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Quarterly Essay 70: Dead Right

How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next

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Quarterly Essay 70: Dead Right

By: Richard Denniss
Narrated by: Robert Meldrum
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How did the banks run wild for so long? Why are so many aged-care residents malnourished? And how is it that arms manufacturers sponsor the Australian War Memorial?

In this passionate essay, Richard Denniss explores what neoliberalism has done to Australian society. For decades, we have been told that the private sector does everything better, that governments can’t afford to deliver the services they once could, but that security and prosperity for all are just around the corner. In fact, Australians are less equal, and more of us are economically vulnerable. But now that a royal commission has lifted the rug on the reality of corporate regulation, it seems the era of blind faith in free markets is well and truly over. So where to from here?

In Dead Right, Denniss looks at ways to renew our democracy and discusses everything from the fragmenting Coalition to an idea of the national interest that goes beyond economics.

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Half of the book talks about the Uluru statement and aboriginal affairs. Doesn't match description.

Not what I expected

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The author puts a compelling argument, critically noting we should not allow a false and inconsistently used filter for all policy proposals to dominate.

Certainly dead right

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This was painful to listen to, I think the author might have had some good points but he just used an over-abundance of "examples" to confuse the reader so I don't actually know. A argument would begin and a statement would be made the a series of examples would be presented which were vaguely relevant but there were so many the reader would forget what the argument was actually about.

There were also numerous occasions where the author contradicted themselves or it would seem they did. The whole thing was difficult to follow.

This would be perfect for a university paper for the lecturer you don't like, but as a published essay it missed the mark.

Go play Disco Elysium

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It has no idea of economics, The author lives in a ferry tale.
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