The Withering Away of the Australian State: Privatisation and its Implications for Labour

The Concept Of The State In Australian Industrial Relations Theory

“…Elsewhere, the concept of the 'state' is invoked by several writers such as Taylor, Williams, and Fairbrother et al In this vein of the literature, the 'state' is merely a generic title for the combined sections of the executive, legislature and judiciary, typically conflating the institutions of' government' with the concept of the 'state' (Fairbrother et al, 1997;Taylor, 1990;Williams, 1986). …”

Comparative Analysis of Ownership Transformation and Performance Relationship among Major and Regional Banks in Australia

“…Compared to public ownership, private ownership gives the firm incentives to improve performance because it concentrates on benefits to shareholders. This incentive is given effect through the firm's ability to exercise all the elements of property rights (Fairbrother, Svensen and Teicher 1997;Zeckhauser and Horn 1989).…”

Different Paths to Neo‐Liberalism? Comparing Australia and New Zealand

“…It also could be seen in reductions in tariff protection for manufacturing industry, although there also were industry-specific corporatist innovations (Bell, 1993). Widespread privatization of the public sector was resisted (Fairbrother et al, 1997), but extensive reform of the public sector was pursued by borrowing ideas and models from the private sector to produce a "new managerialism" (Gardner and Palmer, 1992).…”

“…Under a new Prime Minister, Paul Keating, Labor accelerated the trend to neo-liberalism. Economic policy increasingly focused on market forces, and privatization of government-owned enterprises was vigorously pursued despite electoral promises to the contrary (Fairbrother et al, 1997), while decisions on industry policy reflected an almost complete reliance on reductions in tariff protection and market forces to restructure export-and importcompeting industries (Easton and Gerritsen, 1996;Bell, 1993).…”