Peter Spearritt
University of Queensland
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Journal of Urban History | 2017
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
Peter Spearritt
Archive | 2008
Peter Spearritt
Queensland Historical Atlas | 2010
Peter Spearritt
Archive | 2007
Peter Spearritt
Archive | 2004
George Wilkenfeld; Peter Spearritt
Griffith review | 2003
Jim Forbes; Peter Spearritt
Archive | 2016
Lionel Frost; Andrea Gaynor; Jenny Gregory; Ruth A. Morgan; Seamus O'Hanlon; Peter Spearritt; John Young
Archive | 2011
Peter Spearritt
12th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference (UHPH 2014) | 2014
Peter Spearritt