Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia

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In the mid1980s, Ray Evans and his boss at Western Mining Corporation, Hugh Morgan, became the pioneers of a new form of political activism Morgan and Evans set up four small but potent organisations, intending to transform public thinking on industrial relations, the Constitution, Indigenous affairs and climate changeTogether they had an energy that bordered on fanaticism They lobbied politicians and wrote opinion articles They were born intriguers and colourful speakers It was Bob Hawke who called them 8216 political troglodytes and economic lunatics8217 , yet in their dogged pursuit of influence these hard right conservatives had an impact on mainstream public policy that continues today Calmly, forensically and with a dry wit, Dominic Kelly shows how they did itPolitical Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics is a case study in how some very determined people can change a political culture8216 This is the story of the last great shift in Australian politics, a tal

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Do you have the courage of a Spartan? Are we all partly anarchists? What are we truly? What do we value? Are Reason and Nature entangled? Is there a hierarchy of beings above/below human beings? What do Gods have that humans don’t have? Does Nature offer us moral guidance? How do plants imitate Gods? How much does human nature vary with (say) geography, culture, language, & time? Are we more (or, less?) diverse at birth? Do you want to transcend your body? Is matter evil? Does social evolution change (the psychological) human nature? Does one need to have a theory of human nature to think about political forms? What is it to be a flourishing human? Do literature and art have the function of ‘making’ human? Do stories around the world share something? Why do classics endure? Do each one of us need to realize our human-ness? Where does this normativity come from? Does (only) force keep us together? Is the construct of human nature both useful and dangerous? Are (most) determinisms dangerous? &, will any new kind of world in the future (off a new structure) have a new kind of human nature? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using ideas from German language & literature (Dr. Milind Brahme, IIT Madras, Chennai), philosophy (Dr. Aditi Chaturvedi, Azim Premji University, Bangalore), & political studies (Prof. Chandran Kukathas, Singapore Management University (SMU), Singapore). Listen in...

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