The politics of council tenders

The story in this episode is composite, drawn from real events. Identifying details are changed. Real-world events the story draws on, full citations, and further reading are below.REAL-WORLD EVENTS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODEAustralia- Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) and its reporting requirements on supply chain due diligence.- Indigenous Procurement Policy under the Department of Finance and Supply Nation as the verified Indigenous business directory.- Victorian Social Procurement Framework and the broader Australian social enterprise sector advocacy through Social Traders and Social Enterprise Australia.- The Australian Indigenous political genealogy referenced in the script: the 1938 Day of Mourning, the 1965 Freedom Ride led by Charles Perkins, the 1972 Aboriginal Tent Embassy, the Land Rights movement, and the Reconciliation movement.- The 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart and Megan Davis's work in Australian and United Nations Indigenous rights forums.Qatar- The kafala employment system and its role in migrant worker exploitation in the lead-up to the 2022 FIFA World Cup.- More than 6,500 migrant worker deaths reported since Qatar won the World Cup bid in 2010, with workers drawn from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, and Kenya.- Documented labour rights abuses during and after the tournament, including wage theft, recruitment fee debt, restricted job changes, and limited remedy.Argentina- The Empresas Recuperadas (worker-recovered enterprise) movement emerging from the 2001 sovereign debt crisis.- Hundreds of factories occupied and re-opened by workers as cooperatives, with the movement continuing to grow over the two decades since.REFERENCES[1] Anti-Slavery International, "Our History." https://www.antislavery.org/about-us/history/[2] Anti-Slavery International, "World Cup 2022: The Reality for Migrant Workers in Qatar." https://www.antislavery.org/latest/world-cup-2022-the-reality-for-migrant-workers-in-qatar/Human Rights Watch, "Qatar: Six Months Post-World Cup, Migrant Workers Suffer" (16 June 2023). https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/06/16/qatar-six-months-post-world-cup-migrant-workers-suffer[3] Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth). https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2018A00153/latest/text[4] National Museum of Australia, "Day of Mourning." https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/day-of-mourningNational Museum of Australia, "Freedom Ride." https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/freedom-rideNational Museum of Australia, "Aboriginal Tent Embassy." https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/aboriginal-tent-embassy[5] Supply Nation, "About Us." https://supplynation.org.au/about/[6] Megan Davis and George Williams, Everything You Need to Know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart (Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2018).Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples." https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/expert-mechanism/emripindex[7] Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (London: Allen Lane, 2018).Centre for Local Economic Strategies, "Community Wealth Building." https://cles.org.uk/community-wealth-building/[8] Jodie Thorpe, Marina Cannon, and Stefano Emili, 'Empresas Recuperadas': Argentina's Recovered Factory Movement, IDS Case Summary No. 4 (Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, 2019). https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/articles/report/_Empresas_Recuperadas_Argentina_s_Recovered_Factory_Movement/26429935[9] Arturo Escobar, Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020). https://www.dukeupress.edu/pluriversal-politicsJ. K. Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006). https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-postcapitalist-politics[10] Social Traders. https://www.socialtraders.com.auSocial Enterprise Australia. https://socialenterpriseaustralia.org.auVictorian Government, Social Procurement Framework. https://www.buyingfor.vic.gov.au/social-procurement-framework[11] Australian Government Department of Finance, "Indigenous Procurement Policy." https://www.indigenous.gov.au/indigenous-procurement-policyCraig Furneaux and Robyn Barraket, "Purchasing Social Good(s): A Definition and Typology of Social Procurement," Public Money and Management 34, no. 4 (2014): 265-272.FURTHER READINGAnti-Slavery International. The world's oldest international human rights organisation, founded 1839. https://www.antislavery.orgMegan Davis and George Williams, Everything You Need to Know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart (2018). Cobble Cobble Australian constitutional lawyer on the architecture of constitutional Indigenous recognition.Arturo Escobar, Pluriversal Politics (2020). Colombian anthropologist on the recognition of many forms of economic life alongside the dominant model.J. K. Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics (2006). Foundational text on the diverse economies and community wealth already operating within capitalist countries.Jodie Thorpe, Marina Cannon, and Stefano Emili, 'Empresas Recuperadas': Argentina's Recovered Factory Movement (2019). Institute of Development Studies case summary on Argentina's worker-recovered enterprise movement.Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything (2018). On public value and the political philosophy of collective wealth.About the hostLiv Roe is a civic and political adviser based in Melbourne. She works with businesses, organisations, and individuals on the political and civic context of their work. Book a consultation at livroe.org. This is a public episode. 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