I acknowledge the assistance of the Noel Butlin Archives at the Australian National University, and the University of Melbourne Archives. For permission to access collections, I thank the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), the Victorian Trades Hall Council (VTHC) and the National and Victorian Branches of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU). For access to other materials, I thank the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library, the National Archives of Australia, the University of Sydney Library, Frank Stilwell, Paul Frijters and Robert Gregory. In 2013, I received the University of Sydney & WZB Fellowship at the Berlin Social Science Research Centre and I thank John Keane. I thank Dieter Plehwe for his support and friendship while I was in Berlin, and in the years following. I am also grateful to the Varuna National Writers’ House for two residencies. Thank you to Lisa Adkins and the participants in the Neoliberalism’s Complexities workshop at the University of Newcastle (Sydney Campus) in December 2017, as their presentations and feedback on my paper provided excellent motivation for revisions on the final chapter of this book. Thank you to Peter Thomas, Colin Barker, Jenny Haines, Humphrey McQueen and, more sadly, Frans Timmerman (1947–2014) and John Kaye (1955–2016) for advice during my research. I acknowledge the assistance of Kieran Latty in creating Figure 6.2, Margie Tubbs for proofreading and Amy Thomas for the index.
My colleagues at the University of Technology Sydney have provided incredible support while I was writing this book: thank you to Chris Ho, Liz Giuffre, Sarah Attfield, Lucy Fiske, Ben Abraham, Devleena Ghosh and Maryanne Dever. This book draws on my Ph.D., which I completed in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. I thank Gareth Bryant and Adam Morton in particular. My Ph.D. supervisor, Damien Cahill, and associate supervisor, Bill Dunn, were unfailingly generous. I am particularly indebted to Damien for his guidance, astuteness and for our friendship over many years. This book also benefitted from the thoughtful feedback provided by my Ph.D. examiners, and I thank Alfredo Saad-Filho, Andreas Bieler and Carol Johnson. Thank you to David Fasenfest, Jennifer Obdam and Judy Pereira for their thoughtful guidance and the opportunity to publish in this series.
Finally, thank you to my friends and family for their support. Thank you to Tadeusz Tietze for everything he did that made the Ph.D., which this book draws on, possible. Thank you to Frank Humphrys, Susan Humphrys, Fiona Collison, Luke Humphrys, Rachael Humphrys, Katerina Kraenzel-Paneras, Martin Kraenzel, Clinton Hill, Claire Parfitt, Eve Vincent, Jessica Whyte, Ihab Shalbek, Inger Mewburn, Tom Barnes, Rory Dufficy, Elena Gomez, Zoe Bowman, Frances Lockie and Devina Potter.