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Economics on the Swan
The ESAWA hosted a successful breakfast on 11 March 2025 with the first in a new series of events titled Economics on the Swan. The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP was keynote speaker and addressed the topic "Why Competition Reform Is More Fun Than It Looks – and More Significant Than You Thought".
ACE 2025
Call For Abstracts Now Open - Closing 1 April
ACE 2025 will provide a forum that allows us to discuss experiences, and review concepts and ideas. The Organising Committee will be seeking to create a program that addresses a spread of issues and professional experiences that attract a broad discipline of attendees. We welcome you to submit an abstract for inclusion into the program.
Trump's impact on the Australian Economy
Poll 66
Top economists say Trump’s policies will hit Australian economic growth and push up inflation and interest rates in the US.
Responses (38)Shann Memorial Lecture
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...”.
AGEW 2025
The 8th Australian Gender Economics Workshop (#AGEW2025) was hosted by the University of Wollongong in partnership with the Women in Economics Network and was organised by Alfredo Paloyo. The workshop took place on 6‒7 February 2025 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Wollongong is in Dharawal Country.
Housing Reform
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”.
Responses (967)Events
PANEL: Housing Affordability and Housing Policy: Where to Next? - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Friday Mar 21, 2025, 12:00 pm
Australia is in the grips of a housing crisis, driven by rising costs in construction, the adjustment to working-from-home, and other factors. Rental affordability has worsened in the last few years, and rental affordability had been growing worse for the bottom quintile of earners over the last decade.
View...Globalization and the Environment - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Apr 3, 2025, 12:00 pm
For many countries, the race to net zero interacts in complicated ways with trade policy. There has long been research on how globalisation and international economic policy affect the environment: How do tariffs affect greenhouse gas emissions? Does globalisation cause a “race to the bottom” in environmental policy?
View...Where Have All the Economics Students Gone - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday Apr 8, 2025, 12:00 pm
The size and diversity of the economics student population has declined sharply since the early 1990s, raising concerns about economic literacy in society and the long-term health of the economics discipline. Interest in studying economics at university is low, even for those who studied economics in Year 12.
View...Welcome
Welcome to the WA Branch of the Economic Society of Australia.
In Western Australia we are active in bringing together economists in academia, government bodies, and industry to enable networking and the exchange of knowledge and ideas.
