New South Wales Branch
The NSW Branch hosts the Annual Conference and Symposia from time to time. It holds regular Seminars. Further details can be found here & below.
Branch AGM
The New South Wales Branch has held its AGM in early December since 2017, shifted from March/April to align with the calendar year reporting cycle to Federal Council.
Current Committee
| Position | Full Name | Mailing Address |
|---|---|---|
| President | Mladen Kovac | Centre for Advanced Analytics & Economics Environment, Energy & Science Department of Planning, Industry & Environment Level 7, 4 Parramatta Square PARRAMATTA NSW 2150 |
| President Elect | John Madden | Arche Consulting Cremorne. |
| Past President | Dr Garry Goucher | Garry Goucher & Associates NAREMBURN NSW 2065 |
| Treasurer | Roc Shi | ACRI, UTS SYDNEY NSW 2042 |
| Secretary | Mr Dean Johnson | Centre for Advanced Analytics & Economics Environment, Energy & Science Department of Planning, Industry & Environment Level 7, 4 Parramatta Square PARRAMATTA NSW 2150 |
| Manager Promotion and Development | Maruge (April) Zhao |
School of Economics |
| Early Career Representative for the Federal Council |
Maruge (April) Zhao | School of Economics Level 5, Social Sciences Building University of Sydney CAMPERDOWN NSW 2006 |
| Federal Council Representative | Dr Michael Harris | Centre for Advanced Analytics & Economics Environment, Energy & Science Department of Planning, Industry & Environment Level 7, 4 Parramatta Square PARRAMATTA NSW 2150 |
| Committee (in this case, ex-officio as a Federal Councillor from NSW) | A/Prof. Tihomir Ancev | School of Economics Level 5, Social Sciences Building University of Sydney CAMPERDOWN NSW 2006 |
| Webmaster & Seminar/Webinar Organiser | Rod McInnes |
4/49 Terry Road |
Upcoming events:
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 8 December 2022 |
Panel: Jeff Bennett is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University’s Crawford School. Nick Hanley holds a Chair in Environmental and One Health Economics at the University of Glasgow. Alexander Cox is a PhD Candidate at the Australian National University’s Crawford School. |
AGM, Xmas Seminar & Drinks: Biodiversity Offsetting: the state of play Seminar Flyer |
Previous events:
| Date | Presenter | Topic | |
| 6-7 October 2022 | Various. The Symposium replaced our normal Seminar Program for 2022 | NSW Symposium: Natural Capital in the 21st Century Recording (To come) | |
| 9 December 2021 | Stuart Kells and Scott Hamilton, Melbourne University | AGM, Xmas Seminar & Drinks: Sold Down the River Webinar Flyer Webinar recording (To come) | |
| 17 November 2021 | Ross Kingwell, Chief Economist, Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre; Professor at the University of Western Australia; Chief Economist, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (Western Australia) | Australian Grains at 2040 Webinar Flyer Webinar recording (To come) | |
| 13 October 2021 | Dr Rohan Best, Macquarie University | Estimating the Impact of Rooftop Solar on Housing Markets Webinar Flyer Webinar recording (To come) | |
| 25 August 2021 | Dr Kim Houghton and Katie Bassett, Regional Australia Institute | Labour and skills are constraining regional economic growth Webinar recording | |
| 10 December 2020 | Ash Salardini, Chief Economist and General Manager Trade, National Farmers Federation | AGM, Xmas Seminar & Drinks: Is competition policy obtaining ‘good’ outcomes in our food supply chains? Webinar Recording | |
| 9 July 2020 | Lihini De Silva, Winner of the 2019 AARES NSW Undergraduate Prize | Wasting Space? The Effects of Food-Organic Composting Services on Household Waste Generation Webinar Recording | |
| 21 May 2020 | Manfred Lenzen, Integrated Sustainability Analysis, School of Physics, University of Sydney | Estimating economic damage of climate-related disasters and spillovers from COVID-19 using an input-output framework Members only. | |
| 4 December 2019 | Tim Nelson, Executive General Manager, Strategy and Economic Analysis at the Australian Energy Market Commission | AGM, Xmas Seminar & Drinks: Australia’s changing energy markets | |
| 3 October 2019 | Mladen Kovac, NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment | Lessons Learned in Developing the NSW Biodiversity Market | |
| 2 May 2019 | Alastair Fraser, University of Sydney | Intensive and Extensive Margin Responses in Electricity Conservation: How Households Respond to Financial Rewards | |
| 21 March 2019 | Dodo Thampapillai, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore | Contemporary Mainstream Economics and Contraindications for Climate Maladies | |
| 6 December 2018 | John Madden, Associate Commissioner, Productivity Commission | AGM, Xmas Seminar & Drinks: National Water Reform: What's still to be done? | |
| 18 October 2018 | Rebecca Taylor, Assistant Professor, the University of Sydney | A Mixed Bag: The Hidden Time Costs of Regulating Consumer Behavior | |
