Friday, April 22, 2005
The Brisbane Institute
I have been lucky enough to hear him speak at a number of seminars and planning meetings over the last year and he was one of the key drivers behind the Queensland Government's move to draw up a Regional Plan for SEQ, currently in the process of being finalised.
The Brisbane Institute is most defintely part of teh 'critical left', ABC/Sydney Morning Herald journalist David Marr claimed was so critical to contemporary political discourse. That is 'left', not in the sense of being democratic socialist and having a view on how much regulatory impact a government should have on the economy but 'leftist' in a questioning, discursive sense - not accepting what governments and business (in particular) will tell you.
Beyond economic growth: from quantity to quality is fairly typical, but excellent peice and touches on a growing critical green view that also was made clear in the consultation responses to the draft SEQ Regional Plan: Why do we need growth?
Richard Eckersley, the author, is a fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University. I reckon that he attended a recent conference on ageing, longevity and health in Brisbane recently and has been influenced by the infamous David Suzuki who made a speach at conference and labelled current growth trends in SEQ (of around 88,000 people per year) as crazy and unsustainable.
Also influential in the 'growing' number of academics espousing stable-state ecologically based economics is Clive Hamilton, Director of another think tank The Australia Institute. He wrote an excellent (though not beyond critique, see my Life Cycle of Christmas Cracker) book, "Growth Fetish", about how we not only should adapt to zero-growth, but how this is becoming increasingly essential to our survival.
The Brisbane Institute
Posted by Living with Matilda at 11:07 PM
Brisbane Institute is Brisbane's very own think-tank. It is headed up by Professor Peter Spearitt - a caustic, yet forthright critic of development and traditional economic progress in SEQ.I have been lucky enough to hear him speak at a number of seminars and planning meetings over the last year and he was one of the key drivers behind the Queensland Government's move to draw up a Regional Plan for SEQ, currently in the process of being finalised.
The Brisbane Institute is most defintely part of teh 'critical left', ABC/Sydney Morning Herald journalist David Marr claimed was so critical to contemporary political discourse. That is 'left', not in the sense of being democratic socialist and having a view on how much regulatory impact a government should have on the economy but 'leftist' in a questioning, discursive sense - not accepting what governments and business (in particular) will tell you.
Beyond economic growth: from quantity to quality is fairly typical, but excellent peice and touches on a growing critical green view that also was made clear in the consultation responses to the draft SEQ Regional Plan: Why do we need growth?
Richard Eckersley, the author, is a fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University. I reckon that he attended a recent conference on ageing, longevity and health in Brisbane recently and has been influenced by the infamous David Suzuki who made a speach at conference and labelled current growth trends in SEQ (of around 88,000 people per year) as crazy and unsustainable.
Also influential in the 'growing' number of academics espousing stable-state ecologically based economics is Clive Hamilton, Director of another think tank The Australia Institute. He wrote an excellent (though not beyond critique, see my Life Cycle of Christmas Cracker) book, "Growth Fetish", about how we not only should adapt to zero-growth, but how this is becoming increasingly essential to our survival.
Posted by Living with Matilda at 11:07 PM
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