Past Events
ESA/WEN End of Year Sundowner
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Nov 26, 2025, 5:30 pm
We welcome members and non-members to join us for our end of year sundowner. Canapés will be served and drinks can be purchased at the bar.
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View...Economics on the Swan with Danielle Wood
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Oct 23, 2025, 7:30 am
The Economic Society of Australia (WA) is hosting a breakfast presentation in its Economics on the Swan series on Thursday 23 October 2025. The speaker is Danielle Wood, Chair of the Productivity Commission, and her topic is “Australia’s productivity challenge”.
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View...WA Women in Economics Network (WEN) - Wine and Cheese Event with Danielle Wood
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Monday Oct 20, 2025, 5:00 pm
The WA Women in Economics Network (WEN) invites ESA/WEN members to a wine and cheese event with Danielle Wood, Chair of the Productivity Commission. This is an informal boardroom style event where we will hear from Danielle about her career and key insights she can offer to fellow economists over a glass of wine. WEN members will also have an opportunity to ask questions regarding her career and juggling work-life balance.
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View...Economics on the Swan with Professor Robert Breunig
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Friday Oct 3, 2025, 7:30 am
The Economic Society of Australia (WA) is hosting a breakfast presentation in its Economics on the Swan series on 3 October 2025. The speaker is Professor Robert Breunig, and his topic is “Reflections on the Economic Reform Roundtable and prospects for tax reform”.
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View...A Future for Private Health? - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Oct 1, 2025, 12:00 pm
Australia’s private health sector is confronting a period of significant challenge, marked by rising operational costs, persistent workforce shortages, stagnant demand, and increasing out-of-pocket expenses for consumers. These pressures have resulted in declining profitability, hospital closures, adversarial insurer-provider relationships, and a lack of transparency, with confidence further undermined by the collapse of Healthscope. There are growing concerns that instability in the private sector will increase pressure on Australia’s already overburdened public system.
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View...FREEDOM TO CHOOSE CONFERENCE 2025
Event Type: Workshops/Conferences
Date: Tuesday Sep 23, 2025, 9:00 am
This year’s Freedom to Choose (FTC) conference is the fifteenth in a sequence of annual one day conferences devoted to exploring the effectiveness of free-market policies. FTC is supported by the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation and hosted by the University of Notre Dame Australia.
View...Free Workshop on Excel Modelling & Policy Costing Models
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Sep 11, 2025, 6:00 pm
The WA Young Economists Network (WA YEN) have proudly organised a free Workshop which will all be delivered by Zac Muscat (Curtin University PhD Candidate) on the evening of Thursday, September 11th from 6pm to 8:30pm in Computer Lab 402.231 within Building 402 at the Curtin University Bentley Campus.
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View...Shann Memorial Lecture
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Sep 3, 2025, 4:00 pm
In memory of Edward Shann, we celebrate the 60th Shann Memorial Lecture, one of Australia's longest-running public lectures on economic policy.
View...2025 Annual Dinner
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Aug 27, 2025, 6:30 pm
You are cordially invited to attend the Economic Society of Australia (WA Branch) Dinner after the AGM on Wednesday 27th August 2025 at The University Club, University of Western Australia
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View...2025 Annual General Meeting
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Aug 27, 2025, 5:30 pm
You are cordially invited to attend the Economic Society of Australia (WA Branch) Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 27th August 2025 at The University Club, University of Western Australia
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View...In Conversation with Rod Maddock - Young Economist Event - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday Aug 26, 2025, 11:30 am
The Productivity Commission Seminar Team is organising an event which may be of interest to young economists, who are invited to join this session via Teams.
Rod Maddock is one of very few economists who has worked across major corporates, government, universities, and lobbyists. He has pursued economics from econometrics to macroeconomics, and then to economic history, economic development, regulatory economics, public policy, finance, and regional planning.
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View...The Future of Money - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Aug 20, 2025, 12:00 pm
Rapid changes in technology and in the preferences of firms and households are features of the Australian economy, nowhere else more so than in the payments system. How are central banks, including the RBA, thinking about the future of money, both digital and physical cash? What could be the role of central bank digital currencies, stablecoins and tokenised bank deposits in supporting innovation, and what are the financial stability risks? And how could the demand for physical cash evolve in the future?
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View...Price Discovery in Auctions: how different types of auctions aggregate dispersed information - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday Jun 17, 2025, 6:00 pm
As part of the Eminent Speaker Series, the Economic Society of Australia Victoria Branch join with Melbourne Business School in extending a warm invitation to this engaging seminar by Professor Songzi Du on price discovery in auctions.
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View...FREE WORKSHOP ON CGE MODELLING
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2025, 6:00 pm
The WA Young Economists Network (WA YEN) have organised a free workshop which will be delivered by Zac Muscat (Curtin University PhD Candidate) on the evening of Tuesday, May 13th from 6pm to 8:30pm in Computer Lab 402.231 within Building 402 at the Curtin University Bentley Campus.
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View...Panel Discussion - The Impact of Trump's Tariffs - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Apr 24, 2025, 12:00 pm
The tariffs announced on April 2nd have disrupted many firms' strategies and thrown financial markets into chaos. Further announcements have increased tariffs on China and reduced other tariffs pending negotiations. What will be the impact of greater uncertainty and volatility on world trade, business investment in Australia, the US and China and other macroeconomic variables?
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View...Economic and budgetary issues - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Friday Apr 11, 2025, 4:00 pm
The John Curtin Institute of Public Policy is hosting a webinar at 4pm this Friday 11 April with well-known economic commentator Saul Eslake on “economic and budgetary issues which we should be talking about during the election campaign – but probably won’t be”. Registration is free, and closes at 10am on Friday.
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.
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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?
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View...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.
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View...Economics on the Swan with Andrew Leigh
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday Mar 11, 2025, 7:30 am
The Economic Society of Australia (WA Branch) is delighted to welcome The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP as the keynote speaker for the first 2025 event in its Economics on the Swan series.
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View...Australia's Energy Future: Where Are We Headed? - ONLINE ONLY
Date: Thursday Feb 27, 2025, 12:00 pm
Seminar Series on Energy Transition - Session Two
The Australian electricity sector is undergoing a transformation. Our energy demand is growing, and critical policy and investment decisions are needed to ensure our energy future is reliable, sustainable and affordable. With the 2025 federal election on the horizon, decisions made now will shape the nation’s economy, infrastructure and workforce for decades to come. They will also have budgetary outcomes for successive governments to come.
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View...POSTPONED Electricity Price Trends and Energy Wallet - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Feb 20, 2025, 12:00 pm
This event is postponed - the new date will be advised as soon as possible
Seminar Series on Energy Transition - Session One
The energy transition is unfolding rapidly. The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has recently published a 10-year outlook for residential electricity prices, with a focus on projecting how each cost component might change over the next decade. Beyond just examining electricity costs, the analysis also considers how households' total energy costs (or their 'energy wallet’) will change as they electrify transportation, heating and cooking, transitioning from other fuel sources to electricity.
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View...Working from Home and the Gender Wage Gap, Alison Preston, UWA - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Feb 12, 2025, 11:00 am
Join us for this webinar during which Alison Preston examines the impact of working at home on the wages of men and women using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey.
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View...AGEW 2025
Date: Thursday Feb 6, 2025, 12:00 am
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.
View...ESA / WEN end of year sundowner
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday Dec 3, 2024, 5:30 pm
We welcome members and non-members of all genders to join us for our end of year sundowner. Canapés will be served and drinks can be purchased at the bar.
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