ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM

Saving People and the Planet: Exiting the consumptagenic system

12 November 2019 ) National Library of

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The Academy’s Annual Symposium is an opportunity for the Australian social science community to come together and champion social science research. It is a chance for CONVENORS Academy Fellows, researchers, government agencies, media, business, NGOs, and civil society to collectively recognise, and respond, to matters of national concern. ☐☐ Professor Sharon Friel FASSA (School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU) ☐☐ Dr Ashley Schram (School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU) The 2019 Annual Symposium will focus on the ‘consumptagenic system’. ☐☐ Professor Christine Parker (Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne) What is the consumptagenic system? The phrase refers to the policies, processes and modes of governance fueling environmental destruction, inequality, and poor health PRESENTERS outcomes. At the Symposium, we will turn our minds to the challenge of exiting this system. ☐☐ Professor Jane Hall FASSA FAAHMS (Academy President, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney) ☐☐ Professor Fran Baum AO FASSA FAHMS (Founding Director, Southgate Institute for Welcome to 2050. We live in a healthy, sustainable Health, Society and Equity) and equitable world – how did we get here? The focus ☐☐ Adj. Professor Terry Slevin (CEO, Public Health Association of Australia) of the day will be on the role of the social sciences ☐☐ Adj. Professor Nicole Turner (Chairperson, Indigenous Allied Health Australia; Aboriginal Workforce Engagement Manager, Rural Doctors’ Network) in helping to save people and the planet by moving ☐☐ Professor Fiona Haines FASSA (Professor of Criminology, University of Melbourne) beyond the consumptagenic system. With an emphasis ☐☐ Dr Amanda Cahill (CEO, The Next Economy) on the pathways via which this has happened, and ☐☐ Mr Tim Hollo (Executive Director, The Green Institute) not on describing the problem, this event day will be ☐☐ Dr Cassandra Goldie (CEO, Australian Council of Social Service) ☐☐ Professor Jolanda Jetten FASSA (Professor of Social Psychology, ARC Laureate interactive, engaging and finish with a call to action. Fellow, University of Queensland) ☐☐ Professor Miranda Stewart (Director of Tax, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne) ‘Consumptagenic system’ - an integrated network of market-based policies, ☐☐ Dr Christian Downie (ARC DECRA Fellow, School of Regulation and Global processes, governance, and modes of understanding that fuel unequal, Governance, Australian National University) unhealthy and environmentally destructive production and consumption. ☐☐ Ms Emma Herd (CEO, Investor Group on Climate Change) ☐☐ Dr Richard Denniss (Chief Economist, ) ☐☐ Professor Neil Gunningham FASSA (Professor of Regulation and Global REGISTER: Governance, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University) (PUBLIC) https://www.trybooking.com/533793 ☐☐ Mr Paul Barclay (Presenter, Radio National Big Ideas; Walkely Award winning journalist and broadcaster) (FELLOWS) https://www.trybooking.com/533708 ☐☐ Professor Sharon Friel FASSA (School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU) ☐☐ Dr Ashley Schram (School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU) ☐☐ Professor Christine Parker (Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne)

Page 2 Page 3 SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM Tuesday, 12 November 2019 ) National Library of Australia SESSION THREE: INEQUALITY

Chair: Professor Christine Parker Tuesday, 12 November 2019 ) National Library of Australia 1:00 pm Panellists: Professor Jolanda Jetten FASSA (University of Queensland) 8.45am ARRIVAL & REGISTRATION Dr Cassandra Goldie (Australian Council of Social Services) PRESIDENT’S WELCOME Professor Miranda Stewart (University of Melbourne) 9:00 am Professor Jane Hall FASSA FAAHMS, Academy President Discussion + Audience Q&A SYMPOSIUM OVERVIEW 9:10 am Professor Sharon Friel FASSA, Dr Ashley Schram & SESSION FOUR: Professor Christine Parker THE WAYS OF THE FUTURE - Young voices wrap up WHAT’S THE ISSUE? 9:25am 2:00 pm Panellists: HEALTH - Dr Ashley Schram (ANU) Professor Sharon Friel FASSA CLIMATE - Dr Christian Downie (ANU) SESSION ONE: HEALTH PANEL INEQUALITY - Dr Megan Williams (Sydney University)

