Coronavirus is a dangerous time for the economy – and nothing makes this clearer than having a Treasurer come out as a Margaret Thatcher fanboy.
Van takes us back to the 1980s to unravel the source of today’s economic inequality, stripped services and dislocation.
Sources & Credits:
“What is Disaster Capitalism?” Video by Van Badham and David Molloy, 2020
Further Reading:
Van Badham, “Australia doesn’t need Thatcher and Reagan’s neoliberal economics of misery” (Guardian, Monday 27 July, 2020)
Frank Bongiorno, The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia (2015)
Milton Friedman, Free To Choose (1980)
Chris Harman, A People’s History of the World (2017 ed.)
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)
Peter Kornbluh, Still Hidden: A Full Record Of What the U.S. Did in Chile (Washington Post,
Sunday 24 October, 1999)
Videos:
- Frydenberg on Insiders: https://twitter.com/InsidersABC/status/1287181451616612352?s=20
- Thatcher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Ac3v-0tks
- Bobby Sands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1OdMYGSWyo
- Falklands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e8Ms0pbPcw
- Thatcher homophobe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VRRWuryb4k
- Reagan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOe8vl4lQNo
- Grenada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dNUCLN6AdE
- Contras: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccZkcFEyUyc
- AIDS statistics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAzDn7tE1lU
- The Day After: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyy9n8r16hs
- Serpent & The Rainbow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Uqqybg1w8
- Mad Max: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk-vHw-mstI
- Street Fighter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6LiEEhmtCI
- Wall Street: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVxYOQS6ggk
- Billionaire Boy’s Club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQOTcBbZQU4
- Morning in America: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/ronald-reagan-morning-in-america-campaign-1984/2018/09/10/e42baddc-b525-11e8-ae4f-2c1439c96d79_video.html
- Mourning in America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_yG_-K2MDo
- Veteran assaulted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgTmGBCncI4
- Family Guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WujgDSsejNg
Music:
- Total Eclipse: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Nathaniel_Wyvern/2019_releases_collection/Nathaniel_Wyvern_-_Distant_Stars_-_01_Total_Eclipse
- Thwack sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQyCe-ATMRc
- Horror sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OQtJaV54bs
- Quirky Dog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQW_PluBR68
- Back To The 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzOOR-021Iw&feature=emb_logo
- Boo noise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltieOefna1A
- Cheering sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQFI7a-KiE8
