Window on Economics
A series of six seminars exploring how economic and social policy interact on issues of social justice

Registrations are now closed

NCOSS, downstairs, 66 Albion Street, Surry Hills

• Steve Burrell
• Dr John Buchanan
• Flora Gill
• Dr Gül Izmir
• Dr Ralph Lattimore
• Sharon Wall
• Stuart Wilson
• Dr Jongsay Yong

Jody Broun

Jody is a Yindjibarndi woman who was born in Perth, her family come from the Pilbara region in North West Australia. Jody has a Diploma of Teaching, 1984, from the Western Australian College of Advanced Education, a Bachelor of Education, 1986, from Edith Cowan University (WA) and a Masters of Philosophy, 1992, from the University of Western Australia.

Jody taught at the Clontarf Aboriginal College from 1986 until 1993. She was a Policy Officer, with the Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority, WA, Executive Director for the Aboriginal Housing and Infrastructure, WA Department of Housing and Works and Director of Equal Opportunity in Public Employment (WA). Jody is currently the Deputy Director General of the NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs

Jody is also a respected artist. Her work has been exhibited around Australia and internationally in Kyoto, Japan and London. In 1998 she won the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award for her painting "Whitefellas Come to Talk 'bout Land".

Jody has 4 children aged between ten and twenty and 3 step children.

Steve Burrell
Steve Burrell is the National Affairs Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, responsible for coverage of Federal and NSW state politics and policy, economics and other national affairs issues.

He has previously been a senior economics writer and columnist for the Herald, winning a Walkley Award for Social Equity Journalism.

Prior to his current stint on the Herald, Steve was Deputy Editor of the Australian Financial Review for four years, after serving as Economics Editor and Tokyo Bureau Chief for that paper.

He also spent six years in the Canberra Press Gallery with the AFR and the Herald, as deputy Canberra bureau chief and senior economics writer.

Before moving into journalism in his late 20s, he did a stint in the Federal Treasury, where he worked on the Hawke Government's Tax Reform Task Force, and in the Australian Bureau of Statistics,

He has a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney, majoring in political economy and economic history, and did postgraduate work in economics at the Australian National University, when such things were still free.

He has written and contributed to several books, with a focus on economics and public policy and, in addition to his Walkley, has won the Citibank Pan-Asian Journalist of the Year and European Union Visiting Journalist Award.

He has never worked for Rupert Murdoch or Kerry Packer, and has no intention of doing so.

Dr John Buchanan BA LLB GradDipEcon ANU PhD
Before his appointment as Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Teaching (ACIRRT), John held the position of Director of Policy Research in the Commonwealth Department of Industrial Relations. He has conducted research in the areas of micro-economic reform, local employment initiatives, performance pay, executive remuneration and the industrial relations system.

John has also worked for the trade union movement as a researcher, examining the nature of operation of performance pay systems. He was part of the project team that undertook the first Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (AWIRS). His primary research interest is in how organisations respond to changes in the external economic and policy environment.

In recent years John's research interests have focused on changes associated with the demise of the classical wage earner model of employment. He is especially interested in new approaches to integrating industrial relations, social and economic policies to achieve simultaneous improvements in productivity and fairness.

Her research and publications span a number of areas, including labour economics (especially the Australian wage fixing system), economic methodology, microeconomic theory and social justice.

Dr Gül Izmir
Gül started her career as a researcher working in systems analysis and optimisation. She then worked for a major conglomerate in Turkey, managing economic and financial analysis of new investment projects.

In Australia, Gül has worked for a number of private and public sector organisations, including Memtec Ltd, Sydney Water, Environment Protection Authority, Department of Fair Trading, NSW Treasury and the Cabinet Office in senior executive roles.

Currently, Gül is the Deputy Director-General Research, Funding and Business Analysis with the Department of Community Services.

