Conferences

  • •  The University of Chile and CBE (ANU) Conference, Student Loan Policy, Santiago, Chile, October 2018
  • •  The Government of Chile and CBE (ANU) Forum, Higher Education Financing Policy, Santiago, Chile, October 2018
  • •  ANU/Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Conference, Higher Education Financing: the need and potential for reform in Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam, July 2018 (with Dung Doan).
  •  • ANU Forum, International Student Loan Forum, Canberra, December 2017 (with Dung Doan).
  •  • ANU/Tongji University Conference, ‘Student Loans’, Shanghai, China, October 2016 (with Glenn Withers).
  •  • ANU/DPU/CEPAR Conference, “Immigration, Ageing and the Labour Market”, DPUniversity, Bangkok, February 2015 (with Kiathianan Lounkaew and John Piggott).
  •  • ANU/DPU Conference, ASEAN Tertiary Education reform, DPUniversity, Bangkok, March 2013 (with Kiananthianan Lounkaew).
  •  • International Economics Association Workshop, Income Contingent Loans, DPUniversity, Bangkok, March 2013 (with Joseph Stiglitz).
  •  • Crawford School Dialogue, The Climate Change Policy Debate, Canberra, September, 2011.
  •  • Crawford School Dialogue, The Asian Economies, April, 2011.
  •  • Crawford School Dialogue, Deforestation, Canberra, March, 2011.
  •  • Crawford School Dialogue, Policy Issues for Australia’s Future, Canberra, February, 2010.
  •  • The Learned Academies ARC Grant Workshop, Income Contingent Loans for Social and Economic Policy, Crawford School of Economics and Government, ANU, August, 2008.
  •  • The Crawford School of Economics and Government and D.P. University, Higher Education Financing in Asia: Lessons for Policy Reform, July 2008, Bangkok.
  •  • The Crawford School of Economics and Government, “An Analysis of FEE-HELP in the Private Tertiary Education Sector”, a one day workshop held in conjunction with the Melbourne Institute, ANU, December, 2007.
  •  • The Crawford School of Economics and Government, Japanese and Australian Labour Markets Compared, ANU, July, 2007 (with Dehne Taylor).
  •  • Economics RSSS, The Australian Labour Market Research Workshop, ANU, November, 2005 (with Prem Thapa).
  •  • Economics, RSSS, The Bobfest: A Celebration of the Career of Professor Bob Gregory, Australian National University, Canberra, June, 2005 (with Paul Frijters).
  •  • Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia, 2004 Symposium, Government as Risk Manager, Australian National University, Canberra, November, 2004.
  •  • CEPR and NISS Conference, The Future of Australian Higher Education, Australian National University, Canberra, November, 2002.
  •  • CEPR and Melbourne Institute Joint Conference, Job Creation: The Role of Government, ANU, September, 2001.
  •  • CEPR/University of Canberra Workshop, ‘Cross-sectoral Funding Issues in Post-compulsory Education and Training’, ANU, July, 2001 (jointly with Louise Watson).
  •  • 7th Annual Unemployment Conference, November, 2000 (jointly with Raja Junankar, University of Western Sydney).
  •  • Australian Labour Market Research Workshop’, November, 2000 (jointly with Russell Ross, University of Sydney).
  •  • CEPR Economic Policy Development Seminar, October, 2000.
  •  • 13thAnnual PhD conference in Economics and Business, October, 2000 (jointly with Bob Gregory, ANU).
  •  • CEPR Economic Policy Development Seminar, September, 1999.
  •  • CEPR/Productivity Commission Workshop, Do Youth Wages Matter?, joint, ANU, Canberra, November, 1998 (with Phillippa Dee).
  •  • CEPR/Department of Community Services joint conference, Towards a Social Security Research Agenda, ANU, Canberra, November, 1998 (co-convenor with Bob Gregory, Chris Foster and James Jordan).
  •  • CEPR Economic Policy Development Seminar, Canberra, August, 1998.
  •  • Host of the Sydney Institute’s seminar, The Current Tax Reform Debate, Australian National University, Canberra, March, 1998.
  •  • CEPR/University of New South Wales Workshop in Public Finance and Tax Reform, ANU, February, 1998 (Joint Convenor, with John Piggott).
  •  • CEPR/Victoria University of Technology Conference, The Australian Labour Market Research Workshop, Melbourne, February, 1998 (Joint Convenor, with Ken Wilson).
  •  • CEPR/Reshaping Australian Institutions (RAI) ANU Joint Conference, Economics and Industrial Relations: Reassessing the Relationship, Australian National University, Canberra, December, 1997 (Joint Convenor, with Keith Hancock, Peter Gahan and David Peetz).
  •  • CEPR/Economics Society Economic Policy Development Symposium, Canberra, May, 1997.
  •  • CEPR Symposium, Policy Options for Financing Higher Education, Canberra, June, 1996.
  •  • CEPR/NBEET Conference, Equity and Efficiency in Australian Education, Canberra, September, 1995.
