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Global environmental (in)equity and the cosmopolitan project
Full text linkThis paper examines the relationship between economic globalisation and environmental inequity which is defined in terms of transnational harm and injustice. It argues that globalisation has been neither normatively neutral nor materially benign in its environmental consequences. The global politics of the environment has therefore come to be characterised by inequities in the use of resources and production of waste, in environmental impact, and in access to the structures of environmental governance at a local and global level. In effect, the lives of others-beyond-borders are shaped without their participation or consent. Drawing on cosmopolitanism as an ethical and political practice suggests that at least three conditions are essential for an equitable and just form of global environmental governance: recognition of equal moral obligation across borders, compensatory burden-sharing and a politics of consent. However, actual global practice on the environment has fallen short on each, complicated and compromised by uncertainty over the role of the state as moral agent in a globalised world
Landscapes apart: museums and Australian suburbia
No full textPublic museums are a critical element of the public sphere ? the domain that links and affirms us all as citizens, irrespective of our individual traits, our birthplace, our place of residence, our religion, our economic status etc. But according to Brendan Gleeson, assessment, the public sphere in our suburban regions is not in good health. Presented to Cities & Museums Conference, Brisbane 3 September 2004
What is metropolitan planning?
No full textBrendan Gleeson, Toni Darbas, Laurel Johnson and Suzanne Lawson develop an operational framework for describing and analysing metropolitan plans. The framework aims to provide a basis for describing and analysing current metropolitan plans with reference to key Australian and overseas debates about urban strategic planning, and provide an operational structure for the formulation of a metropolitan plan. This is the first of four reports for Planning NSW. Brendan Gleeson, Toni Darbas, Laurel Johnson and Suzanne Lawson develop an operational framework for describing and analysing metropolitan plans. The framework aims to provide a basis for describing and analysing current metropolitan plans with reference to key Australian and overseas debates about urban strategic planning, and provide an operational structure for the formulation of a metropolitan plan. This is the first of four reports for Planning NSW. Direct access to all four PDF files are: What is metropolitan planning? Making a difference with metropolitan strategy: overseas evidence Making a difference with metropolitan strategy: Australian evidence The difference metropolitan strategies make: lessons to be learne
Public land agencies in Australia: the key to positive planning?
No full textBrendan Gleeson and Eddo Coiacetto review the historical and contemporary contexts for public land development in Australia, focusing on the rationale for this form of government intervention in urban and peri-urban land markets. They focus on the specific case of public land development agencies: state owned enterprises that participate directly in land markets, via the wholesale or retail sale of land and/or the development of physical structures, including housing
What is happening in the suburbs?
No full textThese two papers were presented at the Evatt Foundation\u27s Breakfast Seminar on 18 March 2002, Mayfair Room, Southern Cross Hotel, Sydney. Mark Latham MP is the Shadow Minister for Housing and Urban Development. Dr Brendan Gleeson is the Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Urban Frontiers Program, University of Western Sydney (Macarthur).
The discussion was chaired by Foundation Executive Committee member, Professor Frank Stilwell, School of Economics and Political Science, University of Sydney
The greatest spoiler
No full textAustralia’s development history is, as the historian Geoffrey Bolton describes it, a tale of spoils and spoilers writes Brendan Gleeson in Griffith Review 29 White settlers unleashed a rough-handed growth model that saw the land as an enemy to be vanquished. Its original owners were no more than troublesome fauna. Development necessitated that they be contained and, if necessary, culled. Raymond Evans’ history of Queensland details the murderous work of the Native Police. Adults and children were shot down and babies ‘brained’ – held upside down by the ankles and clubbed on their heads until dead. Tony Roberts relates the same tale of slaughter in the Gulf Country, estimating that as many as eight hundred men, women and children and babies were killed before 1910. These are mere windows into a house of horrors. None of this was as insane as it now appears. Development was lethal but logical – and closely sanctioned. The murderers were almost never held to account. And despoliation was praised, not condemned. This was development at work: muscular, sweaty, bloody, but necessary. The savage clearances of bush, fauna and native peoples were the pointy end of the process of naming, containing and civilising the land, rendering it productive and profitable. The first work was to make secure and potent the urban bases of the new colonies. Great spaces were then cleared and claimed for pastoralism. Mining followed, eventually catching up with agriculture. In the cities, the ‘development game’ has been our national code. From the earliest times developers joined civic purpose to venal interest. The aptly named Thomas Bent (1838-1909), twenty-second Premier of Victoria, was emblematic. In a long corrupt innings Bent played skilfully and unlawfully. But he knew the rules of the game. As the Minister of Railways he approved a tramline that ran past his properties and thus inflated their worth. In the century following, the tradition of public office for private gain was steadfastly observed. Max Gillies’ caricature of Russ Hinze (1919-91), Queensland’s Minister for Everything – including, simultaneously, the portfolios of racing and liquor licensing – put it best. ‘In Queensland we don’t have conflicts of interests, only [gloating chuckle] convergences of interest,’ Gillies’ Hinze declared, and the fat man would have agreed: joined-up policy, Queensland style. Read the full article in Griffith Revie
Responding to regional disadvantage: what can be learned from the International Experience?
No full textFinal report of a study of regional housing and assistance policies in the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom by Brendan Gleeson
Into the storm
No full textTV film score (additional orchestration by Andrew Fisher)EMMY-winner (2009): Best Score, Howard GoodallGolden Globe-nomination (2009): Brendan Gleeson, Best Actor<br/
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