Memories Lost & Found: A Recession We Have To Have & What Then?

17 April 2008

Professor R.G. Gregory

The talk looks back over the period of the Hawke, Keating and Howard governments and discusses what has been learned and what has been forgotten. It offers conjectures on likely economic outcomes during the first term of the Rudd government.

Issues canvassed include monetary policy, inflation, labour market reforms and their outcomes and the changing overlap between the labour market and the welfare system.

Broad Topics: Arts and Social Sciences

Sub-topics: Economics, Policy & Political Science

Areas: University

Professor R.G. Gregory is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Through 1990 to 1993 he was principal consultant in a series of Aged Care Reviews for the Department of Community Services and Health. In 1998, he was a member of the committee that recommended the introduction of student income contingent loans, collected by the Tax Office. The scheme has been adopted by a number of other countries in addition to Australia. He was a member of the Committee on Employment Opportunities which prepared a Discussion Paper that acted as a precursor to the Government's 1994 Working Nation. He was also a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1985–1995.

Professor Gregory is an elected fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (1979). In 1996 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal. He has been President of the Economic Society of Australia and has been awarded the Economic Society Medal.

Part of the Blake Dawson-ANU Public Lecture Series