Ralph Lattimore
Dr Ralph Lattimore is Assistant Commissioner at the Productivity Commission. Other than a three year spell at Oxford researching his doctorate into savings behaviour, he has spent his time in Australia with several organisations as a researcher on a wide variety of Australian economic policy issues. His research has covered areas as diverse as innovation, the process and policy of business failure, gambling, private health insurance, regulatory reform, telecommunications competition regulation and assistance to the unemployed. He currently heads the staff in a project researching the effects of ageing on the Australian economy.

Sharon Wall
RGN RgeriN DNE BaHlthSciences MPH

Sharon is Registered General Nurse, a Registered Geriatric Nurse, has a Diploma of Nursing Education a Degree in Health Sciences and a Masters of Public Health. She has a long and respected history working in aged care and most specifically in the area of dementia and dementia care.

She has an experience portfolio which incorporates education, research and clinical practice across the residential and community care sectors. She sits and advices on a number of reference groups and steering committees and is a current member of the NSW Ministerial Advisory Committee on Ageing and a long standing member and past president of the Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG) - NSW and is a Fellow of the National Association

She has been, and continues to be, widely sought to address national and international forums on various aspects of aged care and dementia management and is published in these areas. She has been the author and co- author of a number of training resources to assist staff working in aged care to deliver 'good practice' and has developed a particular expertise in the area of dementia and challenging behaviors. She has worked extensively with people of culturally diverse backgrounds and has developed valuable resources in this area.

She has developed particular interests in the area of end of life issues and end of life decision making for older people and has recently coauthored a text on this subject.

Her client base is particularly diverse and clients include state government organisations, area health services, and NGOs and consumer organisations, (amongst others)

She is the director of Ageing by Caring Pty Ltd an aged care consultancy that aims to enhance the experience of ageing by caring, communicating and creating. She assists in doing this by providing education and training, strategic planning, policy development, review and evaluation and research development and implementation.

Books and publications by Sharon Wall

• Kratiuk, SE., Young, J.,Rawson, G., and Williams, S. (1992) A Double Jeopardy: Dementia in Clients of Non-English Speaking Backgrounds (NESB) South Western Sydney Area Health Service
• The Hostel and Care Program (Chief Author) The Dementia Study A series of case studies on Housing and Care 1994
• Kratiuk-Wall , S., Quirk, S., Heal, C and Shanley, C. The Tech Approach to Dementia Care, A Resource Kit for Caring for People with Challenging Behaviours in a residential care setting The Centre for Education and Research On Ageing 1996
• Kratiuk-Wall, Sharon. Shanley, Chris and Russell, Kate. Cultural Diversity and Dementia The Centre for Education and Research on Ageing 1997
• Milward, Dr L , Kratiuk-Wall, Ms S. Creasey, Dr H and Shanley, Mr C. Research - A Dementia Update National Health care Journal, August 1998, pge 47.
• Sammut, Anne, L and Wall, Sharon E. Dementia - Breaking through by Working with Carers. Modern Medicine Volume 42, Number 8 August 1999 pge no 18 - 28
• Wall, Sharon. Cultural Diversity and Dementia , Australian Dementia Care August / September 1999 pge 1
• Wall, Sharon. Sex and Intimacy, (an invited response) National Healthcare Journal, November 1999 Pge 13
• Hampshire, Anne. Squires, Barbara. Wall, Sharon and Thompson, Ruth. Taking Charge, Making Decisions for later Life. NSW Committee on Ageing, Benevolent Society of NSW and CERA December 1999.
• Sammut, Anne, L and Wall, Sharon E. Dementia - Breaking through by Working with Carers. Modern Medicine of South Africa, March 2000 pgs 14-22.
• Teitel, Rosette and Wall, Sharon. A Carers Quide - Helping you care for someone with Alzheimer's or other dementias Finch publishing 2003 Aust and New Zealand
• Graham, Sarah. Hampshire, Anne. Hindmarsh, Elizabeth. Squires, Barbara and Wall, Sharon. My Health, My Future, My choice: An Advance Care Directive for New South Wales 2004 ISBN 0975120409
• Shanley, Chris and Wall, Sharon Promoting Autonomy and communication through Advanced Care Planning: A Challenge for Nurses in Australia Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2004 Vol 21 Number 3 pge 32