This is a life well travelled along the road of academia. I read some things I did not know about John. But he should include his fearless battles against privatisation. This has been the darkest joke played on democracies in my lifetime. When John began his working life, Australia had a strong and powerful public sector. Today that same public sector is ineffective and riddled with subcontractors and consultants. The great public sector activities that made Australia a great place to live and work, back before privatisation, are now gone. We are left with infrastructure joint ventures that seek profit ahead of social overhead capital formation. But many would not even know this without the work of John Quiggin. For those of us outside academia, this is his greatest contribution to the new normal we now call the Australian way of life.
This is a life well travelled along the road of academia. I read some things I did not know about John. But he should include his fearless battles against privatisation. This has been the darkest joke played on democracies in my lifetime. When John began his working life, Australia had a strong and powerful public sector. Today that same public sector is ineffective and riddled with subcontractors and consultants. The great public sector activities that made Australia a great place to live and work, back before privatisation, are now gone. We are left with infrastructure joint ventures that seek profit ahead of social overhead capital formation. But many would not even know this without the work of John Quiggin. For those of us outside academia, this is his greatest contribution to the new normal we now call the Australian way of life.
Mate you don’t need the beard ! Lol😂
A fine bio!