Creating a culture of full employment conference concludes

Friday 9 December 2005

The Creating a Culture of Full Employment conference concludes at the University of Newcastle today.

Academics, policy makers, service providers and social activists from across Australia and around the world are examining approaches which will help our communities develop the necessary cultural shifts that will compel policy-makers to move our economy back to full employment.

The University of Newcastle's Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) has hosted the conference, which incorporates the twelfth national conference on unemployment.

Keynote addresses on Friday include Warren B. Mosler, Associate Fellow, Centre for Economic and Public Policy, Cambridge University in the U.K., who argues that labour market deregulation, the dominant policy focus of the current government, will not increase employment.

Professor Scott Fullwiler, James A Leach Chair in Banking and Monetary Economics at Wartburg College in Iowa, will discuss the economic impacts of public sector job creation.

In the concluding feature address for the conference, Dr Dimitri Papadimitriou, from the prestigious Levy Economics Institute in the U.S.A., will discuss the problem the global economy faces as the private sector goes further into debt.

The two day conference concludes on Friday 9 December 2005.

For media interviews: CofFEE Director, Professor Bill Mitchell, on (02) 4921 5027.