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Al Rainnie

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Al Rainnie

Al Rainnie is an Adjunct Professor at Adelaide University and a Cornish Associate of Exeter University. His work has focussed on the political economy of work and employment, with a particular focus on regions, renewables, and Just Transitions.

Recently he has co-authored reports for SAUnions on the future of Whyalla Steelworks. Al was also the author of a report for the MUA, Greenpeaceand a number of other unions and community/environmental groups on Decommissioning Offshore Oil and Gas. He has also written widely on the illusory job creation claims made for AUKUS.

His most recent book (with Darryn Snell and Mark Dean) is Australia’s Regional and Industrial Future: Beyond Militarisation and Green Capitalism (Routledge 2025).

Research by Al Rainnie

Industrial Policy-Making After COVID-19: Manufacturing, Innovation and Sustainability

As Treasurer during the 1980s, Paul Keating lamented that Australian governments had for decades been allowing the country’s sophisticated industrial

By Al Rainnie, Dan Nahum, Jim Stanford, Mark Dean, Mark Dean Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow

Post-COVID-19 policy responses to climate change: beyond capitalism?

A sustainable social, political and environmental response to the “twin crises” of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change will require

By Al Rainnie, Mark Dean, Mark Dean Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow