Archives: Before 2005
Is the Australian property market in ‘bubble trouble’?
Housing | 14th November 2003Presentation to ANZ Queensland customers, Brisbane, 14th November 2003
Education and the Economy
Education | 15th September 2003Address to the Associations of School Bursars and Administrators 2003 Annual Conference, 15th September 2003
Globalization: Keeping the Gains
Globalization | 17th August 2003Presentation to a series of workshops arranged by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Trade Advocacy and Outreach Section, 2003
The Gains and Losses from Globalization
Globalization | 13th August 2003Address to the 14th International Farm Management Congress – Burswood Resort, Perth, 13th August 2003
Globalization, Economic Policy and Democracy
Globalization, Publications | 3rd August 2001A review of ‘Elect the Ambassador! – Building Democracy in a Globalized World’ by Duncan Kerr MP, and ‘For the People: Reclaiming our Government – Labor Essays 2001’, by Dennis Glover and Glen Patmore. Published in the Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 36, No. 3, August 2001
On the importance which Australians attach to sport
Australian Society and Politics, Publications | 18th March 2001In March 2001, I gave a talk to the Melbourne Media Club in which, as a final observation after talking at some length about a range of topical economic issues, and having been enjoined by the hosts to be ‘provocative’, I drew a link between the record low to which the Australian dollar was then […]
The Drivers of Globalization
Globalization | 20th November 2000Presentation to a Regional Defence Seminar hosted by the Australian Department of Defence, 20th November 2000
Globalization – Unprecendented? Inevitable? Irreversible? Beneficial?
Globalization | 30th August 2000Address to the 12th Rado Executive Luncheon, 30th August 2000
Progress in Korean Economic Reform
Asian Economies | 1st May 2000Address to a Korea-Australia Economic and Business Seminar Sponsored by Asialink and the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Melbourne, 1st May 2000
Japan’s Economic Challenge and the Implications for Australia
Asian Economies | 11th August 1998Address to the Queensland-Japan Chamber of Commerce, Brisbane, 11th August 1998
Address to the Education Foundation’s ‘Awards in Education’
Education | 19th November 1997Address to the Education Foundation’s ‘Awards in Education’ dinner, Melbourne, 19th November 1997
The Nixon Report – What’s Next
Tasmania | 25th August 1997Address to the University of Tasmania’s ‘Tasmania 2010 Forum’, 25th August 1997
ANZ’s submission to the Commonwealth-State Inquiry into the Tasmanian Economy (the Nixon Inquiry)
Tasmania | 15th February 1997My first substantial piece of writing about Tasmania’s economic problems, written on behalf of my then employer ANZ Bank to a Commonwealth-State Inquiry into the Tasmanian Economy headed by Peter Nixon, a former National Party MP and senior minister in the federal government of Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.