Freebairn Public Lecture Series

2019       
Watching the Invisibles, Luci Ellis, Assistant Governor (Economic), Reserve Bank of Australia

2018       
Creating wealth: how economies grow, Professor Beth Webster, Swinburne University of Technology

2017      
Fiscal outcomes in a time of increasing political spin and unanticipated economic change, Professor Bob Gregory Emeritus Professor, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University

2016      
Markets, monopolies and moguls: the relationship between inequality and competition, Dr Andrew Leigh MP, Federal Member for Fraser ACT

2015      
Economic Policy for the 21st century, Professor John Quiggin, Australian Laureate Fellow in Economics at the University of Queensland

2014      
Resolving energy policy dilemmas in an age of carbon restraints, Professor Ross Garnaut AO, Professorial Fellow in Economics at the University of Melbourne

2013      
'Governing the ungovernable: The market, technology and you', Professor Stephen King, Monash University

Prior to 2013, this lecture was called the Public Policy Lecture:

2012
Tax Reform with a Larger GST, Professor John Freebairn, University of Melbourne

2011
'What have we learned from the Global Financial Crisis', Professor John Quiggin, Australian Laureate Fellow in Economics at the University of Queensland

2010
'Designing Realistic Climate Policy', Professor Warwick McKibbin, Australian National University