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Session I: Forgetting the future - where we went wrong
Keynote Speech: The Hon Julia Gillard MP, Deputy Prime Minister
Back to the Future - Economic Policy in the post-Crisis Era
Can Keynesian economics be applied to an open, globalised economy?
Bang for buck: Getting the highest impact from fiscal stimulus
Balancing innovation and risk: investments, ideas, institutions
What will give Australia a sound platform for sustainable future growth?
Morning tea break
Session II: Integrating economic and social value
Applying a Full-Cost Economics: Why social effects matter
Defining social costs and benefits
Bringing social accounts onto public and private balance sheets
Is mandatory reporting the answer?
Can social assets be traded? Is carbon trading a useful model?
Delivering Social Return on Investment
Developing a consistent framework for measuring social ROI
Building an investment case into the policy design process
How do you capture social returns?
What is the investment horizon?
Human Capital Investment: Economic capacity with social opportunity
Separating fact from fiction: Evidence on returns to education investment
Class size, teacher pay, early childhood: What are the high return opportunities?
Does education investment lead to higher growth? Or reduced inequality?
Is investment in retraining better than subsidizing jobs?
Lunch Day 1
Keynote Speech: Andrew Barr MLA, ACT Minister for Education and Training
Session III: Market Design New approaches to regulation
Market failure: When should policymakers act?
Distinguishing market failure from individual actor failure
Underlying causes: Market power, imperfect information, externalities
Before or after the fact: When should government act?
Aligning market design solutions with types of market failure
Aligning public and private interests through incentives
Structuring incentives around optimal public outcomes
How to design the rules of the game?
Balancing efficiency and equity
ABC Learning: Lessons learned from poorly aligned interests
Afternoon tea break
Session IV: Choice Architecture Encouraging personal decision making for the long-term
Behavioural change: Its Australias choice
When is behaviour change an appropriate government tool?
Successful behavioural change traditional and non-traditional approaches
Getting Australia to act on public policy challenges
Discussion of behavioural change public policy examples
Case study: Health - What next for prevention?
The role of prevention
Successes, failures and lessons learned
Why so little when so much can be achieved?
Where are we going now? And what will be the new directions?
Close of Day 1
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Keynote Speech: The Hon Jenny Macklin MP, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Session VI: Financing government in the long-term How do we pay for all this?
Can public spending do it?
Why is our economy unstable?
How could public spending stabilise an unstable economy?
How has public spending actually got us out of recessions in the past?
Can public spending do it again this time?
What does the future hold - recovery or depression, inflation or deflation?
Linking taxation with long-term development
Exploring the connection between taxation and long-term development
Key impacts of taxation on corporate and individual decisions
Tax design and needs for public investment
Proposals for reform
Morning tea break
Session VI: Policy breakouts Initial discussions
A) Managing risk in the policy cycle: New approaches for policymakers
B) Climate change: Moving beyond the CPRS
Lunch Day 2
Session VII: Policy breakouts Developing proposals
A) Managing risk in the policy cycle: New approaches for policymakers
B) Climate change: Moving beyond the CPRS
Afternoon tea break
Concluding Plenary: Summary of discussions and presentation of policy proposals
Close of conference
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