Chair: Professor Jane Hall FASSA 2:45 pm AFTERNOON TEA 9:45 am Panellists: Professor Fran Baum AO FASSA FAAHMS (Flinders University) RADIO NATIONAL BIG IDEAS Adj. Prof Terry Slevin (Public Health Association of Australia) Adj. Prof Nicole Turner (Indigenous Allied Health Australia) Host: Mr Paul Barclay 3:20 pm Discussion + Audience Q&A Panellists: Ms Emma Herd (Investor Group on Climate Change) 10:45 am MORNING TEA Professor Sharon Friel FASSA (ANU) Dr Richard Dennis (The Australia Institute) SESSION TWO: CLIMATE PANEL Professor Neil Gunningham FASSA (ANU)

Chair: Professor Fiona Haines FASSA CLOSING REMARKS 4:20 pm Professor Sharon Friel FASSA, Dr Ashley Schram & Professor Christine Parker 11:15am Panellists: Professor Christine Parker (Melbourne University) Dr Amanda Cahill (Centre for Social Change & Next Economy) 4:30 pm CLOSE Mr Tim Hollo (Green Institute) 4:30 pm PRESIDENT’S DRINKS Discussion + Audience Q&A 2019 CUNNINGHAM LECTURE 12:15 pm LUNCH Losing It! Are Australian Governments Still Capable of Exercising 5:00 pm the Art of Effective Policy Making? The Hon. Marcia Neave AO

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Professor Sharon Friel FASSA Professor Christine Parker Professor of Health Equity, Director of the School Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School, of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian University of Melbourne National University Christine Parker is a Professor of Law at University Sharon Friel is Professor of Health Equity and Director of Melbourne where she teaches corporate social of the School of Regulation and Global Governance responsibility and business regulation, legal ethics, (RegNet), ANU. She is also Director of the Menzies food law and policy and animal law. Professor Centre for Health Governance ANU. She is a Fellow Parker is a socio-legal regulatory studies scholar of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia and co- who has written and researched on how and Director of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence why businesses comply with legal, social and in the Social Determinants of Health Equity. Between environmental responsibilities, and what difference 2005 and 2008 she was the Head of the Scientific Secretariat (University College regulatory enforcement makes. Her books include The Open Corporation: Business London) of the World Health Organisation Commission on Social Determinants of Self-Regulation and Democracy (2002) on corporate social responsibility, business Health. Her interests are in the political economy of health; the social determinants of compliance systems and democratic accountability of companies; and Explaining health inequities, including trade and investment, food systems, urbanisation, climate Compliance (2011, with Vibeke Nielsen). She has also written Inside Lawyers’ Ethics change. Her recent book “Climate Change and the People’s Health” was published by (with Adrian Evans, 3rd edn, 2018), an influential social critique and text on lawyers’ OUP in Jan 2019. role and conduct. Professor Parker’s current research focuses on the politics, ethics and regulation of food labelling and sustainable, healthy, fair food systems.

Dr Ashley Schram Professor Jane Hall FASSA FAAHMS Research Fellow, School of Regulation and Global Academy President; Director of Strategy, Centre Governance, Australian National University for Health Economics Research and Evaluation Ashley Schram is a Research Fellow in the School of (CHERE), Univeristy of Technology Sydney Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Jane Hall is Distinguished Professor of Health Australian National University and Deputy Director of Economics and Director of Strategy of the Centre the Menzies Centre for Health Governance (ANU). She for Health Economics Research and Evaluation at has led a programme of research on policy evaluation UTS. She received the National Health and Medical in an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in the Research Council Outstanding Contribution Award in Social Determinants of Health Equity. Her research 2017. She was named as one of Australian Financial investigates the regulation, governance, policy, and Review/Westpac 100 Women of Influence in 2016. She politics of the social determinants of health inequities. Focal areas include food is one of the most high profile health economists in Australia with an international systems, trade and investment liberalisation, and noncommunicable diseases. reputation built on both research contribution and policy analysis. She has worked across many areas of health economics, including health technology assessment, measurement of quality of life, end of life care, health workforce, the economics of primary care and funding and financing issues. She has been an active member of numerous committees and working parties and is currently a member of the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority. She established the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) in 1990 and served as Director until 2012.

