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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻“<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Keating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Keating</a> was still the prime minister, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Kennett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kennett</a> was premier of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Victoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Victoria</a>. The highest selling song of the year in this country was Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio. Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot Chili Peppers had been out for four years but still held sway over the entire universe. There was a band in <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Sydney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sydney</a> called Def FX who were winning awards and telling us in song titles and lyrics – with a metal/hiphop backbeat – about "ritual", "magik" and "psychoactives". This was what was in the wind. It was commercial music, the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TripleJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TripleJ</a> staple of the day, and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Cranky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cranky</a> came and went so very quickly within all of this with 2 Bugs and a song called Australia Don't Become America, otherwise known as "Straya Don Come Merica". It was influenced by the above – the sound and the fury – and in particular by Rage Against The Machine, Disposible Heroes of Hiphroprisy, Public Enemy, Pop Will Eat Itself and EMF”<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusMusic</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/HipRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HipRock</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/hip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hip</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/band" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#band</a> <<a href="https://archive.md/kOQ7X" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.md/kOQ7X</a>> / <<a href="https://smh.com.au/entertainment/music/the-crate-cranky-2-bugs-ep-1995-20150618-ghqx0p.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://smh.com.au/entertainment/music/the-crate-cranky-2-bugs-ep-1995-20150618-ghqx0p.html</a>>

Emus for EntropyWe Should Be So Lucky: Why the Australian Way Works<a href="https://insidestory.org.au/the-improvisers/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://insidestory.org.au/the-improvisers/</a>(Yet) Another analysis of why Australia has not disappeared in a froth of beer fueled cynical lazy mismanagement ... or ... ?This is an interesting , informative and *informed* "assay " of a book by expat Andrew Low. Yes, it/they does/do reference the frayed Lucky Country "meme" made prominent by that Don Horne bloke.<edited quote> ::... Australia is not compelled to follow the American lead any more than it is compelled to follow a Chinese lead. ... they are wise words. Australians may not be good long-term planners, he observes, but they are good improvisers. Being adaptable, Low thinks, is better than being visionary. Adaptable is what we need to be. </ quote> Yep :) Mostly makes good sense to this decaying lump of post sheep meat .<a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Auspol</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/LuckyCountry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LuckyCountry</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Hawke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hawke</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Keating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Keating</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Conservatism</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Society</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Economy</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Polity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Polity</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Voting</a>

Maude Nificent<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Auspol</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NeoLiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeoLiberalism</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Hawke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hawke</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Keating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Keating</a><a href="https://beige.party/@onekind" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@onekind</a> has drawn my attention to a book by Liz Humphrys — How Labour Built NeoLiberalism … not having read the book yet, did find an interview with the author in Jacobin… an interesting snippet<The other thing to remember is that prior to the Accord, the last time the ALP had been in government was under Gough Whitlam. His government found itself in the middle of an economic crisis. Since then, the Right has always accused Labor of being poor financial managers who can’t be trusted to run the country’s finances.The Hawke–Keating period, on the other hand, is held up as one of the most successful periods of economic restructuring. The ALP relies on the success of that period to argue publicly that it is fit for government. That creates a problem for trade union leaders. They don’t want to disagree with this argument publicly, even if they think the Accord was a massive setback for the labor movement. Even people who were critical of the Accord feel compelled to say nothing in public or even to defend it.><a href="https://jacobin.com/2020/10/australia-labor-party-neoliberalism-accord" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jacobin.com/2020/10/australia-labor-party-neoliberalism-accord</a>

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