Only in Australia The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism

1975, both later disbanded (Marriott 2009). But, since the 1980s, superannu- ation has become an entrenched component of Austral ...

workers but on employers. If Australians had ever been asked explicitly whether they would like a portion of their wages compuls ...

Love, D. 2008.Unfinished Business: Paul Keating’s Interrupted Revolution. Melbourne: Scribe. Marriott, L. 2009.‘The politics of ...

11 Australia’s Economic Mores through the Lens of the Professional Sports Industry Individual Rights or State Paternalism? Richa ...

or the exemption from laws and public policies so comprehensive. Despite large and growing revenues, the sports industry benefit ...

sports industry increased greatly over the twentieth century, and in the twenty-first century many sports are global. Labour res ...

1871, started as a competition among former pupils of private schools, but in the 1880s became dominated by teams from the indus ...

behaviour off thefield’(Ward 2009, p. 593). Nevertheless, this was a different order of magnitude from the situation in England, ...

Following the relocation of one club to Sydney in 1982, the Victorian Football League (VFL) (renamed the Australian Football Lea ...

$1,252 million; and in 2012 the National Rugby League (NRL) announced a $1,025 million TV deal. The rents are distributed to own ...

justify restrictions on the labour market such as payroll caps or the reverse- order draft. The degree to which such restraints ...

traditionally taken place, in particular to more remote locations, these have generally been seen as temporary measures at early ...

in Australia, apart from the isolated success of the rugby league players.^10 In the European Union (EU), sports labour markets ...

market forces has largely been one of complaisant governments permitting restrictive practices. 11.3 Government Subsidies for Pr ...

The subsidy appeared to be around $10 million. Some of the projects listed in Table 11.2 can be identified with individual polit ...

America. If there are positive externalities then some public support may be justified, but the extent to which the state covers ...

codes lie somewhere in between, with rugby union offering the most attract- ive conditions for top players due to the internatio ...

In sum, public economic policy towards professional spectator sports in Australia has two main components. With respect to monop ...

revenues was muted by the dominance of the public broadcaster, the ABC. Only in thefinal decades of the twentieth century did TV ...

with a powerful, secretive, and paternalistic government. The state promotes and spends money on elite sports to an extent unpar ...