While having a background in History, Anthony Ashbolt taught in the discipline of Politics at Macquarie University, the Australian National University and the University of New England before arriving at the University of Wollongong in 1991. For many years he has been Convenor of the Politics Program and in that capacity has overall responsibility for the undergraduate curriculum.
Articles
A Market Model of Education?, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2009)
Milton Friedman introduced the concept of vouchers in education over fifty years ago. Thankfully the...
Review - Thomas Frank, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, Illawarra Unity - Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (2009)
This analysis of American politics today is done through the lens and style of Raymond...
The American New Left and Community Unions, Illawarra Unity - Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (2009)
In the Spring and Summer, 1964, issues of the American new left journal Studies on...
Editorial 2008-9, Illawarra Unity - Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (2009)
As the financial system internationally shudders and shakes and disappears, only to reappear as something...
Rescue public schools not corporate profiteers, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2008)
Kevin Rudd's vigorous attack upon “extreme capitalism” revealed he does not understand the nature of...
Contributions to Books
Death, Decline or Atrophy? The Necessity of Politics, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
While thinking about the contemporary state of politics, it is very difficult to shake off...
The Student and New Left Movements, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
For some years now, the 1960s have been contested terrain. Many-commentators have rushed to specious...
Private Desires, Public Pleasures: Community and Identity in a Postmodern World, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2000)
As George Orwell, Herbert Marcuse and, more recently John Ralston Saul have argued, language can...