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Equity in Sourcing Revenue Symposium
Equity in Sourcing Revenue:
The Effect on the Economy and the Community
Half-day Symposium 8:30am, Tuesday 2nd August,
2005
@ St Hilda's College College, College Crescent, Parkville
Click here
to download a registration
form (PDF)
Introduction
This symposium
aims to bring together socially concerned people who are
keen to identify taxation policies which cause hardship and who wish to
see the
incidence of homelessness and poverty reduced. The present method of
drawing in
revenue from any source - provided it does not produce too much of an
outcry -
often means that the poor are severely affected.
The purpose
of the symposium is to bring forward and discuss what
may be more equitable alternatives to the existing hotch potch of
revenue
sources.
Registration
for this event is $88 (inclusive of
GST, breakfast, morning tea and lunch)
Venue, Parking and Public Transport Information
This symposium will
be held at St Hilda's College. Click here
for venue information and parking/public transport options.
Program
Click here
to download the symposium agenda.
Speakers
and Session Titles include:
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How
Politics Gets in the Way; Why Our Tax Laws Aren't Fair and Simple
Tim Colebatch has been a
journalist all
his adult
life, the last 12 years as economics editor of The Age. He has worked
as a
foreign correspondent in Washington,
studied
in Italy, and has
degrees in
Arts and Commerce from Melbourne
University,
and in Asian
Studies from the ANU. Tim has won numerous awards for his reporting and
OpEd
columns on economics and foreign policy issues, including the Melbourne
Press
Club Quills award for best columnist in 2000. Now 56, he began as a
cadet on
The Age in 1971 and has reported widely since on state politics, the
environment, urban issues, Federal politics and world affairs before
specialising in the economy. Tim is married to Mary, and they live in Canberra with
their four
teenage children.
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Upside
Down and Back to Front: Perverse Impacts of the Taxation System
Julian
Disney is
Director of the Social
Justice
Project at the University
of New South Wales.
He is
also Director of the independent Families on the Edge Project which
seeks to
improve housing and transport options for low-income families,
especially on
urban fringes, and Convenor of the Neighbours Program which seeks to
strengthen
links between community sector leaders in Australia and neighbouring
countries. Julian Disney is a former President of the Australian
Council of
Social Service (ACOSS) and World President of the International Council
on
Social Welfare (ICSW) which represents social welfare organisations in
more
than eighty countries.
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A
Comparison of Alternate Tax Bases
John Freebairn is
Director of the
Melbourne
Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne.
He holds a PhD from the University
of California (Davis).
Prior to this position, John worked closely with the Melbourne
Institute as
both an Adjunct Professor and a member of the Advisory Board. John's
research
interests have included various aspects of applied economic and social
research. He has a particular interest in the analysis of policy
options for
taxation reform, labour markets (particularly unemployment),
infrastructure
pricing and investment, and microeconomic reform. Professor Freebairn
is the
author of numerous articles in international and Australian economics
journals
and book chapters, and he has co-authored and edited a number of books.
Download John's notes here.
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Collapsing
Economies and National Resource Rents
Bryan Kavanagh is director of
the Land
Values
Research Group, a privately funded body which has researched Australia's
natural resource rents
(under only two directors) since 1943. He is also a director of
the
Melbourne-based real estate valuation firm, Westlink Consulting.
Amongst
a number of papers produced for the Land Values Research Group, Mr
Kavanagh's
"Case for a Federal Charge on Land Values" was published recently in
his
professional magazine The Australian
Property Journal.
Download Bryan's notes here (and for a related article, click here).
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Chairperson
Brian Howe is a Professorial
Associate in the Centre. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
(1991-95), a member of the Federal Cabinet (1984-96) and held a range
of Ministerial portfolios in the fields of Defence, Social Security,
Health, Housing and Community Services. His administration of these
portfolios was distinguished by a number of major policy initiatives,
particularly in relation to employment and welfare. He teaches in the
Centre's post-graduate program, and is conducting research into
sustainable social policy, which examines the conflicting priorities
between social and economic policy. His other main research interest is
the relationship between religion, ethics and public policy. He is
writing a book on the future of work. He is a Research Fellow in the
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton, and in 1998 was Frederick H. Schultz
Class of 1951 Professor there.
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