University of 51吃瓜 experts are available to comment on issues around the 2019 Federal Budget. Journalists can contact the following experts below or search by topic or name at .
Economics
, School of Economics:
Expertise: Australian economic policy, public asset sales, infrastructure projects, drought and economics, water and economics, environment/climate change and economics, economic growth, tax, employment policy, and ‘zombie economics’.
Contact: j.quiggin@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 9646, +61 400 747 165, .
, Australian Institute for Business and Economics:
Expertise: labour economics, industrial economics, taxation policy, climate change economics, water and economics, economic growth.
Contact: jmangan@bel.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 1630, +61 434 367 480.
, School of Economics:
Expertise: microeconomic policy and regulation, innovation and startup policy, industry economics, economic development and growth.
Contact: b.markeytowler@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 7058, +61 448 213 904, .
, School of Economics:
Expertise: regulation and market design (including in energy, transport, environment and health), public procurement, taxation, general comment on Australian economic policy.
Contact: f.menezes@uq.edu.au.
Business
, School of Business:
Expertise: taxation, corporate finance, superannuation.
Contact: k.alpert@business.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 8003, .
, School of Business:
Expertise: financial modelling, corporate finance, empirical finance and asset pricing, interest rates.
Contact: s.gray@business.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 8032.
, Executive Dean of Faculty of Business, Economics and Law:
Expertise: innovation and sustainability, corporate sustainability, climate change and business.
Contact: a.griffiths@bel.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 6204, .
, School of Business:
Expertise: corporate finance, financial institutions, financial crises.
Contact: m.haq@business.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 8003.
, School of Business:
Expertise: funds management, responsible/sustainable investment.
Contact: j.humphrey@business.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 8106.
, Discipline Head of Finance in School of Business:
Expertise: corporate social responsibility, long-term financial modelling, decision-making under risk, sentiment and stock markets.
Contact: b.oliver@business.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 8037.
Expertise: Innovation leadership, entrepreneurship, SME growth and performance, business model innovation. Sarel can discuss how the budget may affect small-to-medium businesses.
Contact: s.gronum@business.uq.edu.au, +61 3 346 8168.
, UQ Business School
Expertise: Financial planning, corporate finance, financial services, investment analysis, executive financial management. Mark can help decipher what the budget means for individual Australians and their financial planning.
Contact: m.tanner@business.uq.edu.au, +61 7 334 68186.
Law
, School of Law:
Expertise: law relating to politics, elections, finance, labour and employment, and how elections are regulated and run.
Contact: g.orr@law.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 3014, +61 434 525 398, .
, School of Law:
Expertise: Banking Royal Commission, corporate and financial services regulation, corporation law/wrongdoing/corruption, corporate crime, directors’ duties.
Contact: v.comino@law.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 2549, +61 407 156 829.
, School of Law:
Expertise: government policy relating to taxation and superannuation.
Contact: d.morrison@law.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 3494.
Climate
, UQ Centre for Policy Futures:
Expertise: climate change, sustainability and environment policy.
Contact: k.hussey@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3443 3154, +61 420 537 169.
, School of Political Science and International Studies:
Expertise: climate change.
Contact: matt.mcdonald@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 3042, +61 451 302 030, .
, School of Economics:
Expertise: environmental and resource economics, the economics of climate change, and environmental policy, mining, pollution regulation and recycling as it relates to economics.
Contact: i.mackenzie@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 6619.
Education
, School of Education
Expertise: educational policy and practice, particularly in relation to teachers’ learning.
Contact: i.hardy@uq.edu.au +61 7 3365 6425.
Defence and foreign policy
, School of Political Science and International Studies:
Expertise: foreign and defence policy, aid funding.
Contact: matt.mcdonald@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 3042, +61 451 302 030, .
Media: UQ Communications, communications@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 1120.
