Past Events
The Real Costs of AUKUS
Event Type: Wide/Public Interest
Date: Monday Jul 20, 2026, 6:00 pm
The launch of a new issue of Australian Foreign Affairs.
For further details please visit the event website here.
View...Safeguard Mechanism in Practice: Lessons for Reform - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: Wide/Public Interest
Date: Friday Jul 17, 2026, 11:30 am
This webinar will explore early corporate responses to Australia’s reformed Safeguard Mechanism and consider the implications of these developments in light of the forthcoming statutory review.
For further details please visit the event website here.
View...How Economists can Communicate with Clarity and Impact
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Jul 16, 2026, 5:00 pm
🎤 Join us for a conversation with Katrina Ell, Vice President - Senior Economist, Mastercard ANZ
👥🛠️ This discussion will explore how economists can communicate with clarity and influence; covering economic storytelling in fast-paced market environments, communicating complex ideas to broad audiences, and navigating career opportunities beyond traditional economics roles.
🍹Networking over light refreshments following the discussion
Limited Places!
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View...Food Price Inflation and Cost Challenges in the US Food System: Insights for Australia
Date: Thursday Jul 16, 2026, 12:30 pm
🍎 Food prices surged around the world after COVID; but what’s really driving food inflation?
🌾 Join Ricky Volpe, economist at Cal Poly and former USDA researcher, as he explores the forces shaping food prices across global supply chains.
💡 Learn how labour, energy, transport and global disruptions affect food affordability in Australia and beyond.
This event is brought to you by AARES
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View...Is this the End of Wine as we know it?
Event Type: Wide/Public Interest
Date: Wednesday Jul 15, 2026, 5:30 pm
Join Max Allen, Brian Croser and other wine industry experts for a glass of wine and a panel discussion going beyond the headlines to dissect the current global wine crisis.
For further details please visit the event website here.
View...Young Economists Queensland Branch AGM - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Jul 15, 2026, 8:00 am
The Young Economists Queensland Branch
Issues notice and invites all members to join us for the
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM)
Wednesday 15 July 2026
Teams meeting commencing 8:00 am
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View...Post ACE Celebration
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Friday Jul 10, 2026, 4:45 pm
From: Australian Capital Territory
ESA ACT is pleased to invite its membership to celebrate the success of the ACE 2026 Conference. Join us for a drink and a chat with colleagues as we reflect on the huge benefits of taking time to discuss, debate and share the contemporary issues in Economics.
See you at UCX Bar at the University of Canberra.
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View...Alumni Evenings with Jamie Cross
Event Type: Wide/Public Interest
Date: Thursday Jul 9, 2026, 5:30 pm
Associate Professor Jamie Cross asks: What do war, oil shocks and trade restrictions actually mean for Australia?
For further details please visit the event website here.
View...3rd Macro Development Workshop
Event Type: Partner Event
Date: Thursday Jul 9, 2026, 12:00 am
You are warmly invited to submit a paper for the 3rd Macro Development Annual Workshop. The Economics Discipline Group at Deakin University is organising the 3rd Macro Development Workshop in Melbourne, Australia from 9–10 July 2026. This annual workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in development issues from a macro perspective to share and discuss ideas, present research, and network with others who have similar interests.
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Eminent Speaker Dinner - Alan Auerbach
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Jul 8, 2026, 6:15 pm
From: Australian Capital Territory
ESA ACT is thrilled to invite you to a special dinner event with Professor Alan Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley.
He will present a talk on the Future of U.S. Economic Policy.
During the second Trump Administration, U.S. economic policy so far has included several strong steps, some of which represent sharp breaks from past practice.
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View...Launching the archive of the UN Centre for Transnational Corporations: The struggle to put people before profit - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: Wide/Public Interest
Date: Tuesday Jul 7, 2026, 6:00 pm
Melbourne Law School are pleased to announce a webinar launching the archive of the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), bringing together Wanshu Cong, Caitlin Murphy, Kalika Mehta, River Baars, and Juliana Rodrigues de Senna introduced by André Dao and Shahd Hammouri with concluding remarks by Sundhya Pahuja. The discussion revisits the UNCTC’s history as part of the broader struggle to put people before profit, tracing its origins in Global South resistance to corporate power and its attempt to develop international tools for regulating transnational corporations.
For further details please visit the event website here.
View...Deal or No Deal? Designing Household Investment Policies for Impact and Equity
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Jul 1, 2026, 12:30 pm
🔋 Governments are increasingly using incentives to encourage household investments; but what makes these programs effective and fair?
🏠 Join Rohan Best as he explores how policy design shapes investment outcomes, cost effectiveness and inequality.
