The Creating a Culture of Full Employment Conference incorporated the 7th Path to Full Employment Conference and the 12th National Conference on Unemployment. It was staged at the University of Newcastle - Thursday, December 8 and Friday, December 9, 2005. The aim of the Conference was to develop approaches which will help our communities develop the necessary cultural shifts that will compel policy-makers to move our economy back to full employment.

Several international speakers attended including Dr Daniel Kostzer, Director of Macroeconomic Research and Coordination of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security of Argentina who will outline the Argentinean Heads of Household Job Guarantee approach to solving their nation's unemployment crisis and the role it has played in restoring economic stability.

The following key speakers attended:

• Daniel Kostzer, Director of Macroeconomic Research and Coordination at the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security in Argentina will be a key guest speaker this year to outline their Head of Households Job Guarantee approach to solving their nation's unemployment crisis and the role it has played in restoring economic stability.
• Dimitri Papadimitriou, President of The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and Jerome Levy Professor of Economics at Bard College;
• David Thompson, CEO, Jobs Australia;
• Professor L. Randall Wray, Research Director at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability (C-FEPS) at the University of Missouri-Kansas City; and
• Scott T. Fullwiler, Assistant Professor of Economics and James A. Leach Chair in Banking and Monetary Economics at Wartburg College in Iowa.
• Warren B. Mosler Associate Fellow, Centre for Economic and Public Policy, Cambridge University, U.K.