  •  • CEPR/NBEET, Costs, Performance and Educational Incentives, Canberra, March, 1994.
  •  • CEPR/ACCESS Economics Conference, Economic Forecasting and Unemployment Policy, Canberra, October, 1993.
  •  • CEPR/DEET Conference, Unemployment: Causes, Costs and Cures, Australian National University, February, 1993.
  •  • CEPR Conference, The Australian Labour Market Research Workshop, Australian National University: February, 1990; February, 1991; February, 1992; February, 1997; November, 1999.
  •  • CEPR/Department of Employment, Education and Training (DEET) Joint Conference, Youth Training Wages, Australian National University, August, 1990.
  •  • CEPR Conference, Industry Training Reform, Australian National University, March, 1989.
  •  • One-day workshop, Industry Training, Australian National University, June 1988.
  •  • Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Conference, Recent Australian Economic Growth, Australian National University, November 1986.
  •  • One-day seminar The UK Labour Market, Australian National University, June 1986.
  •  • One-day seminar, Labour Market Issues in the 1930s, Australian National University, October 1985 (jointly with Bob Gregory).
  •  • “Higher Education financing international experience: Lessons for Chile”, at the University of Chile and CBE (ANU) Conference, Student Loan Policy, Santiago, Chile, October 2018.
  •  • “Student Loans issues for Chile”, at the Government of Chile and CBE (ANU) Forum, Higher Education Financing Policy, Santiago, Chile, October 2018
  •  • “HECS: Concepts, History, Policy Issues and International Comparisons”, Australian Association for Institutional Research Conference: Special Interest Groups, Canberra, July 2018.
  •  • “The Economics and Public Policy of Student Loans: Lessons for Vietnam”, ANU/Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Conference, Higher Education Financing: the need and potential for reform in Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam, July 2018.
  •  • “Student loan reform issues for Brazil”, Brazilian government Conference on higher education financing policy for Brazil, Sao Paulo, February, 2018.
  •  • “Conceptual Issues in Higher Education Financing”, ANU International Student Loan Forum, Canberra, December 2017.
  •  • “Student loans: Conceptual and policy issues for Japan”, Japanese government Conference on higher education financing issues for Japan, Tokyo, September 2017.
  •  • The Joseph Fisher Lecture, the annual invited public lecture of the University of Adelaide, “The Government as Banker: Income contingent loans for social and economic progress”, Adelaide, October, 2015.
  •  • “Higher Education Funding: Theory and International Practice”, NUEPA conference Innovative University Funding Mechanisms, Delhi, India, February, 2015.
  •  • “The Australian Awards Celebration”, DFAT, Old Parliament House, December 2013.
  •  • “The externalities from Australian higher education”, presented to the conference The Base Funding Review, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, April, 2012.
  •  • “Income contingent loan schemes: Conceptual issues and international comparative lessons”, presented to the conference, Funding of Student Finance, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, April, 2012.
  •  • “Student Loans in Concept”, DPU/World Bank conference, Access and Equity in Higher Education, Bangkok, June 2011.
  •  • “Student loans: Conceptual, empirical and policy issues”, Catholic University of Mons, Belgium Conference, Financing the Mobility of Students in the EU, Mons, Belgium, November, 2010.
  •  • “Evidence-based Policy and Policy-based Evidence”, Liquid learning conference, Economics for Policy-makers, Canberra, June, 2010.
  •  • “Back from the Dead: Long Term Unemployment and the GFC”, Hanover Annual Conference, Melbourne, December 2, 2009.
  •  • “International Reforms to Student Loans”, Chile Student Financing Commission Conference, Financing Higher Education, Santiago, Chile, November 25, 2009.
  •  • “Back from the Dead: Long Term Unemployment and the GFC”, Jobs Australia Conference, Hobart, October 21, 2009.
  •  • “Back from the Dead: Long Term Unemployment and the GFC”, Judicial Commission of Australia Annual Conference. Melbourne, October 10, 2009.
  •  • “Thailand’s Student Loan Debate” to the DPU Conference, Higher Education Policy Reform, Bangkok, July 9-11, 2009.
  •  • “Long Term Unemployment”, to the Prime Minister’s Community Jobs Summit, Melbourne, May 1, 2009.
  •  • “Student Loans Schemes in Theory and Practice”, Higher Education Financing in the OECD Conference, Luxembourg, January, 2009.
  •  • “Student Loans in International Context”, Financing Tertiary Education Conference, 50th Anniversary of the Association of Colombian Universities, Bucaramanga, Colombia, February, 2008.
  •  • “Financing Thailand Higher Education”, to the Thai Government conference, Student Loans for Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand, February, 2007.
  •  • “Income contingent loans: lessons from the colonies”, presented to the Russell Group, Bristol, England, February, 2007.
  •  • The Edward Shann Memorial Lecture, “Government as Risk Manager: Income contingent loans for social and economic progress”, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, September, 2006.
