JUBILEE AUSTRALIA presents a forum that you can't afford to miss: A Global Response to a Global Crisis: from G20 to UN. Saturday 1st August, 10:00 - 11:30am, Harbour's Edge Event Centre, Darling Harbour.
Where has the current global economic system gone wrong? How do we reform it? How can the solutions be inclusive of all global citizens including those most affected by the crisis - the world’s poor?
These are issues that are dominating discussion overseas but have had little airplay in Australia. Australia needs to be involved in this crucial debate. Join our panellists in a forum that draws on some of Australia’s best academic work on the global financial system.
Jubilee Australia has been invited to host our event with some of Australia's leading progressive think-tanks and guest speakers from here and around the world in the Chifley Ideas Space (see full programme).
Speakers: Professor Ross Buckley, Law School UNSW, Dr Elizabeth Thurbon, UNSW, and Luke Fletcher, Jubilee Australia.
Philippines economist and activist, Joffre
Balce, will shape the way you think about the concurrent crises our world is
facing and take you on a journey in the search for best
solutions.
Time:
12–1pm
Location:
School of Politics and International
Studies University of Queensland, Brisbane
Speaker: Joffre Balce was an
adviser to both President Corazon Aquino and later Vice-President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo. As Chief Economist in the Philippine Deposit Insurance
Corporation, he designed a rural banking program linked to a World Bank debt
reduction project and is currently on a scholarship to complete a PhD in Law at
the University of
NSW, focusing on debt
reduction.
Jubilee Australia is a
national research and lobby organisation analysing debt and irresponsible
financing as root causes of hunger, poverty, conflict and ecological
degradation, and developing solutions in partnership with the worldwide debt
movement.
As part of the World Youth Day Festival, the Columban Centre for Peace, Ecology and Justice is hosting an expressive performance by young people from Brazil, the Philippines, and Australia.
Celebrate the launch of this fantastic new book that aims to make poverty a little more understandable to all of us.
Tim Costello will launch the World Poverty for Dummies book on Friday 20 June at the University of Melbourne. Tim will also report on his recent trip to Myanmar.
Jubilee Australia supports the following public forum hosted by the Columban Centres for Peace, Ecology and Justice, and Christian-Muslim Relations in partnership with the City of Canterbury Council.
Join Micah Challenge in Canberra this October to speak out, pray, worship, learn and engage in conversations with our nation’s leaders calling for global poverty to be halved by 2015. The 2008 program, held during Anti-Poverty week, promises opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to be transformed by the Spirit, so we can help transform our world.
As part of this year's Week of Global Action against Debt, Jubilee Australia will be in Canberra to join in the Micah Challenge, Voices for Justice activities. Click here to view the events you are invited to attend in Canberra. Then on 16 October we are hosting a dinner DINE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, we would love it if you could join us for the event. Click here to read the invitation.
Visit the Debt Week website to see the activities that debt campaigners are holding right across the globe. Jubilee Australia is also signatory to the Week of Global Action — Call to Action Statement which is accessible on the website.
If you would like to organise an event (large or small) to participate in the Week of Global Action Against Debt, joining activists from all around the world in marking the week of action, email (email) or phone us today for ideas.
You are warmly invited to join us at NSW Parliament House for a panel discussion with lively debate and question time to mark World Debt Day 2008. The lunchtime forum is being hosted by Ian Cohen MLC (NSW Greens) in conjunction with Jubilee Australia, to consider the following topic of urgent priority:
"DEBT CRISIS TO FOOD CRISIS: STRENGTHENING AUSTRALIA'S RESPONSE TO ONGOING STRUCTURAL IMBALANCES IN THE WORLD ECONOMY"
Join local and international experts for a panel discussion and debate
on the tenth anniversary of the Australian Jubilee campaign against global debt.
Monday 19 May, 2008
12:15 - 1:30pm
Followed by light lunch refreshments
NSW Parliament House, Jubilee Room
Macquarie Street, Sydney
Forum Speakers:
Senator Kerry Nettle
Kerry was elected as the first Greens Senator for NSW in 2001. Kerry recently represented the Australian All Party Parliamentary Group on Population and Development at the 24th Asian Parliamentarians Meeting on Population and Development held in Kuala Lumpur.
Dr Tim Anderson
Tim is a senior lecturer at University of Sydney and activist with a doctorate on the political economy of economic liberalisation in Australia. He has written extensively on East Timor, PNG and Pacific Region.
Joffre Balce
A Philippines economist Joffre has worked as a consultant to the Chairman at Development Bank of the Philippines and as consultant to senior Philippines government officials. He is currently undertaking a PhD at University of NSW specialising on restructuring sovereign debt of highly indebted poor countries to better address economic development concerns.
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