, the history of the public good in Australia, and how we might begin to think about it in new ways.
Part 2: Unravelling privatisation — Unravelling the privatisation and marketisation of the public good: where it happens and how it happens — in ways both well-known and hidden.