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Professor Fran Baum AO FASSA FAAHMS Adj. Professor Terry Slevin Foundation Director, Southgate Institute for CEO, Public Health Association of Australia Health, Society and Equity Adjunct Professor, College of Health and Medicine, Fran Baum is Matthew Flinders Distinguished ANU Professor of Public Health and Foundation Director Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology, Curtin of the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and University Equity at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. Terry Slevin took up the role of CEO of the Public She was named in the Queen’s Birthday 2016 Health Association of Australia in May 2018. Prior Honours List as an Officer of the Order of Australia to that he was Director of Education and Research (AO) for “distinguished service to higher education at Cancer Council WA where he worked for 24 years. as an academic and public health researcher, as He has worked in senior preventive and public an advocate for improved access to community health care, and to professional health roles in government and not for profit organisations for 35 years and has organisations”. From 2009-2014 she held a prestigious Australia Research Council contributed to 80 publications in the peer reviewed literature and edited a book skin Federation Fellowship. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in cancer (Sun Skin and Health CSIRO Publishing 2014). He has developed expertise in Australia, the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and of the Australian cancer prevention, tobacco control, alcohol harm reduction, nutrition and physical Health Promotion Association. She is a past National President and Life Member of activity, cancer screening and occupational exposures contributing to cancer. He led the Public Health Association of Australia. She is past Chair and member (2005-2019) the planning of the World Cancer Congress in 2018 and contributed to the Union for of the Global Steering Council of the People’s Health Movement – a global network of International Cancer Control (UICC) for more than a decade. He has managed research health activist (www. phmovement.org).She also served as a Commissioner on the funding portfolios and been responsible for a range of preventive health mass media World Health Organisation’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health from campaigns. He is a regular contributor to health policy debate through the mass media 2005-08. and with government. Fran Baum is one of Australia’s leading researchers on the social and economic determinants of health. She holds grants from the National Health & Medical Research Council and the Australia Research Council which are considering a wide range of Adj. Professor Nicole Turner aspects of health inequities and social determinants of health. These grants include Chairperson, Indigenous Allied Health Australia an NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence on Policies for Health Equity of which she Aboriginal Workforce Engagement Manager, Rural is one of the two co-Directors. Her book, The New Public Health (4th ed. published Doctors Network January 2016 Oxford University Press), is widely cited and used in many public health Adjunct Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics, courses. Her new book Governing for Health (Oxford University Press, New York, University of January, 2019) examines how a society can be organised to best promote health. Nicole Turner is a Kamilaroi woman who currently lives on the New South Wales coast. She is one of very few qualified Aboriginal community nutritionists in Australia, Nicole is chairperson of Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA), she is also an adjunct Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics at University of Canberra. Nicole is the Aboriginal workforce Engagement Manager at Rural Doctors Network RDN . Nicole has published numerous papers in international journals and presented at several conferences around Australia and overseas on a variety of topics, especially Indigenous health.

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Nicole’s passion is nutrition and living a healthy lifestyle. She believes we need to give knowledge to our people about the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle Dr Amanda Cahill and preventing chronic diseases. She is involved with many national, state and local Director, The Next Economy committees and organisations. Amanda is the CEO of The Next Economy. Originally trained in Anthropology, Amanda has spent over Professor Fiona Haines BA(Hons), PhD, FASSA two decades working on community development Professor of Criminology, School of Social and projects across Asia, the Pacific and regional Australia. Political Sciences, University of Melbourne The focus of her work at The Next Economy is to support communities to develop more resilient, just Fiona Haines is Professor of Criminology in the School and sustainable regional economies. A large part of of Social and Political Sciences at the University this work involves supporting coal and gas affected of Melbourne, Adjunct Professor at the Regulatory communities in Australia to transition away from fossil Institutions Network at ANU and Fellow of the fuels and towards a zero emissions economy. Amanda is also a founding partner of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Her research, Zero Emissions Byron project, the former CEO of the Centre for Social Change and a which encompasses work on industrial disasters, founding committee member of the New Economy Network of Australia. Amanda has grievances and multinational enterprises, centres a PhD in Human Geography from the Australian National University and is an Adjunct on white collar and corporate crime, globalisation at the University of Queensland and an Associate of the Sydney Policy Lab at the and regulation. She is an internationally renowned expert in the area of regulation University of Sydney. and compliance with published work in the area ranging from industrial disasters, occupational health & safety and financial fraud to the impact of criminalisation of cartel conduct, challenges for regulation in the transformation of the National Mr Tim Hollo BA Hons 1 / LLB (UNSW), MEL (USyd)) Electricity Market with the introduction of household solar PV and the capacity of new governance to resolve issues of human rights violations associated with the Executive Director, The Green Institute activities of multinational corporations. Her books include The Paradox of Regulation: Tim Hollo is a highly respected environmentalist what regulation can achieve and what it cannot (Edward Elgar, 2011) and Regulatory and musician. As Executive Director of the Green Transformations: Rethinking Economy Society Interactions, (Hart Publishing), 2015, Institute, Tim has led thinking around Greens co-edited with Bettina Lange and Dania Thomas. Her major current research projects political philosophy and driven policy discussion include an analysis of how to hold multinational corporations accountable for human around Rights of Nature, Universal Basic Income and right’s abuse, the social impact of coal seam gas exploration and rethinking regulation participatory democracy. In 2013, he founded Green in an ecologically constrained world. Music Australia, an organisation working to reduce the environmental impact of the music scene and use its growing leadership to drive deep social and cultural change. The organisation brings together his environmental activism with his experience as a musician, having recorded 7 albums and toured nationally and globally, from the National Folk Festival to New York’s Carnegie Hall with his band, FourPlay String Quartet. Tim was previously Communications Director for Greens Leader Christine Milne, has been both a board member and campaigner at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, and has worked for 350.org, Lock the Gate and others. His writing on environmental, social and political issues has been widely published, including at the Griffith Review, the Guardian, ABC, Huffington Post, and Crikey. His published academic research focuses on the role of music in social change.

