Intergen+10: Program
Program and Overview
The Melbourne Institute at the University of Melbourne hosted a one-day workshop at the Shine Dome in Canberra on Friday 11 May 2012 to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Treasury's first Intergenerational Report. The Intergenerational Report has had an important role in shaping the public discourse and policy debate on population ageing in Australia.The 10th anniversary of its release is a fortuitous moment to reflect on its predictions and to consider the road going forward.
The Australian Economic Review will also be producing a Forum in their forthcoming edition, which will feature papers from the workshop.
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Friday 11 May 2012 |
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| 8.15am | Registration |
| 8.45am | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 9.00 - 10.45am | Session 1 |
| Chair | Mr Tony Cole, Business Leader for Investment Consulting, Investment Consulting, Mercer (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Speakers | Dr David Gruen, Executive Director, Macroeconomic Group, Department of the Treasury A Decade of Intergenerational Reports |
Professor Adrian Pagan, Professor of Economics, School of Economics, The University of Sydney Some Thoughts on the IGR Framework |
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Professor Peter McDonald, Director, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, The Australian National University The Population Dimension in the Intergenerational Reports |
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| 10.45 - 11.15am | Morning Tea |
| 11.15am - 12.25pm | Session 2 |
| Chair | Mr Philip Noonan, Director General, IP Australia [Replaced by Ms Robyn Foster, General Manager, Trade Marks and Designs Group, IP Australia] |
| Speakers | Professor Beth Webster, Professorial Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute, and Director, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, The University of Melbourne
INTERGEN+10: What about Productivity? |
Mr Mark Cully, Chief Economist, Department of Immigration and Citizenship More than additions to population: the economic and fiscal impacts of immigration |
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| 12.25 - 1.25pm | Lunch |
| 1.25 - 3.05pm | Session 3 |
| Chair | Professor David Cullen, Principal Adviser, Ageing and Aged Care Division, Department of Health and Ageing |
| Speakers | Dr Ralph Lattimore, Assistant Commissioner, Productivity Commission The economic effects of ageing with an emphasis on the implications of productivity |
Professor Phillip Clarke, Professor of Health Economics, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne The price is wrong! : Long-term trends in pharmacuetcial expenditure and the policy response since the first Intergenerational Report |
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Professor Henry Ergas, Senior Economic Adviser, Deloitte Economics and Professor of Infrastructure Economics, SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong Providing and Funding Aged Care |
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| 3.05 - 3.35pm | Afternoon Tea |
| 3.35 - 4.10pm | Session 4 |
| Chair | Professor Anthony Scott, Professorial Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute |
| Speaker | Professor John Piggott, Australian Professorial Fellow and UNSW Scientia Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research, The University of New South Wales Long-term Fiscal Projections and the Australian Retirement Income System |
| 4.10 - 5.00pm | Panel |
| Chair | Mr Andrew Whitecross, Branch Manager, Family Payments Branch, Department of Families, House, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs |
| 5.00pm | Close |