REVOLUTIONARY CONSERVATISM.
Our conversation with Melinda Cooper @melindacooper.bsky.social, professor in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University is now available in podcast on your favourite platforms.

Epstein Family Values Melinda Cooper and Quinn Slobodian discuss the depredations of Jeffrey Epstein, America's billionaire patriarchs, and the far right

Join Equator next week for an online conversation between Quinn Slobodian and Melinda Cooper about her essay on the Epstein Files and the psychology of billionaire patriarchs. Free — 7pm Thursday night Eastern Time / 11am Friday morning Canberra Time: www.eventbrite.com/e/epstein-fa...

& friend of Rosa, Liz Humphrys says: "Essential reading for scholars, activists and the outraged, and for those who want to think more deeply about the chasm between legal notions of right and wrong and whose interests they serve."

"...Gawne and Southall have an uncanny ability to connect the dots between personal and regional histories from below and capitalist backlash on a global scale. This book will become a classic of the Australian left."

friend of Rosa, @melindacooper.bsky.social says this about Crimes of Class: "...a truly moving work of political memoir and a profound reflection on the relationship between capitalism, crime and resistance..." (con'td)

Book Launch: Crims of Class. Mark Gawne & Nick Southall, published by Rosa Press. Saturday March 28, 3–6pm Frontyard Projects, 228 Illawarra Road, Marrickville. The flyer is typeset using the book's cover typeface and is on a background of pale blue, echoing the cover stock.

Rosa Press is very excited to announce that we will be publishing Crimes of Class by @furiousaffects.bsky.social and Nick Southall in March. A Sydney launch is planned for 3–6pm, Saturday March 28 at Frontyard Projects in Marrickville.

Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

What does Epstein’s household economy reveal about the billionaire far-right? Melinda Cooper traces the disturbing logic connecting primal patriarchy, transhumanism, and the rule of masters over servants.
www.equator.org/articles/eps...

Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined Exclusive: Acoss report shows property investors received $12.3bn in tax concessions in 2025, while the share of social housing dropped to a record low * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia spends billions of dollars more on tax breaks for property investors than on social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined, according to research by the Australian Council of Social Service (Acoss). The analysis comes as new data from the Productivity Commission reveals the share of homes dedicated to social housing has dropped to a record low 3.6%, from 5.7% in the 1990s. Continue reading...

Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined

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Materialist Feminist Analyses of Fascist Capitalism
International Workshop
Friday, 13 February 2026
Renate von Metzler-Saal (Cas. 1.801), Goethe-University Frankfurt
With Melinda Cooper, Penelope Deutscher, Clara Mattei, Vanessa E. Thompson, Vanessa Wills
Please register by February 6!

Union calls for end to tax breaks that make Australian housing ‘a vehicle for hoarding wealth’ Manufacturing workers union wants capital gains tax discount to be reduced and then phased out and an effective end to negative gearing

Union calls for end to tax breaks that make Australian housing ‘a vehicle for hoarding wealth’

The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) wants the capital gains discount phased out for investment properties and negative gearing effectively abolished.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Treasury figures reveal $18 billion capital gains windfall for Australia’s richest 10 per cent The latest tax expenditure figures released on Friday by the Treasury department show this financial year the richest 10 percent of Australians will receive $18bn worth of tax breaks from the capital ...

The richest 10% of Australian households get more money from the capital gains tax discount than the government spends on Jobseeker, the childcare subsidy, government schools or higher education - nearly $4.5bn more than it would cost to include dental in Medicare.

Happy to share that my next book 'The Fiscal Fed' will be published by University of Chicago Press in Fall 2026!

Cover design pending: happy to share this beautiful poster from the Harvard Law and Political Economy Project (2023).

proof(s)!

Queensland appoints former chair of rightwing group Advance to school curriculum board as union leaders ousted Catholic education leader also appointed in changes that come amid breakdown in teacher pay negotiations … Stephanie Convery Thu 13 Nov 2025 15.07 AEDT The Queensland Liberal-National government has ousted two union-linked board members from the state's curriculum body and will replace them with conservative figures, including the founding chair of the rightwing lobby group Advance.

