Articles

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The Corporate Assault on Democracy, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2008)
Throughout the 20th Century business associations and coalitions coordinated mass propaganda campaigns that combined sophisticated...
 

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The Role of “Economic Education” in Achieving Capitalist Hegemony, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
Free enterprise has become the prevailing idea of our times, an idea without serious rival...
 

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The Right Way to Go? Earth Sanctuaries and Market-based Conservation (with J. Sydee), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
Australia's Earth Sanctuaries Limited (ESL) is an internationally acclaimed organisation that uses private property as...
 

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Role of the precautionary principle in water recycling (with A. I. Schäfer), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
In an engineering context the precautionary principle is often perceived as an excuse to do...
 

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Regulating the power shift: the state, capital and electricity privatisation in Australia (with D. Cahill), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
This article examines the process of electricity privatisation in Australia in order to identify the...
 

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Neo-liberal think tanks and neo-liberal restructuring: Learning the lessons from Project Victoria and the privatisation of Victoria's electricity industry (with D. Cahill), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
In 1990, neo-liberal think tanks the Institute of Public Affairs and the Tasman Institute collaborated...
 

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Environmentalists Help Manage Corporate Reputation: Changing Perceptions not Behaviour, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2002)
Environmentalists have traditionally drawn attention to environmental problems by highlighting corporate misdeeds and thereby damaged...
 

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Ecofeminism and Globalism: A Critical Appraisal (with J. Sydee), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2001)
Ecofeminism offers a useful yet limited framework through which to critique globalisation. Ecofeminism claims that...
 

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Neoliberal Think Tanks and Free Market Environmentalism, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2001)
[Extract] The root of the environmental problem, however, is the priority given to economic considerations...
 

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Pharmaceutical Industry Agenda Setting in Mental Health Policies (with R. Gosden), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2001)
The development of political agenda-setting through the use of sophisticated public relations techniques is threatening...
 

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Selling the Work Ethic, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2001)
[Extract] In modern industrial societies work and production have become ends in themselves. Employment has...
 

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The Promotion of a Secular Work Ethic, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2001)
[Extract] The compulsion to work has clearly become pathological in modern industrial societies. Millions of...
 

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Trading the Earth: The politics behind tradeable pollution rights, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2001)
[Extract] Tradeable pollution rights and emissions trading are being increasingly used as an environmental policy...
 

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Costing the Earth: Equity, Sustainable Development and Environmental Economics, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2000)
The ethical principle of equity, particularly intergenerational equity, is central to the concept of sustainable...
 

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Beyond technicalities: Expanding engineering thinking, Faculty of Arts - Papers (1999)
Engineering appears to be at a turning point. It is evolving from an occupation that...
 

Books

This Little Kiddy Went to Market: The Corporate Capture of Childhood (2009)

This Little Kiddy Went to Market investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children...

 
Environmental Principles and Policies (2006)

Environmental Principles and Policies examines six key environmental and social principles that have been incorporated...

 
Free Market Missionaries: The Corporate Manipulation of Community Values (2006)

Throughout the 20th Century business associations and coalitions coordinated mass propaganda campaigns that combined public...

 
Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda (2006)
For the last forty years transnational corporations have been mobilizing behind the scenes to ensure...
 
Power Play: The Fight for Control of the World's Electricity (2003)

Power Play argues persuasively that the track record of electricity privatisation and deregulation around the...

 
Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism (2002)

Global Spin reveals the sophisticated techniques being used around the world by powerful conservative forces...

 
Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR (2000)

At the onset of the twenty first century work and production have become ends in...

 

Contributions to Books

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The Changing Face of Conservation: Commodification, Privatisation and the Free Market, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
Environmentalists in the late 1960s and 1970s argued that the exponential growth of populations and...
 

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Electricity: The global impact of power reforms, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
Dozens of governments have embarked on the pathway to electricity deregulation and privatisation since the...
 

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Power Play: The Japanese Situation, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
The Japanese electricity industry is currently being gradually deregulated in the hopes that high electricity...
 

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Corporate propaganda and global capitalism - Selling free enterprise?, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
This chapter examines the way in which capitalism has been underpinned by a self-conscious propaganda...
 

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Digging Your Own Grave, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
[Extract] The work ethic is one of the most neglected problems in society today, and...
 

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Drug companies and Schizophrenia: Unbridled Capitalism meets Madness (with L. R. Mosher and R. Gosden), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2004)
While the major thrust of this volume is an examination of the psychosocial origins and...
 

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Moulding and Manipulating the News, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2004)
The media are accused of bias by people from both ends of the political spectrum,...
 

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Pig Pharma: Psychiatric Agenda Setting by Drug Companies (with R. Gosden and L. R. Mosher), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2003)
The development of political agenda-setting through the use of sophisticated public relations techniques is threatening...
 

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bp: Beyond Petroleum?, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2002)
[Extract] In 2000 the transnational oil giant BP Amoco rebranded itself as "bp: beyond petroleum."...
 

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Global Spin, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2001)
This chapter examines the way that corporations have used their financial resources and power to...
 

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The Role of Technology in Sustainable Development, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2000)
 

Other

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Treated Timber, Toxic Time-bomb: The Need for a Precautionary Approach to the Use of Copper Chrome Arsenate (CCA) as a Timber Preservative (with N. Lansbury), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)

Timber preserved with Copper Chrome Arsenate (CCA) is ubiquitous in Australia. Wood, such as radiata...