Damien Cahill’s research focuses primarily on the relationship between the economy and society. This informs his writing on: neo-liberal think tanks; prison privatization; neo-liberalism and the global financial crisis; neo-liberal hegemony; and the social foundations of the contemporary Australian economy.

His work has appeared in publications including Arena, Australian Journal of Political Science, Journal of Australian Political Economy, Labour History, Overland, Rethinking Marxism and Z-Magazine. He has also contributed several book chapters to edited collections. In 2008 Damien edited (with Frank Stilwell) a special edition of the Journal of Australian Political Economy entitled ‘Australia’s Economic Boom, 1992-?’.

• Neoliberalism
• Think Tanks
• Australian Economic Policy
• Australian Politics
• Hegemony
• Privatisation
• Deregulation
• Marketisation

2009

Submission to Government Inquiry

Andrew J. and Cahill D., Submission to the NSW Parliament Inquiry into the privatisation of prisons and prison-related services, 26th February 2009: http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/PARLMENT/committee.nsf/0/f9c734efb7697ea6ca257577001fd0d8/$FILE/Submission%20172.pdf

Article/s

Andrew, J. & D. Cahill, ‘Value for Money? Neo-Liberalism in New South Wales Prisons’, Australian Accounting Review No. 49 Vol. 19 Issue 2 2009, pp. 144-152

Cahill, D., ‘The End of Neoliberalism?, Z Magazine, January, pp. 35-38

2008

Article/s

Cahill D, ‘Think Tanks and Public Policy’, Australian Review of Public Affairs, February, http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2008/02/cahill.html

Cahill D and Brown S, ‘The Rise and Fall of the Australian Greens: The 2002 Cunningham By-election and its Implications’, Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 43, No. 2, June, pp. 259-275.

Cahill D and Stilwell F, ‘The Australian Economic Boom 1992-?’, Journal of Australian Political Economy, No. 61, June, pp. 5-11.

Cahill D, ‘Labo(u)r, the Boom and the Prospects for an Alternative to Neo-Liberalism’, Journal of Australian Political Economy, No. 61, June, pp. 321-336.

Book Chapter/s

Cahill D, ‘Politics’ in Brian Furze, Pauline Savy, Robert Brym and John Lie (eds), Sociology in Today’s World, Cengage Learning Australia, South Melbourne, pp. 173-195.

Cahill D, ‘Hegemony and the Neoliberal Historical Bloc: The Australian Experience’, in Richard Howson and Kylie Smith (eds), Hegemony: Studies in Consensus and Coercion, Routledge, New York, pp. 201-217

Conference Paper/s

Andrew J and Cahill D, ‘Neoliberalism and New South Wales Prisons: Re-regulation through Value for Money reporting’, 2008 Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference, New York.

Cahill D and Andrew J , ‘Privatisation and New South Wales Prisons: Value for Money and Neo-liberal Regulation’, Second Biennial Conference of the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance of the European Consortium for Political Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands, http://regulation.upf.edu/utrecht-08-papers/dcahill.pdf.

2007

Journal Article/s

Cahill D 2007 'McKew and Bennelong a Distraction for Labor', New Matlida, vol.133.

Cahill D 2007 'The Contours of Neo-liberal Hegemony in Australia', Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society, vol.19:2, pp. 221-33.

Internal Working Paper/s

Andrew J and Cahill D 2007 'Value for Money? Neo-liberalism and New South Wales Prisons´', Wollongong: University of Wollongong School of Accounting and Finance.

2006

Journal Article/s

Cahill D and Cahill R 2006 'The 1978 Military Occupation of Bowral', Illawarra Unity: Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, vol.6:1.

Conference Paper/s

Cahill D 2006 'Coercion, Consent and the Neoliberal Project in Australia',Rethinking Marxism Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

2005

Journal Article/s

Cahill D and Beder S 2005 'Neo-liberal think tanks and neo-liberal restructuring: learning the lessons from Project Victoria and the privatisation of Victoria´s electricity industry', Social Alternatives, vol.24:1, pp. 43-48.

Cahill D and Beder S 2005 'Regulating the power shift: the state, capital and electricity privatisation in Australia', Journal of Australian Political Economy, vol.55, pp. 5-22.

Cahill D 2005 'From the fringes: the emergence from obscurity of the Australian radical neo-liberal movement', The Hummer, vol.4:3.

Cahill D 2005 'Politics and Propaganda - Review of Greg Barnes, Selling the Australian Government: Politics and Propaganda from Whitlam to Howard', Australian Review of Public Affairs.

Cahill D 2005 'Researching the Australian New Right: A Glimpse at the Process of Discovery', Rhizome: A Cross-Disciplinary Postgraduate Journal, vol.1, pp. 113-123.

Cahill D 2005 'The Right values in education: neo-liberal think tanks and the assault upon public schooling', Overland, vol.179, pp. 9-14.

