Georgina Murray – The Conversation

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February 19, 2025

Two in five scientists in our survey reported harassment and intimidation. Often, the perpetrators are inside the institution

Robert Hales, Griffith University; Carolyn Troup, Griffith University; David Peetz, Griffith University; Georgina Murray, Griffith University, and Ian Lowe, Griffith University

Science doesn’t occur in a vacuum – politics, harassment and intimidation can hamstring progress.

Women’s activism has indeed enabled progress to be made in norms and direct gender regulation, but it has not prevented, the growth of market liberalism that has increased regulation distance in many areas. Richard Milnes/ newzulu

July 28, 2017

Here’s an important reason the gender pay gap isn’t closing

David Peetz, Griffith University and Georgina Murray, Griffith University

The weakening of collective rights and employment protections has harmed the relative position of women in ways that have offset gains through changing values and individual rights.

Data shows coal is on the way out. Wesfarmers/AAP

May 4, 2017

The government is swimming against the tide on Westpac’s Adani decision

David Peetz, Griffith University and Georgina Murray, Griffith University

As the cost of renewable energy falls, funding a new mine is a risky investment.

BlackRock Inc is relatively unknown outside financial circles, but it owns the largest share in the biggest 299 companies in the world. Edward Munoz/Reuters

April 11, 2017

Who owns the world? Tracing half the corporate giants’ shares to 30 owners

David Peetz, Griffith University and Georgina Murray, Griffith University

Today the world is dominated by 30 financial corporations that hold more than half the shareholdings of its corporate giants. And they follow the logic of finance capital – the logic of money.

Many companies, even heavily polluting ones, may adapt to and go along with action on climate. But how can they be influenced to do so? AAP/Supplied

March 10, 2014

Class and climate: how financial warfare affects the air

David Peetz, Griffith University and Georgina Murray, Griffith University

The Conversation is running a series, Class in Australia, to identify, illuminate and debate its many manifestations. Here, David Peetz and Georgina Murray look at divisions within capital over the future…

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