  •  • “Income Contingent Loans for Higher Education: Lessons for the UK Debate”, to the Celebrating Professionalism, the UCAS Annual Conference, Nottingham, England, April, 2006.
  •  • “The Impact of Income Contingent Student Fees – A Global Perspective”, to the Higher Education Futures Conference, The Knowledge Partnership, University of Cambridge, England, April, 2006.
  •  • “The Australian Experience with Income Contingent Loans for Higher Education”, to the International Symposium on Student Loan Policy, organised by UNESCO and the Thai Student Loans Fund, Bangkok, Thailand, March, 2006.
  •  • “Theoretical Issues for Higher Education Financing”, to the International Symposium on Student Loan Policy, organised by UNESCO and the Thai Student Loans Fund, Bangkok, Thailand, March, 2006.
  •  • “Conceptual Issues and the Australian experience with income contingent loans” to the Thai Government conference, Income Contingent Loans for Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand, November 2005.
  •  • “Understanding the Case for Student Tuition and Income Contingent Loans”, at the Annual RWI: Essen Policy Conference, Higher Education Financing for Germany, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen, Germany, November 2005.
  •  • “Student Loans for Private Education and Training”, Australian Council for Private Education and Training Annual Conference, Adelaide, August, 2005.
  •  • The Blake Dawson Waldron – ANU Lecture, “Income Related Loans for Social and Economic Progress”, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, June 2004.
  •  • ‘Higher Education Financing Principles for Nepal’ World Bank Roundtable on Higher Education Reform in Nepal, Kathmandu, May, 2002.
  •  • ‘International Experiences on funding and Access to Higher Education: The Case of Australia’, The University of Nottingham Conference, Future Funding Options for Higher Education in Britain, University of Nottingham, October, 2001.
  •  • ‘The Higher Education Policy Debate’, National Press Club, October, 2002, Canberra.
  •  • ‘The History and Political Economy of the Higher Education Contribution Scheme’, presented to the Student Financial Advisers’ Annual Conference, Warrnambool, September 2000.
  •  • ‘Long term Unemployment: Background, Forecasts and Policy Analysis’, Jobs Australia First National Congress, Adelaide, March 1998.
  •  • ‘Income Contingent Charges: Evidence for the UK Debate’, London School of Economics Workshop, Reforming UK Higher Education, London, April, 1997.
  •  • ‘The Effect on Engineers and Maths and Science Teachers of the 1996/97 Budget’, address to the Department of Industry, Science and Technology, Canberra, November, 1996.Key‘Research and the Public Policy Process: HECS as a Case Study’, 1996 Australian Annual Economics PhD Conference, Canberra, November, 1996.
  •  • ‘The 1996/97 Budget and Higher Education Financing Policy’, address to the Annual Retreat of the Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee, Brisbane, September, 1996.
  •  • ‘The Australian Income Contingent University Charge System’, address to the Centrum fur Hochschulentwicklung Conference, University Charge Systems, Bielfeld, Germany, May, 1996.
  •  • ‘Why There is a Job Compact’, presented to the NSW Area Manager’s Workshop on Managing Labour Market Programs, Sydney, October, 1995.
  •  • ‘The Case for The Job Compact’, presented to the Deakin University workshop on Case Management, Geelong, May, 1995.
  •  • ‘Policy for Long Term Unemployment’, presented to the University of New England Conference on the Government’s White Paper, Armidale, July, 1994.
  •  • ‘Long Term Unemployment and Australian Industrial Relations Reform’, address to the 1994 Convention of the ACT Industrial Relations Society, Canberra, April 1994.
  •  • ‘Income Contingent Charges for Higher Education’, keynote address to the McMaster University Symposium on Higher Education Financing, Ontario, Canada, February, 1994.
  •  • ‘Theory, Data and Policy Related to Long Term Unemployment’, presented to the Annual Meetings of the New Zealand Economics Association, Dunedin, August, 1993.
  •  • ‘Income Contingent Charges’, presented to London School of Economics Workshop, Financing Higher Education, London, May, 1993.
  • • “HECS: Origins, international spread and extensions”, RSE Masterclass, National Press Club, Canberra, November 2018.  
  • • “The Case for Tuition Charges”, Resolution Foundation public event, Still fees-ible? The future of funding on higher education in England, London, September 2017.
  •  • “The Australian Experience of HE Finance”, Australian High Commission in London public event, The future of higher education in the UK and Australia: what can we learn from each other?, London, September 2017.
  •  • “Higher Education Financing in Colombia: Concepts and views from Australia and England”, Colombian Public Forums, Bogota & Medellin, June, 2017.
  •  • “Higher Education Financing: Theory, Evidence and Policy Issues”, (with L Dearden), National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) presentation, Tokyo, Japan, February 2017.
  •  • “HECS: Origins, Evolution, International Adoption and Extensions”, Inaugural Lecture, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University, December 2016.
  •  • “The 1980s”, 70th Birthday Celebrations of the Australian National University, July 2016.
