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Clive Hamilton

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Clive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA (born 12 March 1953) is an Australian public intellectual currently serving as Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE)<ref name="CappeBio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is a member of the board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and is the founder and former executive director of The Australia Institute.<ref name="CappeBio"/><ref name="CappeCv">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He regularly appears in the Australian media and contributes to public policy debates.<ref name="LucindaSchmidt">Template:Cite news</ref> Hamilton was granted the award of Member of the Order of Australia on 8 June 2009 for "service to public debate and policy development, particularly in the fields of climate change, sustainability and societal trends".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Education and academic careerEdit

Hamilton graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Arts in history, psychology and pure mathematics in 1975 and completed a Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours from the University of Sydney in 1979. He was an Overseas Commonwealth Postgraduate Scholar and completed his Doctorate at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in 1984.<ref name="CappeCv"/> His thesis was titled "A general equilibrium model of South Korean development".

He was a postdoctoral fellow and research fellow at the Research School of Pacific Studies of the Australian National University from 1984 to 1988 and the director of the Graduate Program in the Economics of the Development at the National Centre for Development Studies of the Australian National University from 1986 to 1988. From 1994 to 1997 he was a senior lecturer in public policy and from 1997 to 2002 he was a fellow in public policy at the Australian National University and he was a Visiting Fellow of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health in 2004.

From 1988 to 1990 he was a senior research economist at the Bureau of Industry Economics of the Federal Department of Industry, Science and Resources (now the Productivity Commission).

Hamilton founded the Australia Institute in 1993 and was executive director until 2008.<ref name="CappeBio"/>

He has been an academic visitor at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, a visiting lecturer at the Oxford Martin School and a visiting professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Oxford.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He is a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and was a visiting scholar of the Department of Land Economy of the University of Cambridge.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He was a senior visiting fellow of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies of Yale University.

WorksEdit

Hamilton has written about the issue of climate change politics over a period of some 15 years.<ref name=km/> His book Requiem for a Species (Earthscan 2010) explores climate change denial and its implications. His earlier books, Scorcher (2007) and Running from the Storm (2001), were critical of the Australian Government's efforts, especially in relation to the Kyoto Protocol.<ref>Tim Flannery. Scorcher: the dirty politics of climate change Template:Webarchive The Age, 25 May 2007.</ref> Hamilton's general view about climate change is that the "world is on a path to a very unpleasant future and it is too late to stop it".<ref name=km>Kelsey Munro. Too late for all but prayers Template:Webarchive The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 February 2010.</ref> Hamilton argues that to believe anything else is to deny the climate change truth and engage in wishful thinking.<ref name=sy>Steven Yearley. Book of the week: Requiem for a Species Template:Webarchive Times Higher Education, 3 June 2010.</ref>

Hamilton has written several books relating to consumerism and overconsumption. Growth Fetish (2003) became an Australian best-seller and suggests that the unthinking pursuit of economic growth has become a fetish, which has not led to any real improvements in levels of happiness.<ref>Ross Gittins. When growth turns into a monster Template:Webarchive The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 May 2008.</ref> In Growth Fetish, Hamilton advocates the politics of wellbeing over economic growth.<ref name=kn/> In Affluenza (2005), Hamilton describes how these themes play out at a personal level, as he explores the shallowness of modern consumer life.<ref name=kn>Kirsty Needham. A serious bout of affluenza Template:Webarchive The Sydney Morning Herald, 28 May 2005.</ref> In What's Left? (2006) Hamilton comments on topics written about in Growth Fetish and Affluenza. He argues that there is an emergence of new types of "alienation and exploitation", in the form of ravages of the free market, which have "robbed life of its meaning".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Freedom Paradox (2008) relates to the nature and consequences of advanced consumer capitalism. In the book Hamilton proposes a system of "post-secular ethics" that will serve as a challenge to the "moral malaise" occasioned by the "freedom of the marketplace".<ref>Richard King. The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-Secular Ethics Template:Webarchive The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 September 2008.</ref>

Silencing Dissent: How the Australian Government is Controlling Public Opinion and Stifling Debate, edited with Sarah Maddison was published in 2007.

In February 2018 Hamilton published the book Silent Invasion: China's influence in Australia on the increasing involvement of the Chinese Communist Party in Australian civil society and politics.<ref name="bookreview">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In June 2020, British businessman and advocate of closer China-UK economic relations Stephen Perry and the 48 Group Club launched a defamation lawsuit in a failed attempt to block the release of Hamilton's Hidden Hand: Exposing How The Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping The World.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Political candidateEdit

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Hamilton campaigning in the seat of Higgins in 2009

On 23 October 2009, Hamilton was announced as the Australian Greens candidate for the by-election in the federal seat of Higgins.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He ran against nine others for the seat, and came second, receiving 32.40 percent of primary votes and 39.77 percent of preferred votes.<ref>Australian Electoral Commission: Higgins By-election results Template:Webarchive</ref> The Australian Labor Party did not run a candidate in the election.

BibliographyEdit

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