Tag Archives: Free market

Labor wants to pay childcare wages itself. A perfect storm makes it not such a bad idea

Posted on May 11, 2019 by

This article was first published in The Conversation. Warwick Smith, University of Melbourne This article is part of an election series on wages, industrial relations, Labor and the union movement ahead of the 2019 federal election. You can read other … Continue reading →

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Op-ed in The Australian that attacks my guardian article is incoherent

Posted on February 4, 2015 by

The below op-ed was published in last week’s Australian. It is critical of my piece in The Guardian the week before. I contemplated publishing a reply but after reading the piece properly there’s actually very little substance to reply to. … Continue reading →

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Free market economics and fake moon landings

Posted on April 15, 2013 by

Yet another paper has emerged showing a strong correlation between belief in free market ideology and climate change denial (1). The article, NASA faked the moon landing—therefore, climate science is a hoax finds a very strong negative relationship between degree … Continue reading →

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