Civics & Commerce
Stories on the political forces shaping business and community. civicsandcommerce.substack.com
Episodes
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. The
identifying details have been changed to protect privacy, but the situations
and the political contexts are real. The real-world events the story draws on,
full citations, and further reading are below.
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Marriage as a political institution
- The political theory of marriage in liberal modernity has been a substantive
...
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. The identifying details have been changed to protect privacy, but the situations and the political contexts are real. The real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
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Tā moko and its colonial suppression
- Tā moko, the customary Māori practice of marking the face and body, was
...
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. The identifying details have been changed to protect privacy, but the situations and the political contexts are real. The real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
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The British anti-slavery sugar boycotts
- In the 1790s, a popular British movement urged ordinary households to ...
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. The identifying details have been changed to protect privacy, but the situations and the political contexts are real. The real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
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Pharmacist scope of practice in Australia
- Queensland’s Community Pharmacy Scope of Practice Pilot began ...
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. The identifying details have been changed to protect privacy, but the situations and the political contexts are real. The real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
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The political project of mass public education
- Victoria passed an Education Act in 1872 that made schooling fr...
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. The identifying details have been changed to protect privacy, but the situations and the political contexts are real. The real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
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The shadow state
- The American geographer Jennifer Wolch set out the concept of the shadow state in a 1990 stud...
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. The identifying details have been changed to protect privacy, but the situations and the political contexts are real. The real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
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The car as a political object
- André Gorz (1923 to 2007), the Austrian-born French philosopher and journalist w...
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. The identifying details have been changed to protect privacy, but the situations and the political contexts are real. The real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
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Civic participation: theory and traditions
- Sherry Arnstein’s 1969 article A Ladder of Citizen Participat...
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. The identifying details have been changed to protect privacy, but the situations and the political contexts are real. Real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
REAL-WORLD EVENTS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
Australia
The Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement of 1945 committed the federal and state governments to funding pu...
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. The identifying details have been changed to protect privacy, but the situations and the political contexts are real. Real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
REAL-WORLD EVENTS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
Australia
The Senate Community Affairs References Committee inquiry into universal access to reproductive healthcare...
Episode 13. Show notes
The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. The identifying details have been changed to protect privacy, but the situations and the political contexts are real. Real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
REAL-WORLD EVENTS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
Australia
The Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2018 (Vic), passed by the Victorian Parliament in Sept...
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. Identifying details are changed. Real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
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Australia
The Industrial Chemicals Act 2019 (Cth) commenced on 1 July 2020, replacing the previous National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS) with the Australian Industri...
Episode 11, The Childcare Centre
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. Identifying details are changed. Real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
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Australia
- The 2026-27 federal budget handed down by Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Tuesday 12 May 2026, including the Three Day Guarantee replacing the activity test on sub...
Episode 10 — The Cafe
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. Identifying details are changed. Real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
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Australia
- The launch of Hospo Voice on 21 May 2018 in Melbourne by United Voice (now United Workers Union) as Australia's first digital union, organising hospitality worker...
Episode 9 — The Waste Management Business
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. Identifying details are changed. Real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
REAL-WORLD EVENTS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
Australia
- The Australian recycling crisis that arrived in early 2018 following China's National Sword policy, with council kerbside recycling cost incre...
Episode 8 — The Scaffolding Company
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. Identifying details are changed. Real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
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Australia
- Around 30 to 45 worker deaths a year in the Australian construction industry, with the most recent annual figure 36 per cent above the five-year ave...
CIVICS AND COMMERCE
Episode 7 — The Butcher
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. Identifying details are changed. Real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
REAL-WORLD EVENTS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
Australia
- The ACCC Supermarkets Inquiry 2024-25, with final report delivered 28 February 2025 and published 21 March 2025. The inquiry formally found t...
CIVICS AND COMMERCE
Episode 6 — The Brow and Lash Studio
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. Identifying details are changed. Real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
REAL-WORLD EVENTS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
Cyprus
- Sophia Hadjipanteli, Cypriot-British model, and the Unibrow Movement, her ongoing project foregrounding her natural unibrow as a de...
CIVICS AND COMMERCE
Episode 5 — The Plumbing Business
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. Identifying details are changed. Real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
REAL-WORLD EVENTS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
Australia
- Chronic sanitation infrastructure failures in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, documented across Closing t...
CIVICS AND COMMERCE
Episode 4 — The Farming Family
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The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. Identifying details are changed. Real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.
REAL-WORLD EVENTS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
Australia
- Federal water plan for the Murray-Darling Basin (Water Act 2007 and Murray-Darling Basin Plan 2012), administered by the Murray-Darlin...
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