Please join us to hear from a panel of housing policy experts, to discuss the current economic conditions facing Queensland’s housing market, the challenges buyers and renters are facing, and what the future might hold. The event will be catered with food and drink, so be sure to RSVP to secure a spot at this exciting event.

Event information

Registration from 5:30 pm

Panel commences at 6:00 pm

Networking from 7:00–8:00 pm

Meet the panellists:

Dr Cameron Murray, Australia's leading expert commentator on housing

Dr Cameron Murray, Australia's leading expert commentator on housing. For the past four years, Cameron was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Henry Halloran Trust at The University of Sydney. Before that, he got a PhD in Economics on the corruption which was been transformed into a book called Rigged: How networks of mates rip off everyday Australians, explaining how the game of grey corruption is played, how much it costs us, and what we can do about it. Cameron’s new book is The Great House Hijack: The hoaxes and myths keeping prices high for renters and buyers in Australia. He also runs his own think-tank, Fresh Economic Thinking, which provides independent and insightful takes on major economic debates. 

Dr Diaswati (Asti) Mardiasmo, Chief Economist of PRD Real Estate

As Chief Economist of PRD Real Estate (PRD), Dr Diaswati (Asti) Mardiasmo leads a nation-wide (Australia) research team providing high-quality property, housing, and market research to the PRD franchises and brings a multitude of expertise: economics, public policy, demographics, housing data, future projects and supply of housing, stakeholder engagement and management, and high-level data analysis. Dr Mardiasmo holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Law at QUT, specialising in public asset management and governance. Dr Mardiasmo is the industry co-lecturer and research supervisor for QUT’s Bachelor of Property Economics, within the School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business and Law. She was previously an industry partner within the Australian Federal Government’s Australian Research Council Linkage on Sustainable Housing. Diaswati was appointed by the Queensland State Government to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games Legacy Committee since 2022, as a housing economist specialist. Diaswati is a member of the Residential Committee 2023-2024 for the Property Council of Australia (for the 2nd term) and a member of the Reserve Bank of Australia Liaison Program. Diaswati was awarded the prestigious Migrant Leader of the Year award at the Women Changing the World Awards 2024. Dr Mardiasmo has provided expert property and real estate commentary at national and international seminars, as well as to various print, online, radio, and TV media.

Kaytlin Ezzy, Economist at Core Logic

Kaytlin is a key member within CoreLogic’s research team, she specialises in collating large and customised data sets, data visualisation and residential data reports. Kaytlin is particularly passionate about demystifying the mathematics behind economic theory and has a keen interest in macroeconomic policy and international relations. When she is not buried in data, she can be found debating the pros and cons of various government or trade policies. As part of her role, Kaytlin summarises and provides commentary on high frequency data-sets such as weekly auction trends, inventory levels and movements in housing values and authors CoreLogic's Australian Unit Market Report and Quarterly Rental Review. Kaytlin holds a degree in Commerce specialising in economics and econometric modelling and graduated with first class honours from Griffith University in 2018. She previously worked in the economic impact analysis and commercial development space before joining CoreLogic as a Data Analyst in 2020.

Shelley McCormack, co-owner/co-founder of Bull and Bear Economics

Shelley is a Director of Bull & Bear Economics and has over 15 years professional consulting experience.  Shelley has a keen interest in data and how the application of data and economic analysis techniques can deliver meaningful insights to decision making and policy formulation. Shelley has provided economic planning advice in relation to large scale mixed use developments within metropolitan areas to small scale residential subdivisions in rural and remote areas. Working across this range of contexts, Shelley has both depth and breadth of understanding of economic planning and property market issues. Shelley regularly applies her background in mathematics and statistics to analyse trends in a wide variety of public and private data sets. In addition to her data analysis and modelling skills, Shelley has led numerous major economics consulting projects for government and major corporates in the form of major project evaluations, economic impact assessments, strategic needs analysis and industry and economic strategy. Shelley also maintains a keen interest in social issues and analysis and brings a robust analytical approach to the assessment of community and social projects and policies.