2016 Federal Election: experts available
Are you looking for experts to comment on specific election issues? UNSW academics are available to discuss key election policies and proposals.
Published on the 23 May 2016 by UNSW Media
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Healthcare
Alex Broom, Professor of Sociology Expert areas: Health-related issues from a social perspective (such as euthanasia) Contact: 02 93852829 | a.broom@unsw.edu.au
Professor Louisa Jorm - UNSW’s Centre for Big Data Research in Health Expert areas: using big data to reign in healthcare spending and improve the healthcare system Contact: |l.jorm@unsw.edu.au
Scientia Professor Mark Harris – UNSW Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity Expert areas: Health Care Home trial proposal and its implications for the way GPs deliver care to the chronically ill Contact: 9385 8384 | m.f.harris@unsw.edu.au
Professor Anthony Shakeshaft - UNSW’s National Drug and Alcohol Centre Expert areas: taxation measures to reduce alcohol consumption and smoking Contact: 9385 0333 | l.shakeshaft@unsw.edu.au
Professor Maree Teesson- UNSW’s National Drug and Alcohol Centre Expert areas: Are we doing enough to tackle mental health and substance use issues, which affect more than 300,000 Australians every year? Contact: 9385 0167| m.teesson@unsw.edu.au
Taxation
Associate Professor Dale Boccabella Expert areas: Can discuss taxation of trusts, fringe benefits, capital gains and corporate tax. Contact: 02 9385 3365 | 02 9874 2539 | d.boccabella@unsw.edu.au
Senior Lecturer Gordon Mackenzie Expert areas: Taxation of Superannuation, self-managed super funds. Contact: 02 9385 9521 gordon.mackenzie@unsw.edu.au
Professor Neil Warren Expert areas: Neil can provide a full assessment of the taxation implications for various sectors, public sector economics with a special focus on taxation policy and distributional issues. Contact: 02 9385 9542 | n.warren@unsw.edu.au
Associate Professor Fiona Martin Expert areas: Tax transparency of multi-national corporations, GST, charities, not-for-profits, and indigenous Australians. Contact: 02 9385 9558 f.martin@unsw.edu.au
Professor John Taylor Expert areas: International/Cross Border taxation, Corporate Tax, property taxes including Capital Gains Tax and Negative Gearing. Contact: 02 9385 3292 c.taylor@unsw.edu.au
Lecturer Rob Nicholls Expert areas: Superannuation, International Relations, regulations and governance Contact: r.nicholls@unsw.edu.au
Economics
Professor James Morley Expert areas: Macroeconomics, finance, interest rates, unemployment. Contact: 02 9385 3366 james.morley@unsw.edu.au
Professor Richard Holden Expert areas: Macroeconomic impacts, business, and employment. Contact: 02 9385 4700 | richard.holden@unsw.edu.au
Actuarial Studies
Professor Hazel Bateman Expert areas: Pensions, asset tests, any aspect of superannuation. Contact: 02 9385 3096 | h.bateman@unsw.edu.au
Professor Michael Sherris Expert areas: Superannuation and taxation. Impact of the Budget on pensions. Contact: m.sherris@unsw.edu.au
Cities
Professor Helen Lochhead Expert areas: resilient cities, sustainability, urban regeneration, planning. Contact: helen.lochhead@unsw.edu.au
Professor Bill Randolph, Director, City Futures Research Centre Expert areas: urban policy, housing Policy, housing affordability, housing quality, urban density and strategy. Contact: b.randolph@unsw.edu.au
Professor Hal Pawson, Associate Director City Futures Research Centre Expert areas: housing policy, social policy, urban policy. Contact: h.pawson@unsw.edu.au
UNSW Canberra
Senior Lecturer Lindy Edwards Expert areas: Australian politics, ideological debate, economics, feminism Contact: l.edwards@adfa.edu.au 02 6268 6250
Professor Toni Erskine Expert areas: International politics, ethics, moral agency; moral guidelines in the context of intelligence collection and cyber security, issues of moral responsibility in technologies of war. Contact: t.erskine@unsw.edu.au 02 6268 6254
Dr Sue Williamson Expert areas: Gender equality in the workplace, and public sector human resources and industrial relations, particularly enterprise bargaining, APS Contact: s.williamson@adfa.edu.au 02 626 86227
Professor Jill Slay, Director of the Australia Cyber Security Centre Expert areas: Cybersecurity, Digital Forensics, Critical Infrastructure Protection Contact: j.slay@adfa.edu.au 02 6268 8895
Professor Clinton Fernandes Expert areas: International relations, metadata, cyber security Contact: c.fernandes@adfa.edu.au 02 6268 8847
Professor Tom Frame Expert areas: Moral issues, military history, ANZAC, Centenary Contact: t.frame@adfa.edu.au 02 6268 8865
Professor Greg Austin Expert areas: Cyber security, international relations Contact: g.austin@adfa.edu.au 02 6268 8897
Dr Keith Joiner Expert areas: Strike fighter, helicopter contract, testing Contact: k.joiner@adfa.edu.au 02 626 88168
Dr Ned Dobos Expert areas: Moral issues, ethics of war and political violence Contact: n.dobos@adfa.edu.au 02 6268 6273