15th Biennial Conference
Connecting Communities: Canada, Australia and New Zealand
4-7 July 2010
University of New England - Armidale, NSW, AUSTRALIA
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15th Biennial Conference 4-7 July 2010 University of New England - Armidale, NSW, AUSTRALIA |
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Federation Dialogue Series The Federation Dialogue Series brings together eminent Canadians and Australians to discuss issues of interest to both countries. The format of the dialogues is the 'pairing' of two high-profile speakers from the two nations with a locally based moderator chairing the event. The ACSANZ Conference organising committee is pleased to present the 2010 Federation Dialogue titled, "Climate Change & Federalism: Canada and Australia". Please see speakers details below. Venue / Date / Time: Armidale Town Hall, 7.00pm, Monday 5th July. Proudly sponsored by the Canadian High Commission, Canberra.  Tom CourchenePhD, Economics (Princeton) Thomas J. Courchene was born in Wakaw, Saskatchewan, and was educated at the University of Saskatchewan (Honours BA, 1962) and Princeton University (Ph.D., 1967). From 1965 to 1988 he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Courchene spent the fall term of 1986 as a visiting Professor at Ecole nationale d'administration publique (Montreal). For the academic year 1987/88, he occupied the John P. Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies at York University. In 1988, he accepted the Directorship of Queen's new School of Policy Studies (1988-92). Currently, Courchene is the Jarislowsky-Deutsch Professor of Economic and Financial Policy at Queen's, is a member of the Department of Economics, the School of Policy Studies and the Faculty of Law, and is Senior Scholar, Institute for Research on Public Policy in Montreal. Courchene is the author or editor of some 60 books and has published over 250 academic articles on a wide of Canadian public policy issues. These include a four volume series on Canadian monetary policy for the C.D. Howe Institute; In Praise of Renewed Federalism (C.D. Howe); Social Policy in the 1990s: Agenda for Reform (C.D. Howe) Equalization Payments: Past, Present and Future (Ontario Economic Council); Economic Management and the Division of Powers (Macdonald Royal Commission) and A First Nations Province (Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's). A collection of his recent articles appears as Rearrangements (Oakville, Mosaic Press). His 1994 book, Social Canada in the Millennium was awarded the Doug Purvis Prize for the best Canadian economic policy contribution in 1994 and his book, From Heartland to North American Region State: The Social, Fiscal and Federal Evolution of Ontario (1998, with Colin Telmer) won the inaugural Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian Public Policy. His on-going research interests include, in addition to the above areas, financial deregulation, the political economy of Canadian federalism, and comparative federal systems, climate change and the knowledge based economy. Dr. Courchene was Chair of the Ontario Economic Council from 1982 to 1985, has been a Senior Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute (1980-99), is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (elected 1981) and is a Past President (1991/92) of the Canadian Economics Association. He has received Honourary Doctorates of Laws from the University of Western Ontario (1997), the University of Saskatchewan (1999), and the University of Regina (2007). On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the University of Saskatchewan (2007) Courchene was selected as one of the 100 Alumni of Influence. He is a recipient of the Molson Prize for lifetime achievement in the Social Sciences and Humanities (1999). His latest book A State of Minds: Toward a Human Capital Future for Canadians was published in 2001 by the Institute for Research on Public Policy (Montreal). In April of 1999, Thomas Courchene was invested as an Officer in the Order of Canada. Clive Hamilton Clive Hamilton is an Australian author and public intellectual. In June 2008 he was appointed Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, a joint centre of the Australian National University, Charles Sturt University and the University of Melbourne. For 14 years, until February 2008, he was the executive director of The Australia Institute, a progressive think tank he founded. He holds an arts degree from the Australian National University (majoring in history, psychology and pure mathematics) and an economics degree from the University of Sydney (majoring in economics and government, with first class honours in the former). He completed a doctorate at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex with a thesis titled ‘Capitalist Industrialisation in Korea’. Before establishing The Australia Institute he taught in the Graduate Program in the Economics of Development at the ANU then joined the Australian Public Service, first with the Bureau of Industry Economics and then at the newly formed Resource Assessment Commission. He also worked as a resource economist in Indonesia. Clive has held visiting academic positions at Yale University, the University of Sydney, the Australian National University, the University of Technology, Sydney, and the University of Cambridge. He has published on a wide range of subjects but is best known for his books, a number of which have been best-sellers. They include Growth Fetish (2003), Affluenza (with Richard Denniss, 2005), What’s Left: The death of social democracy (2006), Silencing Dissent (edited with Sarah Maddison, 2007) and Scorcher: The dirty politics of climate change (2007). His latest book, titled The Freedom Paradox: Towards a post-secular ethics, was published by Allen & Unwin on 1 August 2008. In June 2009 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his service to public debate and policy development, and in December 2009 he was the Greens candidate in the by-election for the federal seat of Higgins. Jim Maher (Moderator)The Moderator for the Federation Dialogue is Dr. Jim Maher, Lecturer in Political Science at the University of New England. Jim holds a BA and Dip. Ed from the University of Newcastle, a M.Litt from the University of New England and a Ph.D in Political Science (Comparative) from the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada (2003). His thesis, written under the supervision of Professor Roger Gibbins, was entitled "Regional Health Authorities and Federalism: Australia and Canada." Jim has held the position of Foundation Chairman of the former New England Area Health Service Board (1996-2000), the Armidale and District Hospital Board (1985-90) and he is currently the Deputy Mayor of the Armidale Dumaresq Council, having been elected to Council in March 2004 and again in September 2008. He is an academic advisor to the Constitution Education Fund of Australia (the only one from a non-metropolitan university) and is regularly called upon to provide political comment for media in Australia and Canada. He has also organised a number of conferences at UNE on the workings of the Australian Parliament. Jim has given keynote addresses and conference papers in Canada, USA and Australia and has taught at universities and post secondary colleges in these countries, as well as teaching in NSW secondary schools for 8 years. At UNE he teaches Comparative Federalism: Australia, USA and Canada and Australian Politics and he has taught units in Health Policy, Business Government Relations, as well as others. Jim is the Convenor of the 2010 Federation Dialogue and the 2010 15th ACSANZ Biennial Conference. |
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