Research on neoliberalism, monopolies, contestability, privatisation and deregulation
Publications - recent
William Baumol and Contestability: From AT&T to Platforms
This article explores the work undertaken by economist William Baumol for the US telecommunications giant AT&T in a career that spanned three decades from the mid 1960s, and its contribution to the formation of platform markets. 
The Imitation Economy: How AT&T's Contestability Doctrine Transformed the Neoliberal Project
My PhD thesis examines how the philosophical foundations of the neoliberal movement was compatible with the formation of monopolistic industry structures based upon ICT networks that led to the formation of platform capitalism. 
Contestability 'Theory', Its Links with Australia's Competition Policy, and Recent International Trade and Investment Agreements
This article examines how the contestability doctrine has come to reconfigure the economic and regulatory concept of competition in order to enhance the compatibility of Australia’s economy with international trade and investment agreements. Publications - general
Vocational education: A chronology of privatisation Article shows how governments have continued to roll out privatisation even in the face of mounting costs and corruption and falling education standards.
Saving TAFE: An article in honour of the memory of Dr John Kaye. Former NSW Green's MLA John Kaye campaigned against TAFE privatisation. In this article I show how contestability in the vocational education sector is used to justify privatisation and the sell-off of TAFE assets. 
Colton, Caroline. The Sum of All Our Fears: transnational corporations and the crisis of convergence in Australia. DISSENT, No. 43, December 2013. This article examines the interrelationship between key factors forging privatisation and corporatisation in Australia.
Faunce, Thomas & Colton, Caroline. Paying for Australia’s infrastructure. The Canberra Times, 2 December 2013. Republished in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
How infrastructure utilised by private corporations is being funded by tax. 
Colton, Caroline. Saving Your Legacy. Your Life Choices, 19 May 2014.
A letter to my mother, describing life in Australia today. Publications - health and law
Colton, Caroline. Professional Misconduct: The Case of the Medical Board of Australia v Tausif (Occupational Discipline). Journal of Law and Medicine, Vol. 22/3, 2015. This article discusses a case that highlights the professional pressures placed on general practitioners who practice medicine within the framework of corporate bulk-billing business models.
Colton, Caroline & Thomas Faunce. The Health Legislation Amendment Act 2013 (Qld) and Queensland’s health assets privatisation dispute. Journal of Law and Medicine, Vol. 22/1, 2014. New legislation in Queensland has provided a "pathway" for the privatisation of health assets and services that effectively realigns the health care system to financial markets.
Colton, Caroline & Thomas Faunce. Commissions of Audit in Australia: Health system privatisation directives and civil conscription protections. Journal of Law and Medicine, Vol. 21/3, 2014. This column examines the ideological thrust of commissions of audit and how they synergise to produce a national directive on the future of public health which could be challenged under the Constitution.
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Conference presentations and public lecturesCollateral Damage. Public Lecture on health services privatisation and the Northern Beaches Hospital, Mona Vale Memorial Hall, 14 March, 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnsz1Weq4iA Wake in Fright. Public Lecture University of Wollongong, 17 April, 2013.
Part 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTfbb4DV730 Part 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QbbGX0Pmw8 Part 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPSXXtKwb0o
I Just Can’t Get My Head Around This. Save Bulli ED Public Rally, 29 July 2012.
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