After its embarrassing failure to win either popular or Senate crossbench support for its proposed big business tax cuts, the Coalition government has instead opted to bring forward tax cuts for small and medium businesses by five years.
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In Green Left Weekly #1172, Peter Robson launches a boots-and-all attack on bitcoin, but what is missing amid his torrent of abuse is an analysis of bitcoin and its social potential and impact.
Reconstructing Karl Polanyi: Excavation & Critique
By Gareth Dale
Pluto, 2016
246 pp., $33.88
As a well-known British socialist activist and an academic political economist, Gareth Dale is thus ideally placed to write about Karl Polanyi, writes Derek Wall.
Polanyi was a leading 20th century critic of the free market economics that crystallised into the neoliberal system that is now threatening our planet.
Film Screening: Disaster Capitalism by Antony Loewenstein & Thor Neureiter
Friday 28 February 6:30 pm (film starts at 7 pm) with dinner, Level 5, 407 Swanston Street, City, Duration 52 minutes.
Disaster Capitalism is a documentary film revealing the dark underbelly of the global aid and investment industry, offering important insights into a secret multi-billion dollar world by investigating how aid money is actually spent — or misspent.


