Making the Boom Pay

In 2011, Catalyst's major conference examined how Australia should best manage the mining boom.

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Jessica Irvine

The boom was often presented as a fast lane and slow lane predicament, but there was a middle lane, said Jessica Irvine, Economics Writer at the Sydney Morning Herald

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Julian Disney

Professor Julian Disney talked about the impact of short-term thinking. He said there is a need for 15-20 year horizons in policy reform and spoke about the outlying issues that impact on Australia’s ability to respond to the boom.

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