8 events Coming up
22 Mar 2012
Boring but Safe: An Institutional Analysis of Why the Big Australian Banks Survived the Global Financial Meltdown
The Australian financial system emerged largely unscathed from the 2007/8 financial crisis. Why? What was so different about Australia and what lessons can be learnt from the Australian experience in terms of broader debates about the causes of th...
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Seminar/Forum14 Jun 2012
Law vs Desire: Will Force or Obedience Save the Planet (From Climate Change)?
In the midst of the current climate crisis something needs to change. That something is us. How to produce the kind of behavioural change required in populations to save the planet may be a question of law, a question of desire or even a question...
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Free Public Lecture23 Jul 2012
Laggard to Leader
The University of Melbourne is hosting a public lecture to investigate the new report by Beyond Zero Emissions that addresses Australia's leadership on climate change. The report looks at the extent of Australia’s influence of global emissions an...
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Free Public Lecture09 Aug 2012
The World in Balance Sheet Recession: What Post-2008 US, Europe and China can learn from Japan 1990-2005
There is considerable confusion in policy circles as to how to respond to the postGFC recession. Drawing parallels with the Japanese economic crisis of the 1990s, Richard C. Koo, senior advisor to leading fiscal bodies in both the US and Japan, wi...
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Free Public Lecture02 Oct 2012
Public Policy Lecture - Tax Reform with a Larger GST
Professor Freebairn will discuss ways of making Australia’s taxation system more efficient with reforms which broaden the GST tax base and increase the GST rate. A larger GST could replace inefficient state stamp duties and fund a lower income tax...
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Free Public Lecture27 Nov 2012
Regional Growth Patterns: Evidence from the latest Census
In this public seminar, Grattan CEO John Daley and Urbis Director Michael Barlow discuss patterns in Australian regional growth as revealed in the 2011 Census, and why government policy is failing to keep up with the rapid growth in coastal and ca...
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Seminar/Forum06 May 2013
What should be Australia's emissions reduction target?
Late April, the Climate Change Authority will release an Issues Paper as part of its first review of the caps and targets that Australia should adopt for 2020 and toward its longterm emission reduction goal. The recommendations of this review will...
26 Jun 2013
The Truth about Cannabis Use
Despite its illegality, most of the Australian population is exposed to cannabis use at some stage of our lives. There is so much media hype about this drug that it is difficult to tell accuracy from allegory, exactitude from exaggeration. In thi...