The productivity zombie

Co-presented with Sydney Ideas:

The Evatt Foundation has brought together a distinguished panel of speakers to present critical perspectives on productivity, the most resilient concept in public debate over the direction of Australia’s economic policy since the 1980s. What do policy-makers and commentators mean when they talk about productivity? What is the relationship between productivity, social justice and the environment? Was the 1998 waterfront dispute a watershed in raising stevedoring productivity? Do the Gonski reforms offer the prospect of creating real life in place of the dead ideas that continue to walk among us?

The forum will be chaired by Anna York, secretary of the Evatt Foundation

Speakers

Carmen Lawrence is a professorial fellow at the University of Western Australia, was a member of the Australian government’s panel that reviewed school funding chaired by David Gonski. She is a former premier of Western Australia and a former minister in the Keating…