The Australian electricity sector has been radically restructured during the last decade. The drivers of this restructuring are sector-specific and public sector policies, and the broader macro policy approach of the Australian state. Using the analytical framework of French régulation theory,...

With the ascendancy of neoliberalism, the Australian state has not only remained strongly interventionist but expanded its sphere of influence and scope of activity which is contrary to claims of a reduced, withered or slimmed neoliberal state. The Australian state's interventions have become...