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Introduction:
Registration begins at 8.45 on Thursday, December 6, 2007 in the second-floor (Level 2) foyer of the
General Purpose Building (GP)
which is on the West Campus of the University of Newcastle (click previous link for a map).
The official program commences at 9.30 and two lecture rooms in the immediate vicinity are
of the Level 2 foyer are being used: (a) GP Lecture Room 1.1; and (b) GP Lecture Room 1.2
Abstracts:
Program:
Thursday, December 6, 2007
The Keynote sessions are of 45 minutes in duration. The parallel session papers are
20 minutes for each presentation plus 10 minutes following each paper for questions and
discussion.
| 8.30-9.15 |
Registration - GP Building Second Floor (Level 2) Foyer, West Campus with
tea/coffee available.
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| 9.15-9.20 |
Official Welcome from Professor Bill Mitchell, Director of the Centre
of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), University of Newcastle, Australia. GP 1.1
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| Session 1: |
Parallel Session A - GP 1.1
Chair: Graham Wrightson |
Parallel Session B - GP 1.2
Chair: N/A |
| 09.20-9.50 |
Labour market reform and labour mobility within cities:
have the Hartz reforms succeeded?
Anthea Bill, Bill Mitchell and Riccardo Welters, CofFEE, University of Newcastle
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No parallel session.
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| 9.50-10.20 |
Dutch institutional reforms since the 1980's: a critical assessment of the
OECD institutional indicators
Ruud Gerards, Manuel Mullers and Joan Muysken, CofFEE-Europe, University of Maastricht.
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No parallel session.
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| 10.20-10.50 |
Morning Tea - GP Level 2 Foyer |
| Session 2: |
Parallel Session A - GP 1.1
Chair: Martin Watts |
Parallel Session B - GP 1.2
Chair: Gorica Trajkovic |
| 10.50-11.20 |
Potential for the creation of socially meaningful employment across the Australian landscape
Emma Allen, CofFEE, University of Newcastle.
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Labour market competition, Coalition industrial relations reform and the demise
of the collective principle
Greg Smith, University of New England, Australia.
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| 11.20-11.50 |
Local Government and Local Employment Development
Julie Douglas, School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia.
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Labour's Evacuation from the Fordist System: The future of paid
work in "post-industrial" society
Robert LaJeunesse, CofFEE, University of Newcastle.
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| Session 3: 11.55-13.00 |
Feature address
Room: GP 1.1
Chair: Bill Mitchell
Thoughts on regional development in Australia
Tom Uren, former Federal Minister for Urban and Regional Development.
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| 13.00-14.00 |
Lunch - GP Level 2 Foyer |
| Session 4: |
Parallel Session A - GP 1.1
Chair: James Juniper |
Parallel Session B - GP 1.2
Chair: Riccardo Welters |
| 14.00-14.30 |
Comparative Measurement of Unemployment Revisited
Gennadi Kazakevitch, Department of Economics, Monash University.
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How the Workchoices and Welfare to Work reforms are affecting people in one region of NSW: Preliminary findings
Sandy Darab and Yvonne Hartman, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Southern Cross University.
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| 14.30-15.00 |
Precariousness:strategies and practices that increase the costs of job loss
Sally Weller, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University.
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Human resources or human beings: The effects of Workchoices on workers
Peter Kriesler and John Nevile, Centre for Applied Economic Research, UNSW.
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| 15.00-15.30 |
Full employment does not mean low unemployment
Bill Mitchell, CofFEE, University of Newcastle and Joan Muysken, CofFEE-Europe, University of Maastricht.
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Activating the unemployed: exploring impacts for disadvantaged jobseekers
Daniel Perkins, Research and Policy Centre, Brotherhood of St Laurence.
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| 15.30 - 16.00 |
Afternoon Tea - GP Level 2 Foyer |
| Session 5: 16.00-16.45 |
Feature address
Room: GP 1.1
Chair: Joan Muysken
Full employability: a failed paradigm
Professor Bill Mitchell, Director, CofFEE, University of Newcastle.
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| Session 6: |
Parallel Session A - GP 1.1.
