Fuel prices and ambient air pollution: A study of Sydney

This paper explores the short-run influence of road transport fuel prices on ambient air pollution over the period 2004–2023 for the case of Sydney, Australia.

Gender, Climate and Diversity Forum

This event will bring together academics, policy makers and program managers who are working at the intersection of climate, gender and diversity.

Disability and social insurance in Australia: Trends and correlates

This study analyses the social insurance role of the Disability Support Pension (DSP) in Australia.

Food one click away: The impact of online food delivery platforms on food security in Indonesia

Pyan Muchtar presents his research about online food delivery platform in Indonesia.

Space-time of predator proof fencing in Australian Protected Areas

Please join us for an upcoming RE&D Research Notes webinar, hosted by the Resources, Environment and Development group (RE&D), Crawford School of Public Policy.

RE&D Guest, Associate Professor Ben Cooke, will present their research insights on Space-time of predator proof fencing in Australian Protected Areas. The seminar will be facilitated by Christina Griffin.

Cash transfers and labor supply: New evidence on impacts and mechanisms

The study finds that Vietnam’s national cash transfer program does not reduce labor supply but rather shifts adults from self-employment to wage-paying jobs, likely due to older adults taking on more housework and childcare responsibilities.

2024 Indonesia Update: How Jokowi changed Indonesia

Register here for the 2024 Indonesia Update conference:

To attend in-person, please register via Eventbrite
To attend via Zoom, please register vis this link

About the 2024 conference

During a decade of governing Indonesia, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has emerged as one of the most popular, but also most polarising, political figures in the post-Reformasi period. Jokowi’s supporters have lauded his remarkable evolution from an outsider with little clout among the country’s political elite to a formidable powerbroker, pushing through hard-hitting and often controversial reforms. Jokowi’s critics, on the other hand, have assailed his government’s coercive approach to political opponents, and his pursuit of a grand economic vision at the cost of democratic freedoms and institutional integrity. Regardless of which side of the debate one is on, however, there is no denying Jokowi’s enduring popularity with a public that sees their president as a hardworking man of the people.

The 2024 Indonesia Update Conference will take a broad view of Jokowi’s legacy. To tell this story, we need to first recall the Indonesia that President Yudhoyono left behind: a stable democracy and economy, but one in which governance was characterised by policy inertia and stagnation. The Jokowi years, on the other hand, have been anything but stagnant. Instead, to hit policy targets across a range of sectors, the president and his team have pushed institutions to their limits, revealing both the weaknesses and strengths of Indonesia’s democratic rules, regulations and norms. But how far has Jokowi truly transformed Indonesia? To answer this question, the Conference will bring together experts from Australia, Indonesia, and around the world. We will examine the mark that Jokowi has left on the country’s economy, welfare, politics, security, environment, and international relations.

Are the benefits of electrification realized only in the long run? Evidence from rural India

This seminar will discuss the benefits of electrification.

Transforming Systems of Care: Launching the Caring about Care Report

We invite you to this special event to launch the newly published ‘Caring about Care’ report, authored by Elise Klein, Janet Hunt, Zoe Stains, Chay Brown, Kayla Glynn-Braun, and Mandy Yap. Join Honorary Professor June Oscar AO, Chair of the Wiyi Yani U Thangani Institute for First Nations gender justice, as well as the researchers and women involved in the research to hear about this important exploration into care work.

National CGE Modelling Workshop

The East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, ANU, and the Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University, will convene the National CGE Modelling Workshop on 9–10 September at the Weston Theatre, Crawford School of Public Policy.