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Dr Cassandra Goldie CEO, Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) Professor Miranda Stewart Dr Cassandra Goldie is CEO of the Australian Council Director of Tax, Melbourne Law School, University of Social Service, the national peak body for the of Melbourne community sector, and an advocate for tackling Miranda Stewart is Professor and Director of Tax poverty and inequality. She has deep public policy at Melbourne University Law School and a Fellow expertise in economic and social issues, civil society, at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the social justice and human rights and is a regular media Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National and public commentator and conference presenter. University. Miranda was the inaugural Director of Prior to joining ACOSS, Cassandra held senior roles the TTPI from 2014 to 2017. Miranda does research, in both the not-for-profit and public sectors at teaching and consulting on a wide range of tax law, local, national and international levels, including with the Australian Human Rights policy and budget topics, with a particular focus on Commission, the Darwin Community Legal Service, Legal Aid Western Australia and the tax, economic development and inequality in Australia and globally. Recent papers global Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions. address redistribution between rich and poor countries and gender budgeting; and Cassandra is Adjunct Professor with the Law Faculty at the University of New South edited books include Tax, Social Policy and Gender and Tax, Law and Development. Wales. She has a PhD from University of New South Wales and a Masters of Law Miranda is a frequent public and media commentator on issues of tax and budgeting from University College London. She is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of and was named as one of the AFR’s 100 Women of Influence in 2018. Company Directors. She serves on the Advisory Committee for the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, the UNSW Law Advisory Committee, the Australian Climate Roundtable, the Pinnacle Foundation Board, the Management Committee Dr Christian Downie of the International Council of Social Welfare and the Energy Charter Independent ARC DECRA Fellow, School of Regulation and Global Accountability Panel. Governance, Australian National University Dr Christian Downie is an Australian Research Council Professor Jolanda Jetten FASSA DECRA Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University. Professor of Social Psychology, ARC Laureate He was previously a Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Queensland Fellow at the University of New South Wales. Jolanda Jetten (PhD, University of Amsterdam, 1997) Christian has worked as a foreign policy advisor to the is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and a Queensland. She has been employed as an ARC Future climate policy advisor to the Department of Climate Fellowship, UQ Development Fellowship and was Change. Christian holds a PhD in international relations and political science from recently awarded the 2018 Belgian Francqui fellowship the Australian National University, and has spent time teaching or researching at the and an ARC Laureate Fellowship (2019-2013). Her Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the London School of Economics and Political research is concerned with group processes, social Science and the Balsillie School of International Affairs among others. Christian is the identity and intergroup relations, as represented by author of more than 20 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. His latest her most recent books: The Wealth Paradox: Economic prosperity and the hardening book, Business Battles in the U.S. Energy Sector, was published in 2019. of attitudes towards minorities (with Frank Mols; Cambridge University Press, 2017) and The New Psychology of Health: Unlocking the Social Cure (with Catherine Haslam, Tegan Cruwys, Genevieve Dingle and Alex Haslam; Psychology Press, 2018). She has published over 170 peer-reviewed articles, over 35 chapters and 5 books.

