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Evaluating Policy Impact: Working Out What Works
Social workers in schools always boost student outcomes. Drug offenders shouldn’t be treated differently. Malaria bed nets are more likely to be used if people pay for them.
Speech - Kingsley Laffer Memorial Lecture, the University of Sydney
Subjects: Workplace relations, closing loopholes in the Fair Work Act, Secure Jobs, Better Pay, revitalising enterprise bargaining, Hawke/Keating reforms, family and domestic violence leave.
Speech - Building community and building evidence: 15 years of the Centre for Social Impact, Sydney
We are here tonight to pay tribute to the Centre for Social Impact for its research and education over 15 years. The Beatles might be the greatest collaboration of all time, yet the Centre has now…
Speech - World Skills Australia National Championship Launch, Melbourne
Over the next few days, 470 young Australians will compete to be named our best tradespeople, apprentices, and trainees. Competitors will compete across 55 skills – from carpentry, and plumbing to…
Data and Evaluation: A Match Made in Policy Heaven
I acknowledge the Ngunnawal people as traditional custodians of the ACT and recognise any other people or families with connection to the lands and region.
Speech - National Skills Week Launch
CANBERRA THURSDAY, 10 AUGUST 2023 *** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY ***
Speech - CoAct Conference, Connect Up 2023, Surfers Paradise
In 1944 and 1945, as war raged in the Pacific, HC (Nugget) Coombs and a team of fellow economists in the Ministry of Post-War Reconstruction drafted a White Paper on Full Employment. Commissioned by…
Speech - The Sydney Institute
Subjects: Workplace relations reforms, standing up for casual workers, fear campaigns
G20 Labour and Employment Ministers Meeting Intervention
Thank you, Chair. On behalf of the Australian Government I thank the Indian G20 Presidency for organising this important global dialogue, and thank the Honourable Prime Minister Modi and the Minister…
International Labour Organization - Plenary Address, Advancing Social Justice
Distinguished representatives from Governments, Workers and Employers groups from around the world.
Speech - NECA electrotech industry lunch
(Check against delivery) Thank you to the National Electrical and Communications Association for inviting me to speak.
Labour Day March - Brisbane
Subjects: Family and domestic violence leave, legal pay rate, Queensland union movement, workplace relations reform.