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...

Twenty-first century access to energy sources depends on a complex system of global markets, vast cross-border infrastructure networks, a small group of primary energy suppliers, and interdependencies with financial markets and technology. This is the context in which energy security has risen...

Neoliberalism has transformed markets supplying public goods. Analysis of five real-world Australian markets reveals the eligibility rules for access and ongoing participation, interaction of participants, the role of intermediaries and government, the extent of competition, complex regulatory...

Markets for essential goods and services have been radically restructured by market-based public policies embedded with the lexicon of neoclassical economics and the virtues of neoliberalism. This article seeks to elucidate the necessary actions, induced by market rules, an individual must take...