Immediately following the election, Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher began flagging that budget challenges might delay some of their desired spending increases. A big challenge confronts them: will inflation and rising interest rates finally force the political class to tackle some of the big economic and budget challenges? Is our political system up for the challenge?
Professor of Public Policy and Director, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University
Sociologist, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney.
Author of The New Authoritarianism
Programme Co-ordinator of the Masters of Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Western Australia
Former Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives and Cabinet Minister
Pro Vice-Chancellor Arts and Academic Culture, and Professor of History, Australian Catholic University
Founder and President, Middle East Forum, publisher Middle East Quarterly Journal, (US)
Senior Research Fellow and Director, Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society Program, CIS
Professor of Economics at Stanford University; Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and Chair of the Working Group on Economic Policy, (US)
UQ-CSIRO Chair in Personalised Nanodiagnostics, Professorial Research Fellow, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland
Australia’s Ambassador to China from 2007 to 2011, Chairman & CEO of Geoff Raby and Associates Ltd based in Beijing
Senior Research Scholar, Marron Institute of Urban Management, New York University, (US)
