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Tag Archives: Maggie Thatcher
John Menadue. Health Workforce Reform.
Conservative commentators and the Business Council of Australia speak endlessly about the need for industrial and workforce reform particularly in the blue-collar area where there has already been very substantial reform and improvement. Changes in the Australian workforce have helped … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Health
Tagged health workforce, Kerry Goulston, Maggie Thatcher, Peter Brooks, restrictive practices
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Ian McAuley. Is capitalism redeemable? Part 1: From markets to market societies
Republican victories in the US midterm elections have given conservatives a psychological boost, just days before the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. (For the record, the 1989 collapse of European communism was a victory for those … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged Eric Hobsbawm, Ian McAuley, Maggie Thatcher, Mark Carney, market society, Polany, Ronald Reagan
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Doctors scared Maggie Thatcher. John Menadue
Excuse me for dropping names but at a round table discussion with Maggie Thatcher in the late 1980s that I attended in Sydney she was asked “Now that you have fixed the work practices of the miners and the printers … Continue reading