Episodes
Saturday Apr 14, 2018
Living The Dream during Trump's Trade War
Saturday Apr 14, 2018
Saturday Apr 14, 2018
In this episode of Living The Dream Dave (@withsobersenses) tries to start an analysis of the Trump administration’s trade and tariff policy. Why has the Australian Left been so paralysed over this question? What sense can we make of it? How do we understand the policies of the state in the broader dynamics of world capitalism?
Stuff mentioned includes:
U.S. Admits That Politics Was Behind Steel Tariffs(not a Brazilian paper but a US paper reporting on US representatives talking to Brazilian business leaders)
Midnight Notes Collective – Introduction to The New Enclosures
II Rubin – A History of Economic Thought
Music by the Levon Helm Band
Sunday Apr 08, 2018
Living The Dream with the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Sunday Apr 08, 2018
Sunday Apr 08, 2018
In this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Vanamali Hermans (@VChristabel) about the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Whilst billed as ‘the most significant economic and social reform since the introduction of Medicare in the 1970s’ Vanamali shows how the NDIS often means the reduction in services for those with disabilities and bureaucratic hellishness. We discuss why this is so, the compounding issue of inequality in regional health delivery and the struggles and strategies both developing and possible. This is the first of possibly a few episodes on the NDIS.
Due to incurable idiocy Dave’s levels are still too low. (Sorry)
Articles mentioned incomed:
Vanamali Hermans
- Behind Closed Doors
- Our Healthcare System is Failing Us
- Market-Models Like the NDIS Are Failing People With Disabilities
Tim Lyons:
Precarias a la Deriva