Date: Tuesday Jul 8, 2025, 8:00 am
To mark the 100th anniversary of the Australian Conference of Economists (ACE), the Women in Economics Network (WEN) NSW is hosting a casual coffee catch-up for women economists in Sydney. If you're in Sydney for attending ACE or working nearby in the Sydney CBD, we’d love for you to join us for a morning coffee and networking with other women in the profession.
View...Date: Tuesday Jun 17, 2025, 6:00 pm
As part of the Eminent Speaker Series, the Economic Society of Australia Victoria Branch join with Melbourne Business School in extending a warm invitation to this engaging seminar by Professor Songzi Du on price discovery in auctions.
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View...Date: Tuesday Jun 17, 2025, 5:30 pm
The event will begin with a fireside discussion featuring a small panel of mentors, followed by a speed mentoring session where you will be given the opportunity to rotate in small groups to discuss career-focused questions with mentors. Participants will be welcome to continue networking after the formal program.
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Date: Wednesday Jun 11, 2025, 6:00 pm
The 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Women in Economics Network (WEN) Queensland branch will be held on Wednesday 11th June 2025 at 6:00pm at Pig’N’Whistle Riverside, Churchill Room, 123 Eagle St, Qld, 4001, Brisbane, AU 4000
View...Date: Tuesday Jun 3, 2025, 5:00 pm
Join Padma Raman, Executive Director of the Office for Women at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and Susanne Legena, CEO of Plan International Australia, to discuss the state of gender equality in Australia, attitudes to gender equality, and how to use these insights to progress gender equality.
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Date: Thursday May 22, 2025, 7:45 am
The Women in Economics Network ('WEN') in Victoria is excited to extend a warm invitation to you for an informal coffee meet-up. This is a chance for members to catch up over a cup of coffee and meet fellow friends and economists, including this month's special guests, Executive Directors at the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance, Miranda Forehan and Teresa Stewart.
View...Date: Thursday May 15, 2025, 5:30 pm
It’s time for another LinkedUP! The WEN Queensland branch invites you to join us for an informal networking evening. Come along to connect or reconnect with old and new WEN members.
View...Date: Thursday Apr 24, 2025, 12:00 pm
The tariffs announced on April 2nd have disrupted many firms' strategies and thrown financial markets into chaos. Further announcements have increased tariffs on China and reduced other tariffs pending negotiations. What will be the impact of greater uncertainty and volatility on world trade, business investment in Australia, the US and China and other macroeconomic variables?
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View...Date: Tuesday Apr 8, 2025, 12:00 pm
The size and diversity of the economics student population has declined sharply since the early 1990s, raising concerns about economic literacy in society and the long-term health of the economics discipline. Interest in studying economics at university is low, even for those who studied economics in Year 12.
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View...Date: Thursday Apr 3, 2025, 12:00 pm
For many countries, the race to net zero interacts in complicated ways with trade policy. There has long been research on how globalisation and international economic policy affect the environment: How do tariffs affect greenhouse gas emissions? Does globalisation cause a “race to the bottom” in environmental policy?
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View...Date: Thursday Mar 27, 2025, 6:00 pm
Interested to learn more about where a career in economics can take you?
Join us at ANU or online on 27 March from 5:30pm for a panel discussion from 6-7pm with
This is a free, in person or online event. Registration is required.
The panel will share their reflections on life as an economist and insights on what agencies are looking for in strong graduate applications.
View...Date: Friday Mar 21, 2025, 12:00 pm
Australia is in the grips of a housing crisis, driven by rising costs in construction, the adjustment to working-from-home, and other factors. Rental affordability has worsened in the last few years, and rental affordability had been growing worse for the bottom quintile of earners over the last decade.
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View...Date: Wednesday Mar 5, 2025, 11:30 am
Three of WEN's leading economists will outline the economic challenges and opportunities facing the Federal Government
View...Date: Thursday Feb 27, 2025, 12:00 pm
Seminar Series on Energy Transition - Session Two
The Australian electricity sector is undergoing a transformation. Our energy demand is growing, and critical policy and investment decisions are needed to ensure our energy future is reliable, sustainable and affordable. With the 2025 federal election on the horizon, decisions made now will shape the nation’s economy, infrastructure and workforce for decades to come. They will also have budgetary outcomes for successive governments to come.
View...Date: Thursday Feb 20, 2025, 12:00 pm
This event is postponed - the new date will be advised as soon as possible
Seminar Series on Energy Transition - Session One
The energy transition is unfolding rapidly. The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has recently published a 10-year outlook for residential electricity prices, with a focus on projecting how each cost component might change over the next decade. Beyond just examining electricity costs, the analysis also considers how households' total energy costs (or their 'energy wallet’) will change as they electrify transportation, heating and cooking, transitioning from other fuel sources to electricity.
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View...Date: Wednesday Feb 12, 2025, 11:00 am
Join us for this webinar during which Alison Preston examines the impact of working at home on the wages of men and women using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey.
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View...Date: Thursday Feb 6, 2025, 12:00 am
The 8th Australian Gender Economics Workshop (#AGEW2025) is hosted by the University of Wollongong in partnership with the Women in Economics Network and is organised by Alfredo Paloyo. The workshop will take place on 6‒7 February 2025 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Wollongong is in Dharawal Country.
View...Date: Tuesday Dec 17, 2024, 7:30 am
The Women in Economics Network ('WEN') in Victoria is excited to extend a warm invitation to you for a final breakfast catch-up to wrap up 2024. This is a chance for members to connect, share experiences, and reflect on the year, while enjoying an informal breakfast together.
View...Date: Thursday Dec 12, 2024, 8:30 am
The Women in Economics Network (WEN) Victoria branch invites you to join us for breakfast on Thursday 12 December to explore some of the barriers to achieving gender equality. Join Dr Marina Gertsberg from Melbourne University and Sruthi Srikanthan from Deloitte Access Economics as they discuss the impacts of biased gatekeepers and gender norms in achieving gender equality.
View...Date: Monday Dec 2, 2024, 7:00 pm
Climate change already has a negative impact on the environment and our societies, and this impact will get worse over the course of this century.
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View...Date: Thursday Nov 21, 2024, 4:00 pm
The Women in Economics Network (‘WEN’) in collaboration with the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Gender Equity Employee Resource Group invite you to a discussion and Q&A with five leading economists:
View...Date: Monday Nov 18, 2024, 12:00 pm
Industrial policy and competition policy
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View...Date: Friday Nov 15, 2024, 12:00 pm
The National WEN Committee will hold its AGM on 15 November 2024 from 12.00pm-1.30pm (AEDT) via zoom, and invites all WEN Members to register via the link below. The meeting is an opportunity to celebrate another busy year across WEN Branches and nationally, and we are excited that the Hon Allegra Spender MP will join us to provide her insights on the economic challenges facing Australia.
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View...Date: Thursday Nov 14, 2024, 5:30 pm
It’s time for another LinkedUP! The WEN Queensland branch invites you to join us for an informal networking evening. Come along to connect or reconnect with old and new WEN members.
View...Date: Friday Nov 8, 2024, 12:00 pm
NEW TIME - NOW FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER AT 12.00PM AEDT (SYD/CBR/MEL)
Identifying Challenges and Improving Outcomes for Labor Market Transitions Using Machine Learning
This talk will review several recent papers that focus on labor market transitions. The first project analyzes worker resilience in response to layoffs, using administrative data from Sweden.
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