Moving the Needle: How Reform Gets Done in Australia

Launch event for Australia's newest long-form policy publication: Inflection Points

Australian reformers are plagued by a culture of hesitance. It's time to learn from our successes past and present, and make progress a reality for our nation once again.

Brendan Coates (Grattan Institute) on how Grattan shifted the dial on skilled migration policy.

Michael Brennan (e61 Institute and former Productivity Commission chair) on how e61 Institute got non-compete clauses on the Commonwealth policy agenda.

Katie Roberts-Hull (Think Forward Educators) on how phonics was mandated in primary schools.

Myriam Robin (senior writer for AFR) will host the panel discussion.

Join us at the Wheeler Centre from 6:15pm, with the event scheduled to begin at 6:30, followed by an evening of networking at The Moat.

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About our speakers:

Brendan Coates

Brendan Coates is the Housing and Economic Security Program Director at Grattan Institute, where he leads Grattan’s work on housing, retirement incomes, and superannuation.

He is a former macro-financial economist with the World Bank in Indonesia and consulted to the Bank in Latin America. Prior to that, he worked in the Australian Treasury in areas such as tax-transfer system reform and macro-economic forecasting, with a strong focus on the Chinese economy.

Brendan holds a Masters of International Development Economics from the Australian National University and Bachelors of Commerce and Arts from the University of Melbourne.

Michael Brennan

Michael Brennan is the CEO of the e61 Institute. He is an experienced economic policy professional, having been a former Chair of the Australian Productivity Commission and Deputy Secretary of the Australian Treasury. He has also worked as a Deputy Secretary in the Victorian Treasury, and as a consultant as well as an adviser to Federal and State Treasurers and Ministers for Finance.

Katie Roberts-Hull

Katie has over a decade of senior education policy experience in Australia, has worked with system leaders and educators in every Australian state and territory, and is CEO of Think Forward Educators, a not-for-profit organisation supporting teachers to share evidence-based practice.

Myriam Robin

Myriam Robin is a senior writer at the Australian Financial Review, focussing on features and long-form writing. Before that, she wrote far shorter pieces for the Rear Window gossip column, and has also previously reported on financial markets, economics and the media.