Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
Dialogue Volume 31 Number 1/2012.
Retain? Sustain? Disdain?
Some natural resource challenges
April 11, 2012 Media release
Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research media release: $10 Million boost for Prime Minister’s Science Engineering and Innovation Council
ASSA Secretariat
A $10 million funding grant from the Gillard Government will ensure Australia’s four Learned Academies can undertake new research projects, under the direction of the Prime Minister’s Science Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) and the Chief Scientist.
April 11, 2012 Media release
Chief Scientist media release -$10 million investment in science advice
ASSA Secretariat
The capacity of the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) has been reinforced by a $10 million Government commitment to the new arrangements. The funding will support research and project work by the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACoLA).
April 4, 2012 Announcement
Tax and Social Security Reports
Policy and Advocacy Committee
In April 2012, Andrew Podger, Dennis Trewin and John Wanna released 3 policy papers. Reporting on an ASSA-partnered roundtable event, these reports examine Australia's tax and social security-transfers system. The papers address the 'principles for a coherent tax- social security system', 'personal income tax and financial assistance', 'social security pensions and benefits' and 'retirement incomes.' PDF copies are available on the ASSA website, and an Occasional Paper will be released shortly.
April 3, 2012 Announcement
Paul Bourke Lecture, 22 May 2012, Macquarie University
Much confusion about inclusion in Australia's largest education system Secretariat
Dr Linda Graham, ARC Discovery Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Macquarie University, and 2011 recipient of the Academy's Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research, will present the 2012 Paul Bourke lecture at 6pm on 22 May 2012 at Macquarie University (Theatre 1, Building Y3A). Dr Graham will report on the findings from a 3 year ARC Discovery Project to consider the impact of inclusion in the NSW government schooling sector. Free parking can be arranged on request.
April 3, 2012 Workshop publication
Report of ASSA funded workshop on Religion and social policy in Australia and neighbouring countries
Secretariat
A copy of the report on the above workshop, convened by Professor Peter Saunders and Dr Minako Sakai of the University of New South Wales, held in November 2011, has been added to the ASSA website. The report will appear in the next issue of Dialogue.
February 22, 2012 Academy Proceedings
ASSA Workshops Program 2011-12
Workshop on Australian women's NGOs and government Secretariat
The report of the workshop on Australian women's NGOs and government - an evolving relationship, has been added to the ASSA website.
February 9, 2012 Announcement
Inspiring Australia Grants open to social science researchers
Margaret Blood
On 16 January 2012 the Commonwealth Government announced a competitive grants program to support the Government’s Inspiring Australia strategy. Applications for grants close 4.00pm AEST on 29 February 2012. The Unlocking Australia's Potential grant round makes $5 million available across three categories for projects to be delivered between 2012 and 2014. It is intended to fund a collection of projects that provide a good mix of activities with a variety of approaches, audiences, locations and topics. The grant aims to provide a strengthened, cohesive and sustainable national program of activities. The guidelines for the grants program state that an objective of the program is to ‘ promote public appreciation not only of the role of the “enabling sciences” (physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics), but also of the role of engineering, and the social sciences and humanities. The term “science” in this document should be interpreted as embracing all these disciplines, as defined in the Inspiring Australia report) (p2 Guidelines).
February 9, 2012 Announcement
ASSA Workshops program 2012-13
Margaret Blood
Information on the workshops that were successful in gaining ASSA funding in 2012/13 has been added to the ASSA website.
February 9, 2012 Announcement
Keith Hancock Lecture - nominations open
Margaret Blood
Fellows are reminded that nominations for the Keith Hancock lecturer for 2012/13 are due 16 March 2012.
January 6, 2012 Submission
Submission: Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
ASSA Secretariat
With the assistance of the Policy and Advocacy Committee, ASSA recently contributed to the Federal Government's Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People. The Review is being chaired by Professor Larissa Behrendt FASSA for the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. To read more, the full text of the Academy's recommendations is available here.
December 22, 2011 Academy Proceedings
Videorecording of 2011 Fay Gale Lecture
Margaret Blood
A videorecording of the 2011 Fay Gale Lecture, presented by Assoc Professor Denise Doiron on the topic Trends in Income Inequality in Australia, is now available on the ASSA website. The lecture includes copies of powerpoint slides. Precis: After a decade of stable, even slightly improving income inequality, Australia suffered a sharp widening of its income distribution in the late 2000’s. Although this U-turn is not unique to Australia, the change has seemed more extreme with Australia’s rank in 30 OECD countries falling from 15 in 2004 to 24 in 2008 in terms of income equality. This lecture reviews these changes and the broad underlying causes. In particular, changes in income inequality are set against a robust labour market and a smoothly widening earnings distribution. The roles of women and men are discussed; in particular changes in female employment rates are related to the trends in income inequality. To view the lecture please go to http://www.assa.edu.au/programs/forums/fay_gale_lectures/2011.php
November 21, 2011 Announcement
3rd Sustainable Phosphorus Summit
ASSA
The Summit will bring together key international science, policy and industry stakeholders from different parts of the food production and consumption chain concerned about the role of phosphorus availability and accessibility in global food security, about protecting the environment, and about supporting rural and urban livelihoods.
Themes include:
- Sustainable food systems
- Global phosphate rock production and reserves
- Phosphorus use efficiency in mining, agriculture, food processing
- Phosphorus recovery and reuse
- Phosphorus pollution and waste
- Sustainable phosphorus strategies and global governance
Key notes and panelists:
We are delighted to announce some of our confirmed keynote speakers and panelists:
- Professor Paul J Crutzen, Winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Germany
- Professor Mateete Bekunda, Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
- Mr Chris Thornton, Coordinator, Global Phosphate Forum, France
- Ms Elizabeth Tilley, Water & Sanitation in Developing Countries, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland
- Ms Danielle Nierenberg, Nourishing the Planet, Worldwatch Institute, USA
- Mr Charles McElhone, General Manager - Policy, National Farmers’ Federation, Australia
- More speakers TBC
We still have several sponsorship opportunities available. If you would like to sponsor the Summit, please see the sponsorship prospectus details or contact:
Brooke Adams, ICMS Pty Ltd
Email: psummit3@globalpnetwork.net
Tel: +61 7 3844 1138.
Julia 2010: The caretaker election
2012. Marian Simms and John Wanna
This project is the latest in a series of post-election workshops and books that emerged from the (then) Political Science Department in the Faculty of Arts at The Australian National University (ANU), commencing with the 1996 election ...
Last modified: 28 February 2012.