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FINDING a PLACE to CALL HOME Immigration in Australia BANKWEST CURTIN ECONOMICS CENTRE FINDING A PLACE TO CALL HOME Immigration in Australia Report Launch - Program Friday 1 November 2019 12.00pm to 2.00pm Hyatt Regency Perth Grand Ballroom 99 Adelaide Terrace, Perth #AustraliaImmigration @BankwestCurtin About the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre is an independent economic and social research organisation located within the Curtin Business School at Curtin University. The Centre was established in 2012 through the generous support of Bankwest, a division of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. The Centre’s core mission is to deliver high quality, accessible research that enhances our understanding of key economic and social issues that contribute to the wellbeing of West Australian families, businesses and communities. The Centre’s research and engagement activities are designed to influence economic and social policy debates in State and Federal Parliament, regional and national media, and the wider Australian community. Through high quality, evidence-based research and analysis, our research outcomes inform policy makers and commentators of the economic challenges to achieving sustainable and equitable growth and prosperity both in Western Australia and nationally. The Centre capitalises on Curtin University’s reputation for excellence in economic modelling, forecasting, public policy research, trade and industrial economics and spatial sciences. Centre researchers have specific expertise in economic forecasting, quantitative modelling and economic and social policy evaluation. Program 12.00pm Registration 12.15pm Welcome by MC Ms Nadia Mitsopoulos 12.20pm Welcome to Country by Ms Robyn Collard 12.25pm Introduction Sinead Taylor Executive General Manager Bankwest 12.30pm Entrée 12.40pm Report Launch Finding a Place to Call Home: Immigration in Australia Professor Alan Duncan Director Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre Associate Professor Astghik Mavisakalyan Principal Research Fellow Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre 1.00pm Lunch 1.20pm Panel Discussion and Q&A Dr Anne Aly MP Federal Member for Cowan Ms Tamkin Essa Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network WA Project Support Officer Youth Affairs Council of WA Dr John Byrne WA Equal Opportunity Commissioner Equal Opportunity Commission of Western Australia Professor Alan Duncan Director Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre Associate Professor Astghik Mavisakalyan Principal Research Fellow Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre 1.55pm Vote of thanks Professor Chris Moran Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research Curtin University 2.00pm Event concludes Have a question for the panel? Simply head to www.slido.com and enter event code #AustraliaImmigration to post your question. Your question will be seen by other audience members and the MC, and you can also vote for questions posted by other audience members, if you’d like that question answered too. Welcome from Alan Duncan elcome to the launch of Finding a Place to Call Home: Immigration Win Australia. This is the seventh report in the BCEC Focus on the States Series and explores the profile and evolution of immigration in Australia over recent years and undertakes a comprehensive assessment of the contributions immigrants make to Australia’s social and economic development. Growth in the immigrant share of Australia’s population has led to many debates over the impacts that migrants have had, or will have, on various aspects of life, particularly jobs and wages. Our report provides new evidence to better inform these debates and highlights the positive impact of immigrants to the Australian economy. It also explores the extent of acceptance of multiculturalism in Australia, and provides an assessment of immigrant health and wellbeing. We are becoming a more accepting society, but still have some way to go. There is a special focus on humanitarian migrants and how well they are faring. These migrants come to Australia having experienced terrible persecution and trauma, which will have a lasting impact on their overall health and wellbeing, but it is encouraging to see that the majority of these individuals feel a sense of safety and feel a part of our communities. Immigration is a defining feature of Australia’s economic and social life and will shape the nature of tomorrow’s Australia. We hope that this report goes some way to shed light on this important issue. Thank you to our guest presenters: Dr Anne Aly MP, Federal Member for Cowan; Dr John Byrne, WA Equal Opportunity Commissioner; Ms Tamkin Essa, Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network WA Project Support Officer, Youth Affairs Council WA; and our Master of Ceremonies, Ms Nadia Mitsopoulos, Journalist and Presenter from ABC Radio Perth. On behalf of BCEC, I welcome you to today’s launch and thank you for your continued support of the Centre’s mission to deliver high quality, evidence-based research that contributes to the wellbeing of West Australian families, businesses and communities. Professor Alan Duncan Director Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre Curtin Business School, Curtin University #AustraliaImmigration @BankwestCurtin Ms Robyn Collard Noongar Elder Robyn is a Nyungar Yorga from the Whadjuk and Ballardong family groups and is a mother of three and nana to 12 beautiful and talented grandchildren. Her wider family includes the McGuire, Bennell and Shaw families with connections to the Tiwi Islands. Robyn is a respected Elder and continues to conduct Welcome to Country ceremonies. Her role is to develop cultural education programs, offer advice from an Aboriginal perspective on a range of issues and build capacity with Aboriginal staff. Robyn comes with a wealth of knowledge and experience in her career that covers previous roles within the Government and Catholic education systems as a principal, team leader and education consultant from across the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Ms Sinead Taylor Executive General Manager, Bankwest Sinead is an experienced and highly regarded banking executive, bringing a rich international perspective from almost two decades of commercial banking experience. She was appointed head of Bankwest in October 2019, having joined Bankwest in 2013 as the Executive General Manager Business Banking, before being appointed in 2017 to also lead Retail Banking as Executive General Manager Personal and Business Banking. Prior to Bankwest, Sinead held a variety of Executive roles at Commonwealth Bank in Global Markets, Strategy, Marketing, Business and Corporate Banking. She has also managed strategy and marketing teams for a number of top tier professional service firms in the UK and Australia, as well as working in senior roles in publishing, radio production and broadcasting. Sinead holds a Master of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management, is accredited with the Australian Financial Markets Association, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the UK. She served as the Chair of the Bankwest Foundation and is a former Board member for WA Ballet. Sinead has four children and keeps active by cycling, running, rowing, skiing and ice skating. She has a passion for the arts, plays classical piano and enjoys composing and creative writing. #AustraliaImmigration @BankwestCurtin Professor Alan Duncan Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre Professor Alan Duncan is Director of the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre and Bankwest Professor of Economic Policy at Curtin University. Alan has published widely in academic and policy outlets of the highest international reputation, and was awarded the prestigious Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society in 2000 for a paper published in the world-leading journal, Econometrica. His broad range of research interests include: public policy; education, training and childcare; labour market participation; gender equity; and inequality and wellbeing. Alan completed a DPhil in Economics at the University of York. He has served on senior advisory panels and boards for government and public sector organisations and has given evidence at Federal Senate Committee hearings. Associate Professor Astghik Mavisakalyan Principal Research Fellow, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre Associate Professor Astghik Mavisakalyan is a Principal Research Fellow at the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre and oversees the Centre’s Focus on the States report series. She works in many areas, including cultural economics, political economy, development economics, labour economics, and gender and migration. With support from the Australian Research Council, UNU-WIDER and other sources, Astghik has published extensively through public reports and across reputable academic journals. Astghik serves the profession in a variety of roles such as editorial committee member of The Economic and Labour Relations Review, chair of the steering committee for the Australian Gender Economics Workshop series, and a member of the Women in Economics WA committee and the Economics Society of Australia’s WA Branch Council. Dr Anne Aly MP Federal Member for Cowan Dr Anne Aly is the Labor Federal Member for Cowan elected in 2016. Anne’s background is as a Professor, Academic and Practitioner in the fields of counter terrorism and counter radicalisation. She has published over 100 articles and texts on terrorism and related issues and is the author and editor of five books. Prior to becoming an academic she worked in government policy. Anne is the founder of Australia’s first non-government organisation to combat violent extremism. People against
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