UTS experts available for Federal Budget analysis
UTS experts are available for Federal Budget analysis on issues such as aged care, health, gender equity, innovation and social justice.
The Treasurer will deliver the 2022-23 October Budget on Tuesday 25 October 2022. The following UTS experts are available for comment. Please contact the UTS Media Office for further advice and information on +61 419 293 261.
Social justice and public policy
Verity Firth, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Social Justice & Inclusion)
Verity Firth is available to discuss social justice/equity, gender equality, aged care sector, education funding allocation, including impacts on remote/regional students or other vulnerable groups.
verity.firth@uts.edu.au
Professor Carol Mills
Carol Mills is Director of the Institute of Public Policy And Governance at UTS. Her expertise covers public policy and public administration, including social and affordable housing, sport and recreation, arts and heritage administration liquor and gaming regulation, disability services, children services and Aboriginal affairs.
Carol.Mills@uts.edu.au
Innovation
Emeritus Professor Roy Green
UTS Special Innovation Advisor, Emeritus Professor Roy Green is an expert on Innovation and entrepreneurship, R&D, industry policy and management.
roy.green@uts.edu.au
Associate Professor Danielle Logue
Associate Professor Logue is a specialist in innovation, entrepreneurship, SMEs, business recovery, industrial strategy, impact investment, gender-lens investing, women’s economic and business development.
Danielle.Logue@uts.edu.au
Health
Distinguished Professor Jane Hall
Jane Hall is Distinguished Professor of Health Economics in the UTS Business School, and past president of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. She is available to comment on health policy, Medicare, research policy.
Jane.hall@uts.edu.au
Professor Rosalie Viney
Professor Viney is Director of the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) at UTS. She has expertise in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, and can discuss health policy and other health issues.
Rosalie.Viney@uts.edu.au
Associate Professor Richard De Abreu Lourenco
Health economist Richard De Abreu Lourenco is available to discuss funding vaccines, treatment development pathways, market access and reimbursement for pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
Richard.DeAbreuLourenco@chere.uts.edu.au
Resilience and disaster recovery
Professor Elizabeth Mossop
Elizabeth Mossop is Dean of the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building and Professor of Landscape Architecture. She is available to discuss infrastructure planning and resourcing, disaster mitigation and recovery, urban revitalisation, and the role of planning and landscape design in building resilient communities in the face of climate change.
Elizabeth.Mossop@uts.edu.au
Construction and housing
Professor Martin Loosemore
Martin Loosemore is Professor of Construction Management at UTS. His research has focused in the areas of innovation, social value, social procurement, risk management, human resource management, gender diversity and equity, cultural diversity and corporate social responsibility.
Martin.Loosemore@uts.edu.au
Professor Alan Morris
Alan Morris is a professor in the Institute for Public Policy and Governance. He is an expert in housing and urban studies and social policy. His most recent book is The Private Rental Sector in Australia: Living with Uncertainty.
Alan.Morris@uts.edu.au
Aged care
Professor of Nursing Aged Care (Dementia) Deborah Parker
Professor Parker leads the ageing research program for the Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation Centre at UTS; and is co-lead on End of Life Directions in Aged Care, to improve palliative care and advance care planning for older Australians.
Deborah.Parker@uts.edu.au
Professor David Brown
David Brown is a Professor of Management Accounting with a focus on the design and use of management and accounting systems to address behavioural, decision making and coordination problems in organisations. He is currently examining data from the aged care Royal Commission and can offer expertise on financial factors and their effect on quality and workforce.
David.Brown@uts.edu.au
Dr Nicole Sutton
Accounting lecturer Dr Nicole Sutton, can discuss the resourcing of aged care, agencies and public sector spending, in particular spending on science, including R&D.
Nicole.Sutton@uts.edu.au
Disability and National Disability Insurance Scheme
Professor Simon Darcy
Professor Darcy is a researcher in the area of disability, diversity and inclusion. He has current programs examining employment and social participation as indicators of disability citizenship. Simon is an insider as a power wheelchair user himself.
Simon.Darcy@uts.edu.au
Trade and economics
Professor Tim Harcourt
Tim Harcourt is Industry Professor and Chief Economist at the UTS Institute for Public Policy and Governance. He is available to comment on the overall economic framework of the Budget plus trade and Australia’s engagement with the global economy. Wage and labour markets, climate innovation and sport.
Tim.Harcourt@uts.edu.au
Professor Michelle Baddeley
Behavioural economist Professor Michelle Baddeley is Associate Dean (Research) at UTS Business School and is available to discuss behavioural economic perspectives on stimulus measures, and broader macroeconomic insights.
Michelle.Baddeley@uts.edu.au
Professor of Finance Harry Scheule
Professor Scheule is a finance expert and can talk about the impact of the budget on the banking sector and housing.
Harald.Scheule@uts.edu.au
Corporate tax
Associate Professor of Accounting Roman Lanis
Dr Brett Govendir
Assoc Prof Lanis and Dr Govendir research corporate tax, including multinational ‘tax shifting’.
Roman.Lanis@uts.edu.au
Brett.Govendir@uts.edu.au
Not for profit organisations and small to medium enterprises
Professor Bronwen Dalton
Professor Dalton is available to comment on funding for the not-for-profit sector.
Bronwen.Dalton@uts.edu.au
Transport
Mathew Hounsell
Mathew Hounsell is a senior researcher at the UTS Transport Research Centre, focusing on empirically-driven transport analytics and developing holistic customer-centric solutions for transport systems.
Mathew.Hounsell@uts.edu.au
Energy
Professor Stuart White
Professor Stuart White is Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS. His work focuses on achieving sustainability outcomes at least cost, including design and evaluation of programs for improving resource use efficiency.
Stuart.White@uts.edu.au
Sustainable business and circular economy
Dr Melissa Edwards
Dr Edwards conducts research on sustainable business models and strategies for developing a circular economy.
Melissa.Edwards@uts.edu.au
Discrimination
Associate Professor Karen O’Connell
Dr Karen O'Connell is an expert in discrimination law, particularly sex and disability discrimination, sexual harassment, and biotechnologies of the body, neuroscience and genetics. She is experienced in law reform, policy development and is a member of the UTS Law Health Justice Centre. Karen.OConnell@uts.edu.au
Budget overview
Dr David Bond
Accounting lecturer Dr David Bond can provide a budget overview. As well as ‘the numbers’, he can address measures in the area of income tax, negative gearing and SMEs.
David.Bond@uts.edu.au