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Journal of Urban History | 2017

From Water Engineers to Financial Engineering: Water Provision in Australia’s East Coast Capital Cities, 1945-2015

Seamus O'Hanlon; Peter Spearritt

This article analyzes the provision of urban water in Australia’s three east coast capital cities—Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne—from the big dams of the post–World War II years to recently completed desalination plants. We trace how major statutory authorities and their engineers built up both their organizations and their water storage and distribution assets in the Fordist 1950s and 1960s, before these bodies were restructured under the guise of neoliberal notions of accountability and profitability. In their quest to break apart the key institutional pillars of the mid-twentieth-century city, some Leftist critics of the Fordist state may have inadvertently sown the seeds of the neoliberal city of the early twenty-first century. We conclude that the new market-driven organizations are just as interested in their own survival as were their predecessors, and demonstrate even less trust in the general public’s knowledge and practice around water use and conservation.


Australian Economic History Review | 2009

THE 200 KM CITY: BRISBANE, THE GOLD COAST, AND SUNSHINE COAST

Peter Spearritt


Archive | 2008

The water crisis in Southeast Queensland: How desalination turned the region into carbon emission heaven

Peter Spearritt


Queensland Historical Atlas | 2010

The 200 kilometre city

Peter Spearritt


Archive | 2007

The Sydney Harbour Bridge

Peter Spearritt


Archive | 2004

Electrifying Sydney: 100 Years of Energy Australia

George Wilkenfeld; Peter Spearritt


Griffith review | 2003

Rum Corps to white-shoe brigade

Jim Forbes; Peter Spearritt


Archive | 2016

Water, history and the Australian city: Urbanism, suburbanism and watering a dry continent, 1788-2015

Lionel Frost; Andrea Gaynor; Jenny Gregory; Ruth A. Morgan; Seamus O'Hanlon; Peter Spearritt; John Young


Archive | 2011

Essay: What is heritage?

Peter Spearritt


12th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference (UHPH 2014) | 2014

Why Melbourne kept its trams

Peter Spearritt

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Marion Stell

University of Queensland

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Andrea Gaynor

University of Western Australia

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Celmara Pocock

University of Southern Queensland

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Clive McAlpine

University of Queensland

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David Carter

University of Queensland

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Geoff Ginn

University of Queensland

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