Challenging the Market: Industrialising the Kimberley: Colin Barnett's hubris

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Industrialising the Kimberley: Colin Barnett's hubris

image of James Price Point, Kimberley, courtsey of Wangle

Excellent piece here by Martin Pritchard, Director of Environs Kimberley about the hubris and nightmarish impact of Colin Barnett's plan to industrialise the Kimberley.

Pritcard shows that the James Price Point development is the first step in the Barnett vision to gift much of the Kimberley region to mining and resource companies and turn into an industrial and mining zone.

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Quotes and Reflections

"The power of the dominant order is not just economic but intellectual-lying in the realm of beliefs"
Pierre Bourdieu

"Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whatever remains of our sense of collective purpose".
Tony Judt

"No lasting change has been successful without large numbers of people acting consciously and collectively around human values of solidarity and social justice, not market values. Markets are great ways to do some things, but not to fashion communities of caring and compassion"
Michael Edwards

"The markets have ruled for a third of a century but it has all ended in tears... Any great failure should force us to rethink. The present economic crises is a great failure of the market system"
Robert Skidelsky

"To concede the authority of the market is to affirm the legitimacy of the hierarchies that markets produce..... The market system is not open to fundamental reform; power relations cannot be changed"
James K Galbraith The Predator State

"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.": Howard Zinn, Historian and Author

"The dazzle of free markets has blinded us to other ways of seeing the world"
Raj Patel

"Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma. The G8's dogma is that the making of profit has to be mankind's guiding principle before which everything else from the traditional past or aspiring future must be sacrificed as illusion"
John Berger

" The capacity of the state for effective political action has been severely limited. As a result, quite a few of the modern-orthodox state functions have escaped or been shifted sideways to the markets, increasingly emancipated from political supervision (let alone direction) or have fallen or been dropped to the area of individually conducted "life politics"- by definition the sacrosanct realm of privacy"
Zygmunt Bauman

"The age of neo-liberalism is still with us despite everything.... no major figure of the neo-liberal cause, anywhere in the world, has recanted or acknowledged the disastrous consequences of their failed revolution.
The citadels of power, status and wealth across the globe still hum to the dynamics, logics and cliches of neo-liberalism despite the devastation they have wrought both recently, and across the whole of the last thirty years".
Gerry Hassan

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Industrialising the Kimberley: Colin Barnett's hubris

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