Lucy Hamilton The Right's war to control education June 29, 2024 in inD凶 The corporate world is afraid of youth demanding change, particularly as rapacious business practices look set to drive us over the climate cliff into a frightening future. One solution the Right has implemented is the Christian Classical Education movement.

Queensland appointed two Catholic strategists to Ed board, replacing union. Classic 2020s US Right politics, working through the back door to crush public education’s independence & strength. One of them: also culture warrior Advance & Classical Christian Ed. #auspol

johnmenadue.com/post/2024/06...

I have a book cover!

Occult enemies of the market order Post-crisis transformations have sparked debates about a new authoritarian stage and/or post-neoliberal tendencies within neoliberal societies. Drawing on the Brazilian case, this paper analyses th...

Saiu publicado na Economy and Society @econsocjournal.bsky.social o artigo que escrevi com Guilherme Casarões (@casaroes.bsky.social), Letícia Cesarino (@letcesar.bsky.social) e Mariana Côrtes, intitulado "Occult enemies of the market order".
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Is our university system broken? - ABC listen Students are dropping out, academics are burning out, so is enough being done to save higher education? It's a multibillion-dollar sector, employing and educating millions, with expectations it can de...

I spoke to Graeme Turner about his book on the crisis in Australian universities, Broken www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Wages of Citizenship | Michael Macher US immigration enforcement and the cannibalization of labor law

I wrote about the politics of immigration (non)enforcement for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/wag...

LE LABORATOIRE ARGENTIN - DIAGRAMMES "Javier Milei s'est présenté comme le résultat final de la crise de représentation du système."

📹 Verónica Gago @veronicagago.bsky.social, intellectuelle et figure majeure du féminisme latino-américain, analyse l’Argentine de Milei comme un laboratoire du néolibéralisme mutant. Face à lui, elle mise sur la potencia feminista : le désir de tout changer.
Entretien en ligne 👉 buff.ly/SMQHjdw

Powerful statement from Senator @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social in response to vote against Pocock’s ANU OPDs.

Faruqi called Labour and Coalition Senators out on “running a protection racket for the executive of the ANU” ✊

Pocock's Senate fight to unveil secret ANU documents quashed by major parties Genevieve Bell would've had three days to table a list of documents.

ACT Labor Senator Katy Gallagher working hand in hand with Coalition senators to prevent transparency and scrutiny of ANU’s executive and its opaque budgeting.

As Senator @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social said in the chamber today, this is "absolutely shameful.”

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/904934...

ANU students threaten legal action claiming breaches of consumer law School of Music students say proposed changes breach the legislation under which the university operates and amount to misleading and deceptive conduct.

The student consumer model bites back... www.afr.com/work-and-car...

ANU crisis: Pressure mounts on Bishop and Bell As an inquiry hears evidence of alleged bullying and mistreatment, sources confirm there is no desire to change senior management at the ANU.

Australian National University Chancellor Julie Bishop and Vice-Chancellor Genevieve Bell are still standing – not because the storms battering Australia’s premier research institution have eased, but because no one in power wants to force a change. satpa.pe/r47ZfuC

Uni staff told to 'wash delicates' for stress management as 146 courses suspended The University of Technology Sydney is suspending more than 100 courses as it prepares for a controversial redundancy program to save $100 million.

The Albanese government, more than university managers, should be getting the blame for this. Happy to write off $20 billion in student debt because it doesn't appear in the budget deficit, but ripping off current student with high fees and service cuts. #JobReadyGraduates

ANU's horror show only has one fitting ending now This is a wake-up call for Bishop and Bell.

Could someone - anyone - explain why @jasonclaremp.bsky.social hasn't intervened already? www.canberratimes.com.au/story/904099...

While Nous funnels public money to friends, family and associates, Jason Clare reflects on the future of higher education, courtesy of Nous.
live.afr.com/higher-educa...