  •  • ‘Student Loan Reform Around the World’, Colombia International Education Congress, Bogota, Colombia, July 2016.
  •  • ‘Australian Student Loan Policy Lessons for the US’, University of Michegan forum Student Loan Reform for the US, Washington DC, June 2016.
  •  • “The Australian Experience” presented to the University of the Sorbonne Conference, Higher Education Policies for France, Paris, June 2014.
  •  • “Income contingent loans for reform of Myanmar Higher Education”, University Policy Reforms, UNESCO Rangoon, Myanmar, May 2014.
  •  • “Using the tax system to collect criminal fines”, NSW Department of the Attorney-General’s special seminar, April 2014.
  •  • “Income contingent loans for the financing of Legal Aid”, Commonwealth Department of the Attorney-General, Canberra, September 2013.
  •  • “Evidence Based Policy, and Policy Based Evidence”, Liquid learning Conference, Public Policy Making in Practice, Canberra, February, 2011.
  •  • “Evidence Based Policy, and Policy Based Evidence”, DEEWR Seminar Series, Canberra, February, 2011.
  •  • “Thailand student loans”, DPU Public Lecture, Bangkok, Thailand, November, 2010.
  •  • “Reforming Papua New Guinea’s Higher Education Financing”, for the Garnaut/Namalui Australian and Papua New Guinea Government’s Review of Papua New Guinea Higher Education, Madang, Papua New Guinea, February 2010.
  •  • “Long Term Unemployment: Back from the Dead with the GFC”, the Economics Society of Western Australia, Perth, October 1, 2009.
  •  • “Long Term Unemployment Back from the Dead with the GFC”, the Australian Economic Forum, Darling Harbour, Sydney, August 19, 2009.
  •  • “Evidence on Evidence-Based Policy”, to the Productivity Commission Conference, Towards the Adoption of More Evidence-based Policy, Old Parliament House, Canberra, August 17-18, 2009.
  •  • “HECS and the Bradley Review”, to a University of Canberra Council Workshop, Canberra, April, 2009.
  •  • “The Global Financial Crisis and Australian Higher Education”, to the Griffith University Council Retreat, Brisbane, February 2009.
  •  • “The Australian Higher Education Contribution Scheme: Lessons for Malaysia”, to the visiting delegation of Malaysian higher education officials, ANU, February, 2009.
  •  • “Reflections on the UK Higher Education Income Contingent Loan Scheme”, to the UK Department of Innovation, Skills and Training, London, January, 2009.
  •  • “Drought Policy Reform” (with Linda Botterill), to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Government Drought Support, December, 2008, Canberra.“Income Contingent Loans: Lessons for Ireland”, to the Irish Department of Skills and Training, Dublin, January, 2009.
  •  • “Income contingent loans as Innovatory Public Policy”, Spatial Innovations Conference, Canberra, November, 2008.
  •  • “The Higher Education Contribution Scheme:”, Australian Centre for Social and Population Research public lecture series, September, 2008, Australian National University.
  •  • “Sharing the costs of paid parental leave” (with Tim Higgins), to the Productivity Commission Inquiry, Paid Parental Leave on the Draft Report, October, 2008, Canberra.
  •  • “Income Contingent Loans”, to the ACT Treasury, August, 2008.
  •  • “Sharing the costs of paid parental leave”, to the Committee of Economic Development of Australia, Melbourne, August, 2008.
  •  • “Sharing the costs of paid parental leave” (with Tim Higgins), to the Productivity Commission Inquiry, Paid Parental Leave, July 2008, Canberra.
  •  • “Income Contingent Loans for Policy Reform”, EDIOS Foundation, Brisbane, April, 2008.
  •  • “Alternative Funding Models for Higher Education”, presented to the Australian Financial Review Higher Education Conference, Sydney, March 2008.
  •  • “Thailand Student Loans”, DP University, Bangkok, Thailand, January, 2008.
  •  • “Innovative policies for the mature aged training”, to the Group Training Association of Victoria Annual Conference, Bendigo, July, 2007 (with Dehne Taylor).
  •  • “Income contingent loans for the UK”, address to the British House of Commons Education Steering Committee, British High Commission, November, 2006, Canberra.
  •  • “Student Unionism”, to the National Union of Students 20th Anniversary Dinner, November, 2006, Sydney.
  •  • “Higher Education Futures”, to the National Union of Students Annual Conference, Monash University, June, 2006.
  •  • “Income Contingent Loans for Higher Education: Lessons for the UK Debate”, to the UK Department of Further Education and Science, London, England, April, 2006.
  •  • “Student Loans for Germany”, Liberal Party of Germany, University of Potsdam, November 2005.
  •  • “Income Contingent Loans for Higher Education: Conceptual Issues and International Experience”, to Israeli education officials and education economist, Tel Aviv, Israel, November, 2005.
  •  • “Income Contingent Loans for Higher Education: Conceptual Issues and International Experience’, to the KEDI-World Bank International Forum, Financing Reform for Tertiary Education in the Knowledge Economy, Seoul, Korea, April 2005.
