Past Events
Women & Leadership Australia (WLA)
Event Type: Partner Event
Date: Friday May 16, 2025, 9:00 am
The Women in Economics Network SA Branch is pleased to be collaborating with Women & Leadership Australia (WLA) for the upcoming 2025 Australian Women’s Leadership Symposium in Adelaide on Thursday 16 May.
Please refer to your email for registration and discount information.
Economics and Chill
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Apr 30, 2025, 5:30 pm
Economics & Chill – Our First Networking Night!
Get ready for an unforgettable evening as the Young Economists Network of South Australia proudly presents Economics & Chill – our inaugural event designed to bring together young minds passionate about economics, good conversation, and great vibes.
Whether you're a student, recent graduate, or early-career professional, this is your chance to expand your network, make meaningful connections, and meet fellow econ-enthusiasts in a relaxed, social setting. Think less lecture, more laughter – with fun games, icebreakers, and activities to keep the energy high and the conversations flowing.
Come for the economics, stay for the chill. Let’s kick things off in style and build a community that’s as engaging as it is inspiring. Don’t miss out – we can’t wait to meet you!
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View...Panel Discussion - The Impact of Trump's Tariffs - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Apr 24, 2025, 12:00 pm
The tariffs announced on April 2nd 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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View...Where Have All the Economics Students Gone - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday Apr 8, 2025, 12:00 pm
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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View...Globalization and the Environment - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Apr 3, 2025, 12:00 pm
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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View...PANEL: Housing Affordability and Housing Policy: Where to Next? - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Friday Mar 21, 2025, 12:00 pm
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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View...Joint WEN & ESA International Women’s Day Special Event – Panel discussion & AGM (ESA & WEN)
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Mar 6, 2025, 5:00 pm
The Women in Economics Network (WEN) and the Economic Society of Australia (ESA) South Australian branches invite you to a special International Women’s Day event on Thursday 6 March, 2025.
The event will begin with the ESA & WEN SA Annual General Meeting (AGM), followed by a special panel discussion featuring leading Australian female economists from across the public sector, private sector and academia. The panel will explore their experiences in the economics profession, the importance of female leadership and key economic and policy issues. The discussion will be moderated by Dr Jacky Southcott (Co-Chair of WEN SA).
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View...Australia's Energy Future: Where Are We Headed? - ONLINE ONLY
Date: Thursday Feb 27, 2025, 12:00 pm
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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View...POSTPONED Electricity Price Trends and Energy Wallet - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Feb 20, 2025, 12:00 pm
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.
View...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
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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View...AGEW 2025
Date: Thursday Feb 6, 2025, 12:00 am
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.
View...WEN SA End of Year Celebration
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Dec 5, 2024, 5:30 pm
WEN SA End of Year Celebration on Thursday, 5th December, 2024.
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View...Green Innovation and Climate Policies, David Hémous - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Monday Dec 2, 2024, 7:00 pm
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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View...Eminent Speaker Series - Prof. Dr. Martin Peitz, University of Mannheim
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Monday Nov 18, 2024, 12:00 pm
Industrial policy and competition policy
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View...Women in Economics Network AGM - ONLINE ONLY
Date: Friday Nov 15, 2024, 12:00 pm
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.
View...Labour Market Outcomes of Graduates in Economics in Australia - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Nov 6, 2024, 12:00 pm
The discipline of economics encompasses broad skill-sets with diverse applications in employment markets and industries. Studies of labour market prospects for economics graduates are relatively dated particularly in the light of developments such as declining interest in economics in high school and university. Join the discussion with our guest speaker, Professor Ian Li, Curtin University.
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View...WEN Mentoring Retreat 2024
Date: Wednesday Nov 6, 2024, 12:00 am
The Women in Economics Network, part of the Economics Society of Australia, is hosting the 2024 Women in Economics Retreat as an in-person event, to be held from Wednesday 6 to Friday 8 November at The Hilton, Surfers Paradise, Queensland.
View...The impact of Industrial Relations changes on workers – do economists agree? - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Friday Oct 18, 2024, 12:00 pm
The last few years have seen significant legislation changes in the area of industrial relations. The prior decade also saw significant changes in firms’ hiring practices, and an explosion of platform work, considered by some to be a loophole in current labour legislation.
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View...Application for WEN (SA) Mentoring Program, 2024-25 now OPEN
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Monday Jul 29, 2024, 7:00 am
WEN (SA) Mentoring Program, 2024-25
View...ACE 2024
Date: Tuesday Jul 9, 2024, 12:00 am
Registration is CLOSED. Bookings can be managed by Contacting Us.
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View...The Economics of Women's Health: Panel Event
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Jun 26, 2024, 12:30 pm
This hybrid event is being held both in-person at Macquarie University and online via Zoom.
Did you know that women report poorer health than men in almost all domains? And 2.7 million women are missing from the labour force? This is costing the Australian economy $72 billion in lost GDP annually. If you’re interested in learning more about the current economic findings/statistics on women’s health, why we need to think about women's health and the important issues in the Australian context today, then this is the event for you!
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View...The State of Economics - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday May 28, 2024, 12:00 pm
There has been a consequential fall in the size and diversity of the economics student population in Australia. One approach to looking at the economics discipline in a structured way is to ask the following questions. Who studies economics? What is the pipeline of potential economics graduates? How are economic skills rewarded by the labour market? And what is the level of economic literacy in the community? Some high-level answers to these questions are provided in a summary of the current ‘state of economics’.
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View...WEN (SA) event: Fireside chat featuring Danielle Wood, Chair of the Productivity Commission
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday May 23, 2024, 12:00 pm
Invitation to Women in Economics Network event: Fireside chat featuring Danielle Wood, Chair of the Productivity Commission
The Women in Economics Network (WEN) and BDO invite you to a lunch time panel with Danielle Wood, Dr Jacky Southcott, and Lisa Carlin. The panel will be moderated by Dr Tania Dey.
Panellists will share their journey in the economics profession. Danielle will share her journey to becoming Chair of the Productivity Commission. Speakers will discuss the importance of women in leadership positions as well as key economics and policy issues.
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View...Eminent Speaker Series: Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of NY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday May 22, 2024, 12:00 pm
FDI and Superstar Spillovers: Evidence from firm-to-firm transactions
Using firm-to-firm transactions, we show that starting to supply a 'superstar' firm (large domestic firms, exporters and multinationals) boosts productivity by 8% in the medium run.
Join us for this Member-Only event which is part of ESA's Eminent Speaker Series
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View...WEN SA Career event
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday May 1, 2024, 5:30 pm
WEN SA career event.
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