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ACE 2026 - Hold the Date

ACE 2026 will be held in Canberra, ACT from 7-10 July 2026 at University of Canberra.
Awards 2025

A number of prestigious awards were bestowed upon worthy economists at ACE2025 which held in Sydney during July.
Economists eye costs of a failed energy transition

Poll 67
Poll finds support for aligning net zero, reliability and price,
Peter Martin
Responses (996)Trump's impact on the Australian Economy

Poll 66
Top economists say Trump’s policies will hit Australian economic growth and push up inflation and interest rates in the US.
Responses (38)AGEW 2025

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

Poll 65
Panellists are unanimous in believing Australia’s housing market is in crisis.
Offered a choice of 14 measures identified by the Economic Society of Australia as likely to restrain prices for buyers and renters, none of the 49 leading economists polled picked: “do nothing, the market will determine appropriate prices”.
Responses (967)Unreserved - RBA's latest release of digitised archival records

The Reserve Bank has been releasing a large volume of digitised archival records to the public through our digital archive (called Unreserved). These records span nearly 200 years of Australia’s economic, financial and social history. The latest release includes records about the work and influence of Dr HC Coombs along with additional records from the Bank’s Research Department, with much of the new information covering the period from the Bank’s ‘separation’ from the original Commonwealth Bank in 1960 through to the early 1970s.
Events
The History of the Higher Education Contribution Scheme & The Role of Academics and Economics in Public Policy
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Feb 4, 2026, 5:30 pm
The Economic Society of Australia (SA Branch), in collaboration with the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, invites you to the first public event of 2026:
The History of the Higher Education Contribution Scheme & The Role of Academics and Economics in Public Policy – with Emeritus Professor Bruce Chapman
View...IEA World Congress, Belgrade
Event Type: Partner Event
Date: Monday Jun 22, 2026, 12:00 am
Welcome
The aims of the South Australia Branch of the society are:
- To encourage the teaching and study of economics and its application in Australia
- To encourage research and public debate of economic questions
- To publish and distribute journals and other matters of interest which advance the objectives of the Society
- To encourage the employment of economists and promote the standing of the profession in the community.
All contact with the South Australia Branch Council is managed through
our Secretariat, email: admin@esasa.org.au






