Nathan Hollier
Nathan Hollier is Chair of the Board of the Small Press Network, a representative body for small and independent publishers in Australia, and a former member of the Australian federal governments Book Industry Collaborative Council and head of Monash, Melbourne and the Australian National University presses. These are his personal views.
Recent articles by Nathan Hollier
21 February 2025
Tariff politics, then and now
As Australia faces the threat of significant US tariffs on its aluminium and steel, it is worth remembering that 50 years ago our nation faced a choice between aligning itself with either a group of other nations, mostly from the Third World, that produced bauxite and wanted to set a price for this prime ore of aluminium, or with the US and the International Monetary Fund, then as now controlled by the US, which wanted bauxite prices to be determined on an open global market.
3 February 2025
Australia’s cultural independence sacrificed on the altar of deregulation
What does the acquisition of iconic Melbourne independent Text Publishing by US-based multinational Penguin Random House tell us about the health or otherwise of the Australian book publishing industry?
23 November 2024
Gross inequality and economic injustice: How did it come to this?
“Remoteness between ownership and operation … is an evil in the relations between men, likely or certain in the long run to set up strains and enmities which will bring to nought the financial calculation.” - John Maynard Keynes
18 October 2024
Monetary policy: The Australian Government must stop acting in the interests of US shareholders
Since the dawn of neoliberal policy time, at the start of the 1980s, the idea that the population must suffer short-term pain for the sake of longer-term gain has been frequently stated by government and senior public servants.