  •  • “TAFE Financing Reforms”, Australian Labour Market Research Workshop, University of Western Australia, Perth, December, 2004.
  •  • National Institute for Economics and Business Invited Lecture, “A Critical Appraisal of the Government’s Higher Education Policies”, Parliament House, Canberra, September, 2004.
  •  • “A Critique of the Nelson Reforms”, Higher Education Forum, University of NSW Student’s Association, Sydney, May, 2004.
  •  • ‘Student Loans’, to the World Bank conference, The Management of Universities, Bangkok, Thailand, April, 2004.
  •  • “A Critique of the Nelson Reforms”, South Australian Economics Society, Adelaide, February, 2004.
  •  • “The Effect of HECS Changes on Students”, RMIT Senate, Melbourne, February, 2004 (with Gillian Beer).
  •  • “The Effect of HECS Changes on Students”, University of Western Australia Senate, Perth, November, 2003 (with Gillian Beer).
  •  • “A critical review of the government’s higher education proposals”, Curtin University, November, Curtin University of Technology, November, 2003.
  •  • “The 2003/04 Federal Higher Education Budget”, Australian Association of Student Assistance Annual Conference, Melbourne, November, 2003.
  •  • “A critical review of the government’s higher education proposals”, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia Colloquium, November, 2003, ANU.
  •  • “Income Contingent Charges for Higher Education”, at the Thailand Higher Education Financing Reform Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, October, 2003.
  •  • “Student Charging Mechanisms: The Australian Experience with income related Charges”, Australia Centre/Hochschul Rektoren German-Australia Conference on Higher Education Financing, Australian Embassy, Berlin, Germany, October, 2003.
  • • “Income Related Charges for Mexico?” at the Mexican Higher Education Reform Conference, Mexico City, Mexico (October, 2003).
  • • “Income Related Loans for High Education” at the Colombian Higher Education Reform Conferences, Carthagena, Colombia (October 2003).
  • • Senate inquiry into Higher Education Financing Reform, Parliament house, Canberra, October, 2003.
  • • “Higher Education Financing After 2003”, 32nd Annual Conference of Australian Economists, Australian National University, Canberra, September, 2003.
  • • “The 2003/04 Budget: Higher Education Financing”, to the University of Queensland Economics Alumni Club, Brisbane, July, 2003.
  • • “The Publishing Game”, to University of Western Sydney Economics Graduate Students, July, 2003.
  • • Lifecycle Distributions (ALP Economic Policy Caucus, June, 2003); ‘Property Crime and Schooling’, for the Australian Institute of Criminology Conference, The Role of Schools in Crime Prevention. Melbourne, September 2002; Youth Unemployment (August 2002), The 2003/04 Budget Changes to HECS.
  • • ‘Resource Flexibility for Australian Universities’, Centre for the Economics of Education, UNE Conference, Higher Education Reform, ANU, May, 2002.
  • • ‘The Economics of Higher Education Financing’, presented to the ANU/University of Canberra Workshop, ‘Cross-sectoral Funding Issues in Post-compulsory Education and Training’, ANU, July 2001.
  • • Senate Inquiry on Higher Education Financing, Canberra, June 2001.
  • • ‘Higher Education Financing Issues for Reform’, to the University of Melbourne’s Institute for Applied Economic and Social Research’ forums, ‘Higher Education Policy Reform’, in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra, June-July 2001.
  • • Invited commentator on Dan Finn, ‘Britain’s “work-based” Welfare State: Lessons from the New Deals’, Department of Family and Community Services, Canberra, May 2001.
  • • ‘Education and the Labour Market: Gender Issues’, to the Australian Institute of Political Science Conference, Education Symposium: Educational Attainment and Labour Market Outcomes – factors affecting boys and their status in relation to girls, Sydney, November 2000.
  • • ‘Reforming VET Financing’, to the Simion Bowles Conference, Understanding Good Governance’, Perth, November 2000.
  • • ‘The Role of Labour Market Programs and Education in Reducing Unemployment: Evaluation, Method and Analysis’, presented to the Economic Policy Branch, Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, Melbourne, August 2000.
  • • ‘Unemployment Duration and Policy’, to a Chinese Government Delegation, Public Policy Program, ANU, May 1999.
  • • ‘The Role and Evaluation of Labour Market Programs’, Productivity Commission, Canberra, April 1999.
  • • Invited commentator on the Five Economist’s plan, Melbourne Institute Lunch Parliament House, Canberra, March 1999.
  • • ‘From Rubbish to Publish’, presented to the Post-graduate Training Seminar, RSSS, August 1998, and October, 1999.
  • • ‘Canadian Longitudinal Data and Research: Lessons for Australia’, Department of Social Security Seminar Series, Canberra, March 1998.
  • • ‘Implementing Policy: HECS as a Case Study’, presented to the Public Policy Program Conference, Academics and Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, February 1998.
