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Findings from NAPCAN child protection survey
Rosanna Martinello | September 30, 2010Last year, NAPCAN conducted a national survey to gauge community attitudes to child abuse and neglect. Our Survey results reveal that far, far too many people say they would not take any formal action if they think a child is being abused or neglected.
We surveyed 22,000 people, which made it the biggest survey of its kind in Australia. Despite being a well-educated, interested group who were reasonably knowledgeable about child abuse as an issue, less than half the respondents said they would take action to protect the child by ringing the child protection authorities or the police. Even more alarming, if a child disclosed sexual abuse, only a third of respondents would call the police!
Why are people so hesitant to step in to protect a child?
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Old and new sources of growth: the roles of trade and investment
Jonathan Coppel | September 28, 2010I was recently very pleased to participate in GAP’s National Economic Review: Australia’s Annual Growth Summit 2010, and to return to Sydney, the fabulous city that I still call home.
However the organisers gave me a very challenging task; to describe how to improve Australia’s growth performance.
This is challenging because Australia has just clocked-up nearly two decades of consecutive growth, sailing through the Asian financial crisis and the bust of the IT bubble. And now it has even managed to navigate relatively unscathed through the deepest global financial and economic crisis in our lifetime.
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Standards underpin trade and investment policy
Damian Fisher | September 28, 2010On 17 September 2010 it was my pleasure on behalf of Standards Australia to present at the GAP National Economic Review: Australia’s Growth Summit 2010. This is a summary of my remarks which focused on highlighting the importance of Standards and how they help foster and underpin international trade and investment.
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Welcome Address to the GAP National Economic Review: Australia’s Annual Growth Summit 2010
Eric Roozendaal | September 27, 2010On 17 September 2010 I was delighted to deliver the welcoming address to the National Economic Review 2010: Australia’s Annual Growth Summit and welcome the speakers and delegates to Sydney and to the NSW Parliament. Following is a summary of that address:
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The Outlook for Australian Trade in the 21st Century
Prof Andrew Leigh | September 27, 2010Transcript of the address delivered by the Hon. Andrew Leigh MP to the Global Access Partners National Economic Review: Australia’s Annual Growth Summit on 17 September 2010.
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Getting more Bang for the Buck: Markets, Prices, Competition and the Role of Government
Louise Sylvan | September 27, 2010Louise Sylvan presented a keynote address to the GAP National Economic Review: Australia’s Annual Growth Summit on 17 September 2010. The following is based on her speaking notes.
There are three key areas – that I believe are critical for economic growth and where governments clearly play an important, influential role. The first is competition. In my view, the best way to get the most bang for the consumer buck is good competition.
That is why the micro-economic reforms of the 1980s and ‘90s were so effective in helping to increase our productivity and thus our living standards. Australian markets became much more open, products from countries with an advantage in producing them came onto our markets and spurred much stronger competition or a focus on products in Australia that could be delivered with advantage here.
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Australia and Mexico – so far yet so close
Jess Chalker | September 24, 2010As trading partners, Australia and Mexico are beginning to go steady. But with speculations that Mexico is on the brink of failed state status, could this become a bad romance? It certainly doesn’t seem that way…
Just last year, Australia and Mexico’s two-way merchandise trade was worth $2 billion. Our people-to-people links are growing stronger, there are more opportunities for bilateral trade on the horizon than ever before and education links are flourishing; with more and more Australian and Mexican students taking advantage of our countries’ reciprocal education programs.
Multilaterally our union is strong too, as we continue to work harmoniously on issues such as climate change, whaling, and in forums, including the United Nations, G20, WTO and APEC.
Clearly, the Australia-Mexico relationship shows much promise. Still, many pundits would have you believe that our partner is unsteady on its feet.
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A Prescription for Australian Innovation
Martin Duursma | September 24, 2010The following is based on the speech delivered at the Global Access Partners National Economic Review: Australia’s Annual Growth Summit, 17 September 2010, by Martin Duursma, CTO Office Chair, Vice President of Citrix Labs, Citrix Systems.
Let me frame the discussion with a couple of statements:
- The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
- Failure is good.
Today all of us find ourselves in an Australia that is one of the leading economies in the OECD, in large part due to our good fortune with our resources boom. But, is this a long term condition? Indeed if you think about the word ‘boom’, isn’t it usually followed by the word ‘bust’?
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Dousing the Beacon
joseph | September 23, 2010Al-Manar, the Lebanese based television station associated with Hezbollah is currently under investigation by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), for programmes broadcast into Australia.
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Economics & Psychology: A marriage of necessity
Bob Cummins | September 20, 2010The following is a transcript of the keynote lunchtime presentation to the National Economic Review 2010: Australia’s Annual Growth Summit, Parliament House, Sydney, 17th September 2010, delivered by Professor Robert A. Cummins.
I’d like to share with you a short-story, with six chapters.
CHAPTER 1
Let me take you back to the start of biological time; back to the start of life on earth. When the first strands of DNA were formed, they created genes – very selfish genes. These genes had a single purpose – to reproduce their own kind. So, the process of evolution was a battle-ground between these genes, each in a race to produce a better host – that is, to produce an animal that was better at making and raising babies than the competition.
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Green & Gold Issues
patrickcallioni | September 20, 2010I am writing this as I attend the National Economic Review 2010, at Parliament House in Sydney. -
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World Computer Congress Brisbane 2010
editor | September 20, 2010World Computer Congress Brisbane 2010, 20-23 September 2010. FULL DETAILS >>