Australia - Ann Pettifor

The drama that is Sydney: architectural elegance, violence and flying marsupials

September 11, 2011 / Australia

Victoria St is now a prosperous, gentrified suburb of Sydney. But ’twas not always so. In the 1970s an enormous struggle took place to protect it from developers – one led by trade unionists in the building workers union, and that resulted in the disappearance (and alleged kidnapping and murder) of activist resident journalist Juanita

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Oz’s PM goes for broke

September 11, 2011 / Australia, Uncategorized

Stunning as Sydney Harbour may be, it was the politics that riveted my attention as I flew out of the historic, watery and lively capital of the ‘Lucky Country’. I had spent the morning before my flight indulging in a little tourism. We walked the path named after the good-hearted wife of the 1830s Governor

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Making the boom pay….radio interviews and upcoming talks

September 6, 2011 / Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Australia, Euro, Financial Crisis, Uncategorized

It has been a busy week in Australia – I will be posting in more detail very soon. But for now you can listen to an interview with me on ABC Radio National Breakfast: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2011/3310691.htm For any of you in Sydney – come along to the Catalyst event: ‘Making the boom pay… if not now,

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Australia update – Melbourne, Trade Unions, climate & sustainability

September 2, 2011 / Australia, Climate Change, Green New Deal, Uncategorized

The picture above is not of some Regency building in Brighton, England. It is in fact the oldest (or so I was told) Trades Union Hall in the world – the Melbourne Trades Hall. Sure is impressive, and with a lovely relaxed, unbureaucratic feel to it…. We were up at the crack of dawn to

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From Adelaide, Australia

August 31, 2011 / Australia, Euroland, Financial Crisis, Ireland

I am staying with my hostess in an old homestead like this one in North Adelaide…. 31st August, 2011. G’day from sunny Adelaide. I am here on a short lecture tour organised by the Search Foundation, and supported by the Don Dunstan Foundation, Catalyst , the think-tank in Sydney, as well as trades unions in Melbourne,

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