Tasmania
I did most of my education in Tasmania and, after spending almost 34 years on what Tasmanians call ‘the mainland’, returned to Tasmania in December 2014. Both while I was living away, and since returning, I’ve maintained a keen interest in the progress (or, at times, lack of it) of Australia’s smallest state. The pieces here represent some of my efforts to advocate for policies which, in my opinion, would result in a stronger Tasmanian economy and improved living standards for Tasmanians.
Tasmania’s Economy: Lots of Progress but lots still to do
Tasmania | 8th December 2006Talk to the Economic Society of Australia (Tasmanian Branch) Tasmanian Economic Forum, 8th December 2006
Poverty in Tasmania: An Economist’s Perspective
Tasmania | 19th October 2005The third annual Dorothy Pearce address to the Tasmanian Council of Social Service (TasCOSS), 19th October 2005
Human Capital and Tasmania’s Economic Future
Education, Tasmania | 24th August 2005Keynote Address to the Australian Human Resources Institute’s ‘HR Week’ Conference – Wrest Point, Hobart, 24th August 2005
The Nixon Report – What’s Next
Tasmania | 25th August 1997Address to the University of Tasmania’s ‘Tasmania 2010 Forum’, 25th August 1997
ANZ’s submission to the Commonwealth-State Inquiry into the Tasmanian Economy (the Nixon Inquiry)
Tasmania | 15th February 1997My first substantial piece of writing about Tasmania’s economic problems, written on behalf of my then employer ANZ Bank to a Commonwealth-State Inquiry into the Tasmanian Economy headed by Peter Nixon, a former National Party MP and senior minister in the federal government of Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.
