By All Against All
The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.
Ben, Don and special guest Dave examine the media's extremely normal, rational and non-psychotic response to the coronavirus pandemic. After we go through the 'serious' responses in the Australian, the AFR and the SMH, we go to 'libertarian' YouTuber The Market Sniper and his very interesting view on WORLD BOLSHIVISM. You can find the video we're talking about here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4_f2sWjW8E&t=1s
Ben and Don are joined by listener Isaac Cavanagh, we discuss how the crisis is affecting the aged care and early childhood learning sectors of the Australian economy, as well as what a socialist response to the crisis should look like. The crisis is demonstrating how we are essentially just transferring money to a small group of business owners who pay some of our most important workers as little as possible to look after some of the most vulnerable members of the community. It definitely doesn't need to be this way.
Ben and Don discuss the impact the Coronavirus has had, and is likely to have on the Australian, US and world economy. Spoiler alert, it's not likely to be good. We also discuss the economic response of the Morrison Government, which is essentially a giant 'even more of the same!' The Trump Administration is looking a similar measures but has still managed to outflank the Democratic leadership... from the left?!
We go through the byzantine, convoluted and downright weird process by which the Democratic Party uses to pick a nominee, what this means for Australia and particularly the Australian left. We then game out a couple of different possibilities on what could happen at the Convention later this year and what the Democratic Party could do to our beloved boy Bernard. Hopefully by the end, you'll have a decent understand of how this ridiculous process works!
We delve into the world of management consulting, its history, its place in Australia and its place in the modern capitalism. In just about every crime scene of global capitalism since 1950, you are very likely to find the finger prints of at least one of the giant management consulting firms.
In Australia, they are now deeply integrated into the functioning of government – taking on roles that we generally think of as 'core' functions of Government. They have massively increased their profits in Australia, almost entire from public sector work, while at the same time massively increasing their donations to political parties.
Article on the history of management consulting: https://marielauredjelic.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/cha4lastb.pdf
The movement of management consulting into the public sector: http://repository.essex.ac.uk/8114/1/WP_2011-11%20Uddin.pdf
Sydney Morning Herald report on management consulting donations (including graphs): https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/govt-nearly-triples-spend-on-big-four-consultancies-as-donations-rise-20190220-p50z22.html
ANAO Report on use of management consultants: https://www.anao.gov.au/work/information/australian-government-procurement-contract-reporting
AFR report on the shutdown of the parliamentary inquiry into management consulting: https://www.afr.com/companies/professional-services/government-shuts-down-consulting-inquiry-without-a-report-20190414-p51e1w
We discuss:
Australia is significantly more aflame than usual. Our politics is B R O K E – but don't worry, the media have some reheated takes from 2010 they can serve you up about the need to bring the country together.
Josh Frydenberg delivered a major speech on the 'productivity crisis', the 3243rd such speech given by Australian Treasurers since Paul Keating introduced us to the concept sometime in the 80's. Ben does a deep dive on the history of the 'productivity crisis' that seems to have no beginning and no end.
We also went through the ALP Campaign Review so you don't have to. In short, it's a thinly sourced pile of garbage that seems to only serve the purpose of giving the ALP an excuse to pivot to the centre (read: right).
We end with an amazing story from one of our listeners that honestly could not be more more All Against All. It combines all of our favourite Australian political themes.
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David Crowe SMH Op-ed: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/as-australia-faces-more-extreme-weather-the-nation-s-politics-continue-to-fail-20191115-p53avc.html
Peter Hartcher SMH Op-ed: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/our-leaders-fiddle-while-the-country-burns-20191115-p53b3q.html
OECD productivity analysis: https://www.oecd.org/economy/outlook/Decoupling-of-wages-from-productivity-november-2018-OECD-economic-outlook-chapter.pdf
Jim Stanford on the declining labour share of GDP: https://www.tai.org.au/sites/default/files/Labour_Share_Symposium_Stanford.pdf
Institute of public accountants on off-market buybacks: https://www.publicaccountants.org.au/news-advocacy/media-releases/off-market-buy-backs%E2%80%99-hidden-cost
RBA on declining corporate investment: https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2019/jun/can-structural-change-account-for-the-low-level-of-non-mining-investment.html
SEC on buybacks: https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/speech-jackson-061118
ALP Campaign Review: https://alp.org.au/media/2043/alp-campaign-review-2019.pdf
The perfect All Against All story: https://twitter.com/9NewsAUS/status/1195240972541550592?s=09
Don interviews Sofía Rivera from Santiago, Chile. She is a political scientist who has been part of the mass protests against austerity and the last thirty years of neoliberalism. The protests haven't been covered well in Australia or the US, so Sofía explains the whole situation, and the historical context dating back the the coup in 1973 and the Pinochet dictatorship.
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In which we debunk the idea that the liberal party has any underlying ideology or that conservatism is a coherent body of thought, and discuss the global state of 'family offices'.
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We discuss the fashionable tendency among leftists looking for dinner party validation to talk about the 'professional managerial class', but what do they mean? Do they know? Do they care? We break down how it can be that podcasters, post-colonial studies Phd candidates and advocacy directors at NGOs are apparently the only people who work on computers that get to do socialism.
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The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.