Graeme Turner
@GraemeTurn2947
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Queensland. Author of The Shrinking Nation: How we got here and what to do about it.... and many more.
Brisbane
Joined February 2024
Is this the #mostdisappointinggovernment ever? Doing nothing, not much, or just not enough. New post from https://t.co/Gav2CdS58i
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Doing nothing, not much, or just not enough If you follow the shifts in the consensus of opinion within the political commentariat, you may have noticed that a new narrative is developing around the...
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My latest rant on #thestateoftheuniversity is on https://t.co/Gav2CdS58i -- 'The traditional university is on its deathbed. Should we care?'.
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There can’t have been many worse times for taking on the task of defending the public value of universities. The steady drip of bad news stories has been endless. Just over this last month or so we...
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On neoliberalism as zombie economics, and that federal budget. https://t.co/OHTSAKu0Bg
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It is telling that complexity scientist, Peter Turchin, has to go back to the deep socio-political divisions of the nineteenth century to come up with a phrase for our times. ‘Popular immiseration’...
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There are some things in the #ShrinkingNation that are not shrinking. The number of people who say they will vote for #Dutton and the #Coalition. How has that happened? https://t.co/h7FMPiNJ48
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Dutton's rise demonstrates the power of aggression in today's politics
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Reducing the indexation on ##HECS/HELP loans is only fiddling at the margins. For #humanities students paying over $16k per year it matters little. The neglected issue is the #JobReady Graduates scheme -- tragic case of bad politics driving bad policy
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Dutton Rising. The power of constant attack https://t.co/h7FMPiNJ48 No-one expected this a year ago, but he's brought the Coalition back into contention. This is an attempt to understand how.
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Dutton's rise demonstrates the power of aggression in today's politics
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If #HECS was a commercial scheme, the way it works would be subject to legal challenge. It’s indexation should be scrapped.
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Not waiting for #Albo. Brisbane’s #Greenslide suggests ALP voters may be moving on. See new post on https://t.co/Gav2CdS58i
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In the weekend’s council elections in Brisbane, the vote in my electoral ward was split almost equally between the LNP and the Greens. As counting continues, both parties are polling around 40% each,...
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The Accord has landed and now everyone agrees: our university system is broken
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The Final Report from the Accord review of Australia’s universities has landed, with 47 recommendations emerging from its damning assessment of the dysfunctional condition of our ‘unified national...
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