  • • ‘Getting Your Australian Labour Market Research Published’, to the Australian Labour Market Research Workshop, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, February, 1998.
  • • ‘Exploring and Explaining Australia’s Higher Education Contribution Scheme’, to the International Conference of University Teachers, Melbourne, February, 1998.
  • • ‘Analysing the West Report’, presented to the Conference, The West Report, organised by the Australian Academy of Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, December, 1997.
  • • ‘Conceptual Issues in Income Contingent Loans’, presented to the Department of Human Resources, Ottawa, Canada, October 1997.
  • • Keynote address: ‘Reforming Canada Student Loans’, presented to the forum, Student Finances Debate, University of York, Toronto, Canada, October 1997.
  • • ‘Parliamentary Process’, presented to the Centre for International and Public Law series on Parliament, Australian National University, September 1997.
  • • ‘Applied Econometric Issues in Labour Market Analysis’, presented to Case Studies in Applied Econometrics, Master’s Economics Program, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, ANU, August, 1997.
  • • ‘The Publishing Game’, presented to Public Policy Program PhD Seminar, September, 1997.
  • • ‘Some Financing Issues for Australian Higher Education Teaching’, presented to the Conference Reforming Australian Higher Education, Gold Coast, August, 1997.
  • • ‘Long Term Unemployment and the Role of Labour Market Programs’, invited participant in The Labour Market Roundtable of the SSRC Annual Congress, University of NSW, July, 1997.
  • • ‘The Economics of Training’, to the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia Workshop on Training, Melbourne, June, 1997.
  • • ‘Labour Market Adjustment Issues’, to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Roundtable on Trade Liberalisation, Parliament House, Canberra, June, 1997.
  • • ‘HECS and the UK Financing of Higher Education Debate’, address to the Committee of Inquiry into UK Higher Education Reform, London, April, 1997.
  • • ‘Australian Higher Education Financing’, address to the Society for Research on Higher Education, UK, April, 1997.
  • • ‘Labour Market Programs’, address to the Industry Commission Conference, Changing Labour Markets – Prospects for Productivity Growth, Melbourne, February, 1997.
  • • ‘Direct Policy Lessons for the Economics of Education and Training’, address to the Centre for the Economics of Education and Training, Monash University Conference, Links Between Research and Policy, Planning and Performance in Vocational Education and Training, Melbourne, February, 1997.
  • • ‘Who Should Pay for Vocational Education and Training?’, address to the Centre for the Economics of Education and Training, Monash University Conference, Vocational Education Policy, Melbourne, March, 1997.
  • • ‘Understanding HECS’, address to the Public Policy Program Orientation Day, March, 1997.
  • • ‘Alternative Approaches to Unemployment’, address to the Community and Public Sector Union Conference on Unemployment, Sydney, November, 1996.
  • • ‘Labour Market Programs and the 1996/97 Budget’, address to the ACOSS Annual Congress, Canberra, October, 1996.
  • • ‘Higher Education Financing and the 1996/97 Budget’, address to Australian University Registrars, Canberra, October, 1996.
  • • ‘The 1996/97 Budget and the New Costs of Educating Teachers’, address to the Annual Meetings of the Australian Council of Education Deans, Canberra, September, 1996.
  • • ‘Australia’s Experience with Income Contingent Charges for Higher Education’, address to the Papua New Guinea Office of Higher Education, Port Moresby, September, 1996.
  • • ‘Dealing with Long Term Unemployment’, address to the Lawson Institute: A ‘Better Vision’ Seminar, Perth, August, 1996.
  • • ‘Preserving the Higher Education Contribution Scheme’, address to the Lawson Institute: A ‘Better Vision’ Seminar, Perth, August, 1996.
  • • ‘The Role of Research in Influencing Economic Policy’, address at the formal naming of the Centre for Labour Economics, Perth, March, 1996.
  • • ‘The Job Compact as an Example of Public Policy’, presented to the University of Melbourne Public Policy Masters Course on Instituting Public Policy, July, 1995.
  • • ‘The Jobs Compact’, address to the Western Australian Industrial Society, Perth, Western Australia, May 1994.
  • • ‘Research into the Costs and Benefits of Vocational Education and Training’, ANTA/National Research Advisory Council Conference Research priorities in Vocational Education and Training, Sydney, April 1994.
  • • ‘The Role of the Job Compact in Addressing Long Term Unemployment’, presented to the University of Sydney Economics Department Symposium on Analysing Solutions to Unemployment, Sydney, April, 1994.
  • • ‘Approaches to Long Term Unemployment’, presented to the Victorian Commercial Teacher’s Association Annual Meetings, Melbourne, December, 1993.
  • • ‘Australian Long Term Unemployment’, presented to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Secretariat on Unemployment, Paris, November, 1993.
  • • ‘Long Term Unemployment: Problems and Policies’, presented to the Annual Congress of the Australia Council of Social Security, Melbourne, October, 1993.
  • • ‘Labour Market Programs and Long Term Unemployment’, presented to the Annual Congress of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Sydney, September, 1993.
