Symbiosis

Abstract

Australian neoliberalism and neoconservatism are two distinct rationalities, but both are dependent for their existence on US power. The fusion of the corporate and security state in Australia is largely based on the expansion of the military-industrial-surveillance complex. Both corporate and security state are committed to the privatization of the common wealth and power and mutually dependent for disciplining society and enforcing compliance of the national interests. Both are modalities of social control relying on structural violence built in a nation-state system of unequal economic, political and social power relations. Together they share governance, define the national interests and control foreign policy.