Chair: Beth Cook |
Parallel Session B - GP 1.2
Chair: Emma Allen |
| 16.45-17.15 |
Leveraging training outcomes on public construction projects
Siobhan Austen and Richard Seymour, Curtin University.
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Beware the forks in the road: Trifurcation of "flexible" career paths in the Australian higher education sector
Andrew Nadolny, School of Economics, Politics and Tourism, University of Newcastle.
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| 17.45 |
End of Day 1 Sessions -
Shuttle available back to city in preparation for Dinner
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| 19.00 for 19.30 |
Conference Dinner - Surtaj Restaurant, 265 Hunter Street, Newcastle -
Google Map of Location.
The dinner is included in the conference registration fee. Surtaj is in Hunter Street,
Newcastle just east (towards the ocean) of the intersection with Darby Street. The restaurant
in on the first floor of the building. It is about 15 minutes walk from Noahs
on the Beach Hotel; and 5 minutes walk from the main Newcastle Railway station.
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Friday, December 7, 2007
| Session 7: |
Parallel Session A - - GP 1.1
Chair: Graham Wrightson |
Parallel Session B - - GP 1.2
Chair: Beth Cook |
| 9.15-9.45 |
A "Just Transition" to a clean-energy economy in a climate-change hot spot: the Hunter Valley coalfields of New South Wales, Australia
Geoff Evans, University of Newcastle.
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The impact of education on employment outcomes for people with mental illness
Gorica Trajkovic, CofFEE, University of Newcastle.
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| 9.45-10.15 |
A critique of knowledge-based development
James Juniper, CofFEE, University of Newcastle.
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The Job Guarantee of 1848
Victor Quirk, CofFEE, University of Newcastle.
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| Session 8: 10.15-11.00 |
Feature address
Room: GP 1.1
Chair: Bill Mitchell
The Pathology of Measuring Value: What do the Sterne Report, the economy of
the Solomon Islands, people trafficking and the up dating of the Greek national
income have in common?
Professor Marilyn Waring (Auckland University of Technology)
- Author of best selling book on unpaid work. Marilyn's talk will consider
how pathological are the rules of national income accounting, and what then are the
challenges for strategic policy making in such an environment? Does any of this have
implications for the new Rudd government?
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| 11.00-11.30 |
Morning Tea - GP Level 2 Foyer |
| Session 9: 11.30-12.15 |
Policy Panel
Room: GP 1.1
Chair: Bill Mitchell
Opportunities and Challenges arising from the new Federal policy environment
Marilyn Waring, Joan Muysken and others to be announced.
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| Session 10: |
Parallel Session A - GP 1.1
Chair: Joan Muysken |
Parallel Session B - GP 1.2
Chair: Martin Watts |
| 12.15-12.45 |
Identifying functional regions in Australia using
hierarchical aggregation techniques
Bill Mitchell, Anthea Bill and Martin Watts, CofFEE, University of Newcastle.
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Rethinking job creation schemes: The StepUP Pilot in the UK
Beth Cook, CofFEE, University of Newcastle.
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| 12.45-13.15 |
Multi-level disadvantage in regional Australia
Scott Baum, Griffith University, Anthea Bill and Bill Mitchell, CofFEE, University of Newcastle.
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Valuing the role of care in ageing societies
Emma Allen and Beth Cook, CofFEE, University of Newcastle.
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| 13.15-14.00 |
Lunch - GP Level 2 Foyer |
| Session 11: |
Parallel Session A - GP 1.1
Chair: Riccardo Welters |
Parallel Session B - GP 1.2
Chair: Graham Wrightson |
| 14.00-14.30 |
Why can't the long term unemployed get a job?
Louise Ward, Social Policy, Job Futures.
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Crowding in or crowding out?
Stefan Kuehn, Tom Van Veen, and Joan Muysken, CofFEE-Europe, University of Maastricht.
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| 14.30-15.00 |
US welfare reform and the well-being of low-income children: cautionary tales for Australia
Sally Cowling, Uniting Church, Burnside.
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Developing spatial measures of residential segregation: An application to Sydney
Martin Watts, CofFEE, University of Newcastle.
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| 15.00 |
Conference Close - with Afternoon Tea Announcements for 2008 and Thanks.
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