2025 WEN QLD Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Jun 11, 2025, 6:00 pm

The 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Women in Economics Network (WEN) Queensland branch will be held on Wednesday 11^th June 2025 at 6:00pm at Pig’N’Whistle Riverside, Churchill Room, 123 Eagle St, Qld, 4001, Brisbane, AU 4000

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2025 Young Economist QLD Annual General Meeting (AGM) - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Friday Jun 6, 2025, 8:00 am

The Annual General Meeting of the Young Economists will be held as a teams meeting on 10 June commencing at 8.00 am. A link to join the meeting is provided in AGM documents.

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Business lunch with Sarah Hunter, Chief Economist, RBA

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Tuesday Jun 3, 2025, 11:45 am

Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Chief Economist and Assistant Governor (Economic) Sarah Hunter will address ESA QLD on Australia's economic outlook, covering domestic and international issues, including the impact of tariffs. Join us at the Brisbane Marriott Hotel to network with Brisbane’s business community, enjoy a 2 course lunch including beverages, all while hearing from the RBA Chief Economist.

Thanks to Morgans for their ongoing support of business lunches with RBA senior officials. Morgans Chief Economist Michael Knox will introduce Sarah and lead the Q&A following Sarah's address. 

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WEN-AARES Mini-Symposium

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday May 29, 2025, 3:30 pm

We would like to invite you to a mini-symposium that is organised as a collaboration between WEN QLD and the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES).

It will showcase a fine selection of research presented at the AARES 2025 conference.

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LinkedUP! May

Event Type: WEN Event

Date: Thursday May 15, 2025, 5:30 pm

It’s time for another LinkedUP! The WEN Queensland branch invites you to join us for an informal networking evening. Come along to connect or reconnect with old and new WEN members.

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Panel Discussion - The Impact of Trump's Tariffs - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Apr 24, 2025, 12:00 pm

From: Central Council

The tariffs announced on April 2^nd have disrupted many firms' strategies and thrown financial markets into chaos. Further announcements have increased tariffs on China and reduced other tariffs pending negotiations. What will be the impact of greater uncertainty and volatility on world trade, business investment in Australia, the US and China and other macroeconomic variables?

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Business lunch with The Honourable David Janetzki MP, Treasurer, Minister for Energy and Minister for Home Ownership

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Apr 9, 2025, 11:45 am

In conjunction with the McKell Institute and Suncorp, ESA QLD's first business lunch for 2025 will feature an address by The Honourable David Janetzki MP, Treasurer, Minister for Energy and Minister for Home Ownership. With his wide-ranging portfolios, expect to hear some great insights from the Treasurer on the outlook for the economy, the budget, energy and housing in Queensland.

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Where Have All the Economics Students Gone - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Tuesday Apr 8, 2025, 12:00 pm

From: Central Council

The size and diversity of the economics student population has declined sharply since the early 1990s, raising concerns about economic literacy in society and the long-term health of the economics discipline. Interest in studying economics at university is low, even for those who studied economics in Year 12.

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What Drives Bond Yields - EXCLUSIVE Members webinar - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Apr 3, 2025, 12:30 pm

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Globalization and the Environment - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Apr 3, 2025, 12:00 pm

From: Central Council

For many countries, the race to net zero interacts in complicated ways with trade policy. There has long been research on how globalisation and international economic policy affect the environment: How do tariffs affect greenhouse gas emissions? Does globalisation cause a “race to the bottom” in environmental policy?

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PANEL: Housing Affordability and Housing Policy: Where to Next? - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Friday Mar 21, 2025, 12:00 pm

From: Central Council

Australia is in the grips of a housing crisis, driven by rising costs in construction, the adjustment to working-from-home, and other factors. Rental affordability has worsened in the last few years, and rental affordability had been growing worse for the bottom quintile of earners over the last decade. 

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Young Economists Social Event at Oche Brisbane

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Mar 20, 2025, 6:00 pm

Come join your fellow Young Economists for a few rounds of darts at Oche. For $20, you’ll get two hours of gaming, food, and drinks.  

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WEN Queensland: International Women’s Day Event

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Mar 19, 2025, 5:30 pm

The Women in Economics Network (WEN) is proudly part of the worldwide movement to achieve gender equality that we celebrate on International Women’s Day. 