  • • ‘Why Is Economics Interesting?’, an address to the Mobil Managing the Australian Economy Competition, The Hyatt Hotel, August, 1993.
  • • ‘Macroeconomic Policy and Long Term Unemployment’, presented to the Australian Treasury Seminar Series, July, 1993.
  • • ‘Selection Bias in the Assessment of Labour Market Programs’, presented to Department of Employment, Education and Training Senior Officers, Canberra, July, 1993.
  • • ‘Long Term Unemployment’, presented to Caucus Task Force on Unemployment, Canberra, June, 1993.
  • • ‘Australian Student Loans’, presented to UK Research on Education Group, London, June, 1993.
  • • ‘The HECS Policy’, presented to UK Department for Education, London, May, 1993.
  • • ‘Long Term Unemployment’, presented to the ACT Commercial Teacher’s Association, Canberra, May, 1993.
  • • ‘Long Term Unemployment and Labour Market Programs’, presented to Department of Employment, Education and Training, May, 1993.
  • • ‘Why Is Economics Interesting?’, an address to the Mobil Managing the Australian Economy Competition, The Hyatt Hotel, August, 1992.
  • • ‘Long Term Unemployment and the NAIRU’, presented to the Economics Society of Western Australia, Perth, July, 1992.
  • • ‘Long Term Unemployment’, presented to Commonwealth Employment Services Senior Officers’ Workshop, Canberra, June, 1992.
  • • ‘Long Term Unemployment’, Department of Employment, Education and Training Workshop, (Office of Labour Market Adjustment) Melbourne, April, 1992.
  • • ‘The Economics of Australia’s Higher Education Contribution Scheme’, presented to The Royal Economic Society Conference, The Economics of Higher Education, London, September, 1991.
  • • ‘Political Economy Processes with Respect to the Institution of Australia’s Tertiary Tax’, presented to World Bank Workshop on International Comparisons of Student Loans, Washington, September 1991.
  • • ‘Microeconomic Reform of the Australian Labour Market’, presented to CEPR conference, Microeconomic Reform in Australia, ANU, December, 1990 (with Jeff Borland and Malcolm Rimmer).
  • • ‘Long Term Unemployment’, presented to Commonwealth Employment Services Senior Officers’ workshop, Canberra, November, 1990.
  • • ‘Who Leaves the Australian Public Service, and Why? or, How Smart is Vince FitzGerald, Really?’ address to the ACT Branch of the Australian Economics Society, April, 1989.
  • • debates on the tertiary tax, ANU and Melbourne University, February-March, 1989.
  • • ‘Taxing Students’, NSW Economics Society, University of Sydney, October 1988.
  • • ‘Apprenticeship Wages in Western Australia’, Western Australian Department of Employment and Training, Perth, September 1988.
  • • ‘Immigrants in the Australian Labour Market’ (with John J. Beggs), Symposium on the Economics of Immigration, 1988 Australian Economics Congress, Canberra, August 1988.
  • • ‘The Wran Committee Report’, ACOSS, Sydney, June 1988.
  • • ‘The Wran Committee Report’, Western Australian Centre for Continuing Education, Perth, June 1988.
  • • ‘Australian Labour Market Reform’, presented to the Progressive Economics Society, ANU, August 1987.
  • • ‘Some Micro and Macro Implications of the Australian Labour Market System’, paper presented to Australian Graduate School of Management conference on Australian Labour Market Deregulation, University of NSW, July 1987.
  • • ‘Labour Market Outcomes from the Accord’, presented to Royal Australian Institute for Public Administration Conference on Public Administration, June 1986.
  • • ‘Assessing the Impact of the Accord’, presented to the Economics Society of Tasmania, May 1986.
  • • ‘Affirmative Action for Women: Economic Issues’ presented to Australian Financial Review Seminar on Affirmative Action, Melbourne, June 1984.
  • • ‘A Profile of the Australian Labour Market’, presented to meetings of the Australia-Japan Foundation, Tokyo, March 1983.
  • • “The Basis to Higher Education Financing”, Australasian Society of Labour Economics conference, Economics Research and International Reforms in Tertiary Education Funding, Canberra, December 2017.
  • • “Student Loans in Concept and International Practice”, Irish Forum on Higher Education Funding, The Potential Role of Income-Contingent Student Loans, Dublin, September 2017
  • • “Student Loan Design for Higher Education Financing: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Evidence”,  Leuven Economics of Education Research (LEER) Workshop on Education Economics, Leuven, Belgium, March 2017.
  • • “Higher Education Financing Reforms: the 2014/15 Budget”, CBE and Crawford School forum, Income contingent Loans, ANU, Canberra, August 2014.
  • • ‘The Government’s 2014/15 Plans for Australian Higher Education Reform’, presented to several forums (2014/15) at: University of Western Sydney; the University of Queensland; the Australian Human Rights Annual Conference; and Victoria University.
