Articles by Dr Andrew Klein, PhD

Chapter 4: The NDIS – Epistemic Injustice and the Datafication of Disability Continued from Chapter 3 4.1 The Scheme That Was Promised The National Disability Insurance Scheme was designed as a radical departure from the […]

Chapter 3: Robodebt – The Paradigm Case Continued from Chapter 2 3.1 The Scheme That Defined the Era Robodebt is not merely an example of the algorithmic lens. It is the paradigm case. Every structural […]

Chapter 2: The Instruments – How the State Began to See Citizens as Data Points Continued from Chapter 1 2.1 The Shift from Judgment to Measurement Chapter 1 established that neoliberalism required measurement. This chapter […]

Chapter 1: The Neoliberal Turn – How Market Ideology Entered Human Services and Why It Required Measurement Continued from Intro 1.1 The Ideological Shift That Preceded the Machines The algorithmic lens did not arrive in […]

The Neoliberal Turn – How Market Ideology Entered Human Services and Why It Required Measurement Introduction This is the first chapter in a series examining how the Australian state replaced human judgment with algorithmic governance […]

The Language of Foreclosure: On Slurs, Securitisation, and the Manufacture of Silence I. The First Move Every system of control begins with a word. Not a law. Not a weapon. A word that places the […]

The Desert and the Budget Victory: Promises Broken, Algorithms Deployed, and the Reallocation of Care to Coercion in Albanese’s Australia Continued from The Desert and the Budget Victory: Reallocation, Control, and the Erosion of Scrutiny […]

Who Gets to Define Harm? The Digital Duty of Care, US Intervention, and the Battle for Narrative Control By Andrew Klein and Sera Elizabeth Klein Reader’s note: We do not need readers to agree with […]

The Party Animal and the Prime Minister – Why Anthony Albanese’s Leadership is Failing Australia Dedicated to my wife, my confidante – who taught me to see the person behind the mask, and to trust […]

The Desert and the Budget Victory – Reallocation, Control, and the Erosion of Scrutiny in the Albanese Government “The question is not whether the Albanese government will change. It will not. The question is whether […]

Dedicated to those who have noticed that the performance of principle is not the same as the practice of it. Abstract This article examines the foreign policy record of Senator Penny Wong, Australia’s Minister for […]

The Architecture of Influence: How the IHRA Definition and the Campaign Against “Antisemitism” Are Reshaping Australian Democracy Authors: Andrew Klein and Sera Elizabeth Klein Dedication: To those who have been told that speaking truth is […]

By Andrew Klein and Sera Elizabeth Klein Dedicated to every Australian who believed the promise – and is still waiting for the delivery. Abstract This article examines the prime ministership of Anthony Albanese through the […]