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Putting Economics into the Circular Economy (Webinar) - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Mar 5, 2025, 12:30 pm

Craig Lawrence of Lytton Advisory will share his expertise on the circular economy, particularly the economics of waste and recycling, at this exclusive members' webinar on Wednesday 5 March at 12.30 pm.

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Australia's Energy Future: Where Are We Headed? - ONLINE ONLY

Date: Thursday Feb 27, 2025, 12:00 pm

From: Central Council

Seminar Series on Energy Transition - Session Two

The Australian electricity sector is undergoing a transformation. Our energy demand is growing, and critical policy and investment decisions are needed to ensure our energy future is reliable, sustainable and affordable. With the 2025 federal election on the horizon, decisions made now will shape the nation’s economy, infrastructure and workforce for decades to come. They will also have budgetary outcomes for successive governments to come.

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Young Economist – Economic Security Panel Discussion – The effects of geopolitics on economic policymaking in Australia

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Feb 20, 2025, 5:30 pm

Please join us to hear from a panel of experts to discuss how the geopolitical landscape is impacting economics and trade, creating challenges and opportunities for both policymakers and businesses. The event will be catered with light refreshments, so be sure to RSVP to secure a spot at this exciting event.

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POSTPONED Electricity Price Trends and Energy Wallet - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Feb 20, 2025, 12:00 pm

From: Central Council

This event is postponed - the new date will be advised as soon as possible

Seminar Series on Energy Transition - Session One

The energy transition is unfolding rapidly. The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has recently published a 10-year outlook for residential electricity prices, with a focus on projecting how each cost component might change over the next decade. Beyond just examining electricity costs, the analysis also considers how households' total energy costs (or their 'energy wallet’) will change as they electrify transportation, heating and cooking, transitioning from other fuel sources to electricity.

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Women in Economics (WEN) - AARES Breakfast

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Feb 13, 2025, 7:00 am

The WEN-AARES Breakfast offers a space for WEN Qld local members to connect with each other and to meet with women economists attending the AARES conference over a relaxing informal breakfast. This joint event is a great opportunity to expand your networks and mix with conference delegates from all over Australia and the world.

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Working from Home and the Gender Wage Gap, Alison Preston, UWA - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Feb 12, 2025, 11:00 am

From: Central Council

Join us for this webinar during which Alison Preston examines the impact of working at home on the wages of men and women using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. 

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AGEW 2025

Date: Thursday Feb 6, 2025, 12:00 am

From: Central Council

The 8th Australian Gender Economics Workshop (#AGEW2025) is hosted by the University of Wollongong in partnership with the Women in Economics Network and is organised by Alfredo Paloyo. The workshop will take place on 6‒7 February 2025 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Wollongong is in Dharawal Country.

Centenary Celebration of ESA Queensland

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Dec 12, 2024, 5:30 pm

THE ECONOMIC SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA TURNS 100

Join us for our Centenary Celebration of ESA Queensland with a dinner featuring a intergenerational panel of QLD ‘state of origin’ economists

Karen Chester, Peter Harris AO & Associate Professor Leonora Risse

ESA QLD life member Jon Stanford recently unearthed that November 2024 is the 100^th anniversary of the establishment of Australia’s very first ESA branch.  And yes, it had to be in Queensland.   

ESA Members and your guests are invited to our Centenary Celebration Dinner for the Economics Society of Australia (QLD).

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Green Innovation and Climate Policies, David Hémous - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Monday Dec 2, 2024, 7:00 pm

From: Central Council

Climate change already has a negative impact on the environment and our societies, and this impact will get worse over the course of this century.

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End of Year – Young Economists Social Bowls

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Saturday Nov 30, 2024, 1:00 pm

Come celebrate the end of 2024 with your fellow Young Economists for a few rounds of bowls at New Farm Bowls Club! For only $10, you’ll get two hours of bowls, food and one drink per person.  

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Eminent Speaker Series - Prof. Dr. Martin Peitz, University of Mannheim

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Monday Nov 18, 2024, 12:00 pm

From: Central Council

Industrial policy and competition policy

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Women in Economics Network AGM - ONLINE ONLY

Date: Friday Nov 15, 2024, 12:00 pm

From: Central Council

The National WEN Committee will hold its AGM on 15 November 2024 from 12.00pm-1.30pm (AEDT) via Zoom, and invites all WEN Members to register via the link below. The meeting is an opportunity to celebrate another busy year across WEN Branches and nationally, and we are excited that the Hon Allegra Spender MP will join us to provide her insights on the economic challenges facing Australia.