| 13 September 2018 | Jay Horton, Managing Director, Strategis Partners | Livestock Econometrics in the Age of Big Data Members Only | |
| 3 June 2018 | Manann Donoghue, Research Economist, ABARES | Certification or Certainty? Impacts of 4C Certification on Coffee Smallholder Livelihoods | |
| 14 December 2017 | Dr. Michael Harris, Senior Economist, NSW Environmental Protection Authority | AGM, Xmas Seminar & Drinks: Risk and Uncertainty in Public Decision Making | |
| 9 November 2017 | Dr Jason Crean & Dr Anthony Clark, NSW Department of Primary Industries | A new approach to monitoring drought in NSW – the Enhanced Drought Information System (EDIS) | |
| December 2016 | No Xmas Event | ||
| 29 September 2016 | Phil Townsend, PhD, Fenner School, ANU | Assessing change in rural communities | |
| 18 August 2016 | Harley Smith, Principal Economist, NSW Department of Industry | A principles-based cost-recovery framework for government investment decisions: Biosecurity | |
| 30 May 2016 | Professor Jeff Bennett, Australian National University | Managing the Environment Privately (Lunch meeting) | |
| May 2016 | Sarah Smith, University of Sydney | AGM & Seminar: The El Niño Southern Oscillation and Economic Growth in the Developing World | |
| December 2015 | Dr. Greg Hertzler, University of Sydney/Western Australia | Xmas Seminar & Drinks: The demise of Ag and Resource Economics as we know it? | |
| August 2015 | John Fountain, NSW Department of Health | Cost Benefit Analysis: Options to Protect Old Bar from Coastal Hazards | |
| June 2015 | Dr. Terry Griffin | Precision Agriculture Issues and the Evolution into Big Data | |
| April 2015 | Dr David Ubilava, University of Sydney | Rises and Falls in Primary Commodity Prices: Blame it on ENSO or Leave Them Kids Alone? | |
| November 2014 | Presenter: Jay Horton, Strategis Partners | Economic Stories of the Agri-foods Firm | |
| September 2014 | David Buckland and Harley Smith, NSW Trade and Investment | Productivity in NSW | |
| June 2014 | Russell Toth, University of Sydney | The Economics of Mobile Pastoralism in East Africa | |
| March 2014 | Elizabeth Nolan, University of Sydney | The contribution of genetic modification to changes in corn yield in the United States | |
| December 2013 | Prof. Chris O'Donnell, University of Queensland | Xmas Seminar & Drinks: An economic approach to identifying the drivers of productivity change in the market sectors of the Australian economy | |
| August 2013 | Caroline Hoisington and Laura Eadie, Centre for Policy Development | A strong economy and a healthy environment | |
| May 2013 | Prof. Chris Barrett, Cornell University | The impact of world oil price shocks on maize prices in East Africa Webinar recording | |
| April 2013 | Prof. Peter Warr, Australian National University | Agricultural research, productivity and poverty reduction in Indonesia Webinar recording | |
| December 2012 | Dodo Thampapillai, National University of Singapore | Xmas Seminar & Drinks: Towards a new way of thinking in economics | |
| August 2012 | Tom Murphy, Western Research Institute | Economic impact analysis versus cost-benefit analysis Webinar recording | |
| June 2012 | Dave Appels, Frontier Economics | Impacts of water trading in the southern Murray-Darling basin Webinar recording | |
| May 2012 | Jeff Bennett, Australian National University | Little green lies: An expose of twelve environmental myths | |
| March 2012 | Nicole Hellyer, University of Kent | Food choice, nutritional information and functional ingredients: An experimental auction employing bread | |
| December 2011 | Dr Brian Fisher, BAEconomics Pty Ltd | Xmas Seminar & Drinks: Taxing resource rents and carbon - the impact on investment decision makers | |
| September 2011 | Dr Brian Davidson, University of Melbourne | The value of water in Western Sydney | |
| August 2011 | Rod McInnes, Sydney Catchment Authority | Valuing catchments as business assets: Ending the public squalor of urban water resources | |
| July 2011 | Dr Karel Nolles, Macquarie Bank | The investment challenges and impacts facing electricity networks as a result of climate change policies | |
| March 2011 | Dr Alan Randall, University of Sydney | Some reflections on sustainability in the Murray Darling Basin | |
| December 2010 | Alexandra Lobb, NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water | Incorporating environmental risk and uncertainty into economic analysis for policy evaluation | |
| December 2010 | Laura Hohnen, NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water | Modelling cost-effective air pollution abatement: a multiple period linear programming approach in the Sydney metropolitan area | |
| July 2010 | Alex McMillan, NSW Natural Resources Commission | Lessons from recent NRC assessments of river red gum and cypress forests | |
| April 2010 | Joshua Gilroy, NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water | Natural resources and regulation with a focus on native vegetation and the kangaroo industry | |
