Guy Rundle
Correspondent-at-large
Guy Rundle is correspondent-at-large for Crikey. He's a former editor of Arena Magazine and contributes to a variety of publications in Australia and the United Kingdom.
The greatest challenge to Marxist thinking was from the Austrian tradition.
The world seems to be throwing him a hell of a 200th birthday celebration, but what's really behind the fervour of these think pieces?
How much did Sally Capp, current executive at the Property Council, spend on her campaign?
There needs to be, in every cause, people who fight for nothing other than that cause, and Tim Soutphommasane has been that, despite his ideological flaws.
A stealthy move by Tasmanian Liberal MP Sue Hickey to steal the Speaker's chair has seen her colleagues in the Hodgman government left with a fragile balance. But could it just be the past catching up with them?
A recent piece by Nick Cater in The Australian responds to a defence of graffiti on a Captain Cook statue in Sydney.
In the absence of hard information, ludicrous, simplistic arguments, pro- and anti-Trump, are being projected onto the event by all sides.
As the banking Royal Commission makes clear, the need for social ownership and public control of financial institutions is more important than ever. And it doesn't stop there.
"Breaking up the banks" takes us backward; it uses the powers of the state to try and create a Jurassic Park of big beasts, freezing capitalist development at a certain stage, which is taken to be the natural order.
It's dirty work, but someone's gotta do it.
