Speeches

Professor Deborah Cobb-Clark's Inaugural Public Lecture

Professor Deborah Cobb-Clark delivered her Inaugural Public Lecture, Disadvantage across the Generations: What Do We Know about Social and Economic Mobility in Australia? on 22 July 2010 at the University of Melbourne. Professor Cobb-Clarks lecture addressed findings about the extent of social and economic mobility in Australia; the pathways through which social and economic disadvantage is passed from one generation to the next; and the challenges for policy makers and researchers.

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The New Australian Resource Rent Tax

Professor Ross Garnaut AO, Vice-Chancellors Fellow and Professorial Research Fellow, gave this lecture at the University of Melbourne on 20 May 2010. Professor Garnaut discusses the proposed Resources Super Profits Tax as a form of mineral rent taxation, the transitional issues, and analyses its interaction with other policy issues in the resource sector including Climate Change and carbon pricing, and the two-speed economy.

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China as a Great Power: Some Implications for Australia

Professor Ross Garnaut AO, Vice-Chancellors Fellow and Professorial Research Fellow, spoke to the Australia China Business Council (ACBC), Victoria Division on Thursday 13 May. The ACBC is a business organisation dedicated to promoting business and trade with the Peoples Republic of China. The address, China as a Great Power: some Implications for Australia was presented at the RACV Club in Melbourne.

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