Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

2010 Annual Symposium

Tuesday, 9 November 2010

2010 Annual Symposium Program

 

09:00 - 09:10 President's welcome and Symposium opening
09:00 Barry McGaw Presidents welcome
09:05 Michael Bittman Symposium opening
09:10 - 10:30 Australia and worldwide economic cycles
09:10 Janet McCalman Global economic cycles and Australian families and children.
09:40 Steve Keen Did Australia dodge the bullet or is there a toxic housing bubble?
10:05 John Buchanan and Gillian Whitehouse Exchange of views: Which parents are the most vulnerable in the labour market? Industries, occupations and claimant status.
10:30 - 11:00 Morning tea
11:00 - 12:30 Economic downturns, job quality and family life in Australia
11:00 Peter Saunders Assessing the impact of the GFC on Attitudes to Inequality and the Experience of Social Disadvantage.
11:30 Jan Nicholson and Lyndall Strazdins Parents' job quality, parenting and children's emotional development.
12:00 Duncan Ironmonger and Deborah Brennan Exchange of views: The relationship between cycles in the market and non-market economy especially in child care.
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Economic downturns, health and welfare.
14:00 Gavin Mooney Economic downturns and public health.
14:30 Sven Silburn Indigenous Australians' health and wellbeing: what matters more, the GFC or the Intervention?
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon tea
15:30 Panel: Carol Johnson and Stuart Macintyre
The Panel will engage the audience in discussing the likely political and social ramifications of the GFC
16:30 - 17:30 President's Drinks at the Dome
ASSA President Barry McGaw invites the assembled to drinks and canapés.
17:30 - 18:30 Cunningham Lecture
Ross Garnaut AO - What if mainstream science is right? The rout of knowledge and analysis in Australian climate change policy

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  • It's currently 9:12 pm on Thursday, May 17, in Canberra.

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