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Transforming Data into Policy: What can we learn from climate change policy making in Australia so far?
Key contributors to climate change policy making in Australia will reflect on their experiences and point to the lessons that can be learnt at a forum at the University of Melbourne on Tuesday 30 March.
Dr Robert Maillardet, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, ph: +61 3 8344 8051, rjmail@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Nerissa Hannink, Media Office, University of Melbourne, ph +61 3 8344 8151, 0430 588 055, nhannink@unimelb.edu.au
The forum - ‘Transforming Data into Policy: What can we learn from climate change policy making in Australia so far?’ - seeks to explore how well our public policy making processes have served Australia's national interests in developing its response to climate change, including the development of support policies for trade exposed industries and for new technologies.
The Forum will be moderated by Michael Gawenda, Editor of the Age from 1997 to 2004, and now inaugural Director of the University’s Centre for Advanced Journalism.
Panelists include:
• Ross Garnaut (Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, The University of Melbourne; Distinguished Professor, The Australian National University and author of Garnaut Climate Change Review).
• Greg Combet AM, MP (Federal Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change)
• Paul Kelly (Editor-in-Chief (1991-1996) and now Editor-at-Large of The Australian)
• Rod Sims (Director, Port Jackson Partners Limited)
The distinguished panelists will make short presentations from economic, political, media and business perspectives, followed by audience questions and debate of the issues raised.
Forum organizer Dr Robert Maillardet from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne says climate change presents nations worldwide with complex and challenging policy dilemmas.
“The collection and careful analysis of relevant quantitative data is a crucial component of effective policy making. This data enters a public policy making process in which many players are employed to promote sectional interests, and in which the media, politicians, business, and an increasing aware general public all actively participate,” he says.
The forum is part of a new breadth subject ‘Critical thinking with data’, which teaches statistical literacy in a non-mathematical way to a very broad cohort across the University of Melbourne's New Generation degrees.
WHAT: ‘Transforming Data into Policy’ forum. Link to live stream at http://live.unimelb.edu.au/.
WHEN: Tuesday 30 March 2010, 12.30pm to 2pm,
WHERE: Basement Theatre, Spot Building, the University of Melbourne.
