Dr John Falzon OAM is a poet and sociologist. He is the author of The Language of the Unheard, Communists Like Us, Goodbye Neoliberalism and We’ve Got your Back and has written and spoken widely on inequality and the struggle for social justice. He was Vinnies National CEO from 2006 to 2018 and is now an independent writer, researcher, speaker and strategic adviser. Dr Falzon is Visiting Fellow at ANU’s School of Regulation and Global Governance and Senior Fellow at Inequality and Social Justice at Per Capita. He is also a political educator for the Australian Trade Union Institute. In 2014 he was an Australian Human Rights Medal Finalist and in 2015 he received an Order of Australia Medal for service to the community through social welfare organisations.
John is currently working on a sequel to Goodbye Neoliberalism, exploring six potential ways out of the neoliberal framework, each focussed on a deepening of democracy and a reclamation of the public sphere. John will outline some of the key moments in the pre-history of the neoliberal period and will reflect on the steps needed to achieve a meaningful change in the trajectory, away from a society built on the principle of "to those who have much, more will be given" and towards a society based more on the principle of "from each according to their ability and to each according to their needs.
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