To contemplate class in Australia is to be confronted immediately by paradox. Australia has over the past forty years become much more unequal, and yet those institutions formed to contest class inequality – the trade unions and the Labor Party – have become weaker and less militant. The labour movement has largely avoided a language of class as divisive and old-fashioned, and yet right-wing p ... (read more)
Sean Scalmer
Sean Scalmer is a Professor at the University of Melbourne, in the field of Australian History and Historical and Philosophical Studies. His published works include On the Stump (2017), Gandhi in the West (2011), The Little History of Australian Unionism (2006), and Dissent Events (2002).
Writings on globalisation have so far been of three principal types. First came the fables of discovery: bold, confident and romantic. Next came the stories of resistance: variously decrying the consequences of the new order, or denying that there was anything particularly novel about this globalisation malarkey. More recently, however, we have entered the age of elaboration. These fresher writing ... (read more)