Australia's BHP Ltd—an emerging Transnational Resources Corporation

Fagan, Bob

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“…Take the example of the declining steel industry on the NSW Illawarra coast when BHP appealed to the Federal Government for massive assistance to upgrade its technical base. With support from a regional Australian Geographer 25 (2), November, 1994 coalition of workers, residents and local business people keen to 'save their region', BHP was successfully granted depreciation allowances, tax breaks and investment assistance for the acquisition of new technology (Fagan 1987). The Federal Government, in allowing a massive redistribution of national wealth to flow to this particular enterprise, displayed a simple belief in the centred corporation.…”

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“…In the case of the Illawarra, the hope that shoring up BHP's profitability would benefit the BHP steel division and the South Coast economy was not realised. The international acquisitions and operations of BHP flourished and no new jobs were created in the Illawarra (Fagan 1987). The flow of resources to BHP steel was distributed within the corporation as class payments to secure productive operations elsewhere and to engage in non-class revenue generation activities such as buying and selling assets and currency.…”

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Reflections on regions, the white paper and a new class politics of distribution

Gibson‐Graham

1994

Australian Geographer

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Reflections on regions, the white paper and a new class politics of distribution

Gibson‐Graham

1994

Australian Geographer

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“…Case-studies of the largest Australian industrid organisations have shown a 'double movement' of capital towards both the largest northern hemisphere markets (especially the United States) and the NICs. Since 1981 investments in North America and Western Europe by TNCs domiciled in Australia, such as BHP Ltd and Elders IXL Ltd, have dwarfed their investments in the Third World (Australia: Bureau of Industry Economics, 1983;Fagan, 1986a). Australian manufacturing is squeezed from both sides of this double capital movement.…”

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Industrial Geography: Restructuring in theory and practice

Wilde¹,

Fagan²

1988

Australian Geographical Studies

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The study of Australia's industrial geography effectively dates from the 1950s with the collation of systematic information on individual industries. The 1960s saw a burgeoning and an increasing sophistication of the geographical literature, much of it by a relatively small group of researchers. The growth in the number of industrial geographers in universities and colleges from the late 1960s brought new perspectives to research and swelled the volume of literature during the 70s and 80s. Throughout the entire period industrial geographers in Australia have largely devoted themselves to a study of Australian issues, in part because of the rich and scarcely touched topics that presented themselves and in part from a feeling of responsibility to investigate pertinent political, social and economic issues. Recently, these studies have been increasingly set in the context of the Pacific and global economies, as the particular circumstances influencing Australian industrial geography forced researchers to consider international influences and relationships before those in some other nations (Thrift, 1985). This has given an international significance to recent Australian work and a distinctly Antipodean contribution to the new industrial geography of the 1980s.The hallmark of industrial geography over this quarter of a century has been its dynamism. As in other social sciences, there have been major paradigm shifts as a result of both the mounting criticism of the prevailing orthodoxy from within the discipline, and the dramatic social, economic and political change within the society being studied. The 1950s and 60s were marked by the relatively stable external environment of the 'long boom' and industrial geographers in Australia, as elsewhere in the world, were primarily concerned to establish a statement of industrial structure and distributions and to grapple with theoretical frameworks and criticisms of them from within the discipline. The 1970s, in contrast, saw the transformation of these foundations as the crisis in Australia and the world demanded new and broader theoretical and empirical approaches to industrial and regional studies. In keeping with these major stages in the subject's evolution. this paper will first explore the evolution of industrial geography during the long boom of the 50s and 60s. and then examine the major themes which have assumed importance since the mid-1970s.Department of Geography, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252C, Hobart, Tas., 7001 and School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University. North Rydc, NSW. 21 13.

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“…While BHP Ltd increased the proportion of its steel production exported since the late 1980s, this has reflected the impact of the recession on steel-using industries in Australia and, hence, on BHPs domestic order book. The company has retained its primary focus on the domestic market for its steel division, rather than actively pursuing a strategy aimed at major steel exports to the Asia-Pacific region (Fagan 1986). Garnaut's hopes seem to rest either with some of Australia's other large iron ore exporters including basic steel in their exports to Pacific Rim customers, or steelmakers from newly-industrialising countries locating plants in Australia rather than importing our low-cost coal and iron ore!…”

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Industry policy and the macro‐economic environment

Fagan

1991

Australian Geographer

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Australia's BHP Ltd—an emerging Transnational Resources Corporation

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Reflections on regions, the white paper and a new class politics of distribution

Reflections on regions, the white paper and a new class politics of distribution

Industrial Geography: Restructuring in theory and practice

Industry policy and the macro‐economic environment

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