The Economic Society of Australia (WA) had the pleasure of co-hosting the 2024 Shann Memorial Lecture on 16 October 2024.  The lecture was delivered by Chris Richardson at the University of Western Australia and was titled “Australia: Why we are where we are...”.

The 8th Australian Gender Economics Workshop (#AGEW2025) is hosted by the University of Wollongong in partnership with the Women in Economics Network and is organised by Alfredo Paloyo. The workshop will take place on 6‒7 February 2025 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Wollongong is in Dharawal Country.

Poll 65

Panellists are unanimous in believing Australia’s housing market is in crisis.

Offered a choice of 14 measures identified by the Economic Society of Australia as likely to restrain prices for buyers and renters, none of the 49 leading economists polled picked: “do nothing, the market will determine appropriate prices”.

We are delighted that Professor Kenneth Clements of the UWA Business School was presented with the 2024 Distinguished Fellow Award by the Economic Society of Australia at the Annual Conference of Economists in Adelaide on 11 July.

Alison Preston, Professor in the Department of Economics at the UWA Business School and Vice President of the Economic Society of Australia (WA Branch), was awarded the prize for the Best Paper in Economic Papers for her article on “Financial Literacy and Self-Employment” co-authored with Robert E. Wright.

A number of prestigious awards were bestowed upon worthy economists at ACE24, held in Adelaide.  Read on to find out who won the 2024 ESA National Awards.

Poll 64

Panelists were asked to comment on two questions: 

Is the budget likely to achieve its aim of getting inflation back within the RBA target band by the end of this year and back to 2.75% by mid next year?

And

On May 14, the government delivered a budget designed, in the Treasurer's words, to "focus on fighting inflation in the near term and then growth in the medium term " - What grade would you give the budget, given that objective? A, B, C, D, E or F

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