💡 Drawing on recent research and examples such as the Cheaper Home Batteries Program, discover how smarter incentives can deliver greater impact and equity.
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View...ESA Young Professionals - After Work Drinks
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday Jun 30, 2026, 5:30 pm
The Economic Society of Australia, Victoria’s Young Professional Network, invites you to our after work drinks event featuring guest speaker Matthew Bowes.
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View...WEN: Building Your Personal Brand
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday Jun 30, 2026, 5:30 pm
From: Australian Capital Territory
WEN Grounds for Growth - Skills workshop : Building Your Personal Brand
The Women in Economics Network ACT Branch is pleased to invite WEN ACT members to attend our inaugural skills workshop, focussed on Building Your Personal Brand. The interactive session, led by Dr Fiona Scotney, will be held from 5.30PM on Tuesday 30 June at the National Press Club.
Refreshments provided.
Numbers are limited so register fast to avoid missing out!
This is a free, in-person only event.
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View...YEN Event: Python coding & Machine learning for Economists
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Friday Jun 26, 2026, 8:45 am
Join YEN for a hands-on workshop designed to introduce economists, students, and early-career professionals to Python and Machine Learning, with a focus on practical applications in economics.
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View...2026 ESA QLD AGM
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Jun 24, 2026, 5:30 pm
2026 ESAQLDAGM
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View...How people perceive and respond to climate risk
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Jun 24, 2026, 12:30 pm
🌏 Climate change is reshaping risks across our economy and communities — but how accurately do people perceive those risks?
🧠 Join Omid Ghasemi, behavioural scientist at UNSW's Institute for Climate Risk & Response, as he explores why climate risk perceptions often differ from expert assessments.
💡 Learn how personal experience, emotions and cognitive biases shape climate risk perceptions, and what this means for communication, policy and adaptation.
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View...IEA World Congress, Belgrade
Event Type: Partner Event
Date: Monday Jun 22, 2026, 12:00 am
WEN QLD 2026 Annual General Meeting
Date: Thursday Jun 18, 2026, 6:00 pm
The 2026 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Women in Economics Network (WEN) Queensland branch will be held on Thursday 18 th June 2026 at 6:00pm at Covent Garden, The Houlburn Room, 142 Boundary St, West End, 4101
QLD.
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View...Eminent Speaker Series: Prof. Anna Salomons - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Jun 18, 2026, 4:00 pm
What Makes New Work Different from More Work? This talk presents new insights on the role of expertise in new work - defined as novel occupational roles that have emerged as technological and economic conditions evolved, based on newly available 1940 and 1950 Census Complete Count files and confidential America Community Survey data from 2011-2023.
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View...An Evolving Record
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Jun 17, 2026, 5:30 pm
From: Australian Capital Territory
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Economic Society of Australia with the publication of the Centennial History of the Economic Society of Australia, by Dr Alex Millmow.
An Evolving Record : A Cenntennial History of the Economic Society of Australia
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View...The Invisible Mind - The Economics of AI
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Jun 17, 2026, 8:30 am
🚀 This flagship event brings together leading economists, policymakers and industry experts to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the economy.
✨ Moving beyond the hype, the conference explores AI’s impacts on productivity, jobs, markets and public policy.
🍺🍸 Connect with peers and industry leaders throughout the day, and over networking drinks at this in-person event
Sold Out. You may join the wait list by emailing admin@esansw.org.au
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View...Unlocking Higher Education Pathways VIC
Event Type: Wide/Public Interest
Date: Thursday Jun 11, 2026, 11:30 am
Join CEDA’s Unlocking Higher Education Pathways VIC to better bridge universities, vocational training, and industry readiness.
For further details please visit the event website here.
View...AI is NOT being Hyped Enough! - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Jun 10, 2026, 12:30 pm
⭐ AI is already reshaping the economy; but are we still underestimating what comes next?
📈 Join Dr Jamie Hall, former Google Brain researcher behind early LLMs, as he argues the world is still underestimating AI’s economic impact.
⚖️ Drawing on experience in AI and economics, this talk explores why the biggest impacts on productivity, jobs, competition and policy may still lie ahead.
💡 This special talk is a precursor to The Invisible Mind: The Economics of AI conference on 17 June.
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View...WEN Mentoring End of Celebration
Date: Tuesday Jun 9, 2026, 6:00 pm
You’re warmly invited to our End of Mentoring Program Celebration, a chance to reflect, connect, and celebrate the WEN QLD 2025/2026 mentoring journey together.
Not sure what our program is about? Come along to meet current and past mentors and mentees.
What to expect:
- A fireside chat about the mentoring/mentee experience.
- Speed mentoring session to connect in a relaxed, informal format.
- Time to network and celebrate the program’s close.
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