HeyJaredRob Powell
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A universal public housing system for a divided Australia (opens the original)
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A universal public housing system could turn redistribution from an abstract promise into visible security while rebuilding the common institutions a plural democracy needs, writes Rob Powell. IN MY PREVIOUS two articles, I took a pessimistic view of a couple of deep and systemic political problems that obscure the real sources of the economic insecurity faced by working-class people. In ‘The monoculture myth at the heart of Hansonism’, I argued that economic insecurity can be redirected towards
Why inequality survives democratic politics (opens the original)
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Australians demanding radical political change may defend the economic arrangements causing their insecurity and reject the redistribution needed to build universal public services, writes Rob Powell. THERE ARE SEVERAL political realities on which many Australians might agree. Politics is failing many people, the economy is leaving too many behind, and housing has become so expensive that younger Australians feel excluded from the security and wealth it delivered to earlier generations. The Nati
The monoculture myth at the heart of Hansonism (opens the original)
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Australia has never been a monoculture, and importing American-style grievance politics only distracts from the real challenges facing ordinary Australians, writes Rob Powell. THE YEAR WAS 1995, and a little-known Melbourne funk band called Cranky released ‘Australia Don’t Become America’, which soon hit the airwaves on Triple J. In doing so, they forced us to confront a broader question: what is Australian culture? They answered that Australian culture begins with the denial of Indigenous cultu
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