Clive Hamilton’s Quarterly Essay, “What’s Left? The Death of Social Democracy” provides a searing critique of the ALP, and of the politics of “aspiration” and endless economic expansion that have come to dominate the political field of thought and governance.Hamilton argues forcefully that the “model of deprivation” which fuelled social democratic thought for much of [...]

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