Conference Paper/s

Brown S and Cahill D 2005 'The Green Constituency: Evidence From Cunningham ',Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Otago, New Zealand: Conference Papers APSA 05 (website), 1-15.

Cahill D and Cahill R 2005 'Civilian responses to peace-time military occupation: the 1978 Bowral call-out and its implications for the war on terrorism',Ninth National Australian Labour History Conference, University of Sydney: Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 55-61.

Cahill D 2005 'Neo-liberalism and neo-liberal hegemony in Australia',Hegemony: Explorations Into Consensus, Coercion and Culture Conference, University of Wollongong.

Seminar Paper/s

Cahill D 2005 'Neo-liberal Think Tanks: Ideas, Interests and Social Policy', Sociology Seminar Series, University of Sydney, September 19th 2005.

2004

Book Section/s

Cahill D 2004 'Contesting Hegemony: The Radical Neo-liberal Movement and the Ruling Class in Australia' in Ruling Australia: The Power, Privilege and Politics of the New Ruling Class,, ed. Nathan Hollier, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne.

Cahill D 2004 'New Class Discourse and the Construction of Left-wing Elites' in Us and Them: Anti-elitism in Australia, ed. Marian Sawer and Barry Hindess, API Network, Perth.

Journal Article/s

Cahill D 2004 'In the vanguard', Workers Online, vol.232.

Conference Paper/s

Cahill D 2004 'Ideas and Interests: The radical neo-liberal movement and the neo-liberal counter-revolution in Australia',Social Change Research in the 21st Century Conference, Queensland University of Technology.

Cahill D 2004 'The radical neo-liberal movement and its impact upon Australian politics',Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Adelaide.

Seminar Paper/s

Cahill D 2004 'From Fringe Dwellers to Opinion Makers: A History of the Radical Neo-liberal Movement in Australia', Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Sydney Branch, 25th July, 2004.

2003

Conference Paper/s

Cahill D 2003 'The Australian Radical Neo-liberal Movement and US Global Strategy',Now We The People Conference, UTS.

Electronic Source

Cahill D 2003 'The Australian Radical Neo-liberal Movement and US Global Strategy', Now We The People Website.

Seminar Paper/s

Cahill D 2003 'New Class Discourse and the Construction of Left-wing Elites', Us and Them: Anti-Elitism in Australia, ANU, July 10-11, 2003.

Cahill D 2003 'The Radical Neo-liberal Movement in Australia – or What the Hell Have I Been Doing Here for the Last Four-and-a-half Years?' History and politics Program Seminar Series,, University of Wollongong.

2002

Journal Article/s

Cahill D 2002 'Funding the Ideological Struggle', Overland, vol.168.

Conference Paper/s

Cahill D 2002 'The Markets, Morals and Civil Society Project: Conflict and Consensus on the Australian Right',APSA, ANU.

Seminar Paper/s

Cahill D 2002 'The Markets, Morals and Civil Society Project: Conflict and Consensus on the Australian Right', ISCCI Seminar Series, University of Wollongong.

Newspaper Article/s

Connell RW, Cahill D and Campbell M 2002 'The Order of Australia (Symposium)', The Sunday Age, July 14, 2002.

2001

Book Section/s

Cahill D 2001 'The Australian Rights New Class Discourse and the Construction of the Political Community' in Labour and Community: Historical Essays, ed. R. Markey, UOW Press, Wollongong.

Journal Article/s

Cahill D 2001 'The Anti-WEF Protests and the Media', Social Alternatives.

Cahill D 2001 'Why the Right Uses Class Against the Left', Arena Journal, vol.16.

2000

Journal Article/s

Cahill D 2000 'Review, Helen Trinca and Anne Davies, Waterfront: the Battle that Changed Australia', Journal of Social Change and Critical Inquiry.

Cahill D 2000 'Review, Katherine Betts, The Great Divide: Immigration Politics in Australia; Glenn Patmore and Dennis Glover (eds), New Voices for Social Democracy: Labor Essays 1999-2000; Michael Thompson, Labor Without Class: The Gentrification of the ALP', Labour History, vol.79.

Conference Paper/s

Cahill D 2000 'Neo-liberal Intellectuals as Organic Intellectuals? Some Notes on the Australian Context',APSA, ANU.

Cahill D 2000 'The Medias Coverage of the s11 Protests in Melbourne',ISCCI Conference, University of Wollongong.

Electronic Source

Cahill D 2000 'The anti-WEF protests and the media', Z-net .

1999

Journal Article/s

Cahill D 1999 'Review, Frances Stonnor-Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War', Overland , vol.157.

Conference Paper/s

Cahill D 1999 'The Australian Rights New Class Discourse and the Construction of the Political Community',6th National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Wollongong.

Cahill D 1999 'The Re-invention of Class',Retrospections Conference, UNSW.