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Ms Emma Herd Prior to his appointment at The Australia Institute, Denniss was Senior Strategic Advisor to Leader Senator and was also Chief of Staff to CEO, Investor Group on Climate Change Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja, former Leader of the . He was Emma Herd has been Chief Executive Officer at the also a Lecturer in Economics at the university of Newcastle. Investor Group on Climate Change since August 2015. Emma has worked in climate change, sustainability, public policy and finance for almost twenty years. Richard has regular columns in the Australian Financial Review and the Guardian as well as writing regular essays for The Monthly. He publishes regularly in academic journals and has written 6 books including Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Prior to IGCC, Emma spent 15 years at Westpac Enough (with ), An introduction to Australian Public Policy (with Sarah Banking Corporation where she worked at the Maddison), Minority policy: rethinking governance when parliament matters (with vanguard of climate change and finance. She held a Brenton Prosser) Econobabble: How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense, range of roles across carbon finance and emissions Curing Affluenza: How to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World and the June 2018 trading, ESG Risk assessment, public policy and advocacy, sustainability strategy Quarterly Essay, Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next. development and corporate affairs across Westpac Institutional Bank and Westpac

Banking Corporation. She started her career working in Parliamentary Committees (Senate and House of Representatives) in Parliament House, Canberra. Professor Neil Gunningham FASSA Professor of Regulation and Global Governance, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Emma is a Non-Executive Director of the Carbon Market Institute and a member of Australian National University the Queensland Climate Change Advisory Council. Emma is a member of the Steering Committee of the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative and the New Zealand Neil Gunningham is a lawyer and social scientist Sustainable Finance Forum. She holds a Bachelor of Asian Studies (Thai) Hons. working in the areas of climate, energy and environmental regulation and governance. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences Dr Richard Denniss and a Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Chief Economist, The Australia Institute Governance (RegNet) at the Australian University He is Richard Denniss is the Chief Economist and former a past Fulbright Scholar and Distinguished Research Executive Director of The Australia Institute.He is a Professor at Cardiff University. His books include Smart Regulation: Designing prominent Australian economist, author and public Environmental Policy, and Shades of Green: Business, Regulation and Environment. policy commentator, and a former Associate Professor His current research is on the role of financial markets in climate change mitigation, in the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU, and on the roles of social activism in averting a climate catastrophe. Richard was described by Mark Kenny in the Sydney Mr Paul Barclay Morning Herald as “a constant thorn in the side of Presenter and Producer, Big Ideas, ABC Radio politicians on both sides due to his habit of skewering National dodgy economic justifications for policy”. The Paul Barclay is a Walkley Award winning journalist and Australian Financial Review listed Denniss and Ben Oquist of The Australia Institute broadcaster with an appetite for ideas and in-depth as equal tenth-place on their ‘Covert Power’ 2018 list of the most powerful people in analysis and discussion. Australia. Paul has produced countless stories over more than twenty years for an array of programs on virtually all ABC radio networks. He is currently the host of Big Ideas on ABC Radio National.

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Losing It! Are Australian Governments Still Capable DAY 1 ) Monday, 11 November 2019 of the Art of Effective Policy Making? Event Time Venue Presented by the Hon. Marcia Neave AO 6:30pm - The Common Room New Fellows’ Presentations* 10:00pm University House, ANU This lecture will identify the elements of the ‘art’ of effective policy making. It argues DAY 2 ) Tuesday, 12 November 2019 that the art of making policy to address complex social issues requires, among other things, subject expertise, the need to balance short term against longer term outcomes 8:45am - Annual Symposium* of proposed changes, courage in dealing with uncertainty and an understanding of the 4:30pm National Library of benefits and complexities of promoting community debate and engagement about 4:30pm - Australia policy proposals. President’s Drinks* 5:00pm Parkes Place West, The lecture will briefly refer to factors which have contributed to the reduced role of 5:00pm - Canberra Cunningham Lecture* the bureaucracy in addressing policy issues and a corresponding increase in reliance 6:00pm on Royal Commissions, Inquiries and private consulting firms to identify problems and 6:30pm - The Great Hall propose solutions. It will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using these Annual Fellows’ Dinner 10:30pm University House, ANU mechanisms to propose appropriate reforms to the problems which are identified.

DAY 3 ) Wednesday, 13 November 2019 Finally, the lecture will argue that reliance on outside bodies has reduced the capacity of government to plan for and implement long-term policy changes, even in areas Panel Meetings 9:00am - where the need for reform is widely accepted. Loss of the willingness or ability to (ASSA Fellows Only) 10:30am exercise the art of policy-making has contributed to cynicism about our politicians and Various anger and distrust of government. Followed by Morning Tea at University House (10:30 - 11:00am) Annual General Meeting 11:00am The Great Hall Fellows’ Luncheon 1:00pm University House, ANU (ASSA Fellows Only)

*Event Open to the Public

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