  • • “Higher Education Financing Reforms: the 2014/15 Budget”, Melbourne Economic Forum, The University Funding Debate, March, 2015.
  • • “The Brain Drain Tax” (with Philip Clarke), DPU/ANU/CEPAR Conference, Immigration Ageing and the Labour Market, February, 2015.
  • • “Higher Education Financing Reforms: the 2014/15 Budget”, University of Canberra Higher Education Funding Conference (February 2015).
  • • “Higher Education Financing Reforms: the 2014/15 Budget”, to the Executives of the University of Queensland (October, 2014), the University of Western Sydney (October 2014), Victoria University (February, 2015), and the Queensland University of Technology (forthcoming, April, 2015).
  • • The Cunningham Lecture: annual invited lecture of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia, “The Government as Banker: Income contingent loans for social and economic progress”, Canberra, November 2014.
  • • “The higher education reforms of the 2014/15 Commonwealth budgets”, price Waterhouse Coopers seminars in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, July/August 2014.
  • • “The Australian and UK higher education financing systems compared”, University of London Higher Education Workshop, London, June 2014.
  • • “Income Contingent Loans as a Risk Management Instrument”, International Economics Association Congress, Jordan, June 2014.
  • • “Income Contingent Loans for Higher Education”, International Economics Association Congress, Jordan, June 2014.
  • •“Australian Higher Education Financing”, Lumina Foundation Workshop on Australian Higher Education Arrangements, Washington DC, April 2013.
  • • “Student Loans Policy”, American Council for Education Conference Student Loans: Towards a New Design? Washington DC, April 2013.
  • • “Student Loan Issues for South and East Asia”, ANU/DPU Conference, ASEAN Tertiary Education reform, DPUniversity, Bangkok, March 2013.
  • • “Income contingent loans in concept and practice”, International Economics Association Workshop, Income Contingent Loans, DPUniversity, Bangkok, March 2013.
  • • “Student Loans in Concept and International Experience”, Malaysian Ministry for Higher Education Conference, Financing Higher Education, Kuala Lumpur, September 2012.
  • • “Taxing the Brain Drain: Policy Issues”, Crawford School Forum, Taxing the Brain Drain, Australian National University, Canberra, July 2012.
  • • “Higher Education Financing and Income Inequality”, presented to the 35th PAFDA conference, Human Capital and Economic Growth, Vancouver, Canada, June 2012.
  • • “How many jobs is 23,510 Really?, Australian Labour Market Research Workshop, University of Canberra, February, 2012.
  • • “Evidence-based policy or policy-based evidence?”, Science Meets Policymakers Annual Conference, National Museum, February, Canberra, February, 2012.
  • • “Government as a risk manager”, to Commonwealth Department of Finance and Reregulation, Canberra, February, 2012.
  • • “Thailand’s Student Loans Policy”, presented to the Thai Update 2011, Australian National University to the Parliamentary Enquiry into Clean Energy Bill, Canberra , October 2011.
  • • “How many jobs is 23,510 really?”, to the Crawford School Dialogue, Climate Change Policy, Crawford School, Australian National University, September, 2011.
  • • The potential for income contingent loans for government policy, Commonwealth Department of Finance and Reregulation, Canberra, August, 2011.
  • • Government as risk manager, Commonwealth Department of Attorney-General’s Worksop, The Innovation Agenda. July 2011.
  • • “Income Contingent Loans for Social and Economic Progress: Conceptual Issues and Design Challenges” to the Academy of Social Sciences Workshop The Great Risk Shift? Examining the Institutionalisation of Individualism in Australian society, December, UQ, Brisbane.
  • • “Student Loans and the Financial Crisis”, to the Annual Wellington Group Forum, international higher education issues, Sydney, December, 2008.
  • • Presentations on Colombian Student Loan Policy to the Colombian Department of Education and Skills, Bogota, Columbia, February and July 2008.
  • • Presentations to the Australian Government (Bradley) Review of Higher Education (March – October, 2008).
  • • Presentations to the Government Enquiry into National Innovation Policy, March and April, 2008.
  • • “Summarising the Debate on Thai Loan Scheme Possibilities”, to the ANU/DPU conference, Higher Education Financing in South and East Asia, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2008.
  • • “Australia’s Income Contingent Loan System”, to the ANU/DPU conference, Higher Education Financing in South and East Asia, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2008.
  • • “Thailand Student Loans: Towards Reform”, to the ANU/DPU conference, Higher Education Financing in South and East Asia, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2008.
  • • “Income contingent student loans”, to the UNESCO Conference, Higher Education in Latin America, Carthegna, Colombia, July 2008.
  • • ‘What does the spread of FEE-HELP to the private sector mean?’, to the one day workshop “An Analysis of FEE-HELP in the Private tertiary Education Sector”, convened by the Crawford School of Economics and Government in conjunction with the Melbourne Institute, ANU, December, 2007.

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Watch Bruce give the 2014 inaugural Cunningham Lecture to the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia: 
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