The University of Melbourne has a range of academic experts available to comment on the 2010 budget announcements.
David Scott
Media Unit
T: +613 83440561
M: 0409024230
E: dascott@unimelb.edu.au
The Victorian State Government will announce its budget on Tuesday May 4, while the Federal Government will announce its budget a week later on May 11.
Please see below for the full list of experts:
Health service reforms
Associate Professor Prof Margaret Kelaher
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics
Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
T: 8344 0648
E: mkelaher@unimelb.edu.au
Interest rates, risk management, climate change financial policy, markets
Dr Les Coleman
Department of Finance
Faculty of Business and Economics
T: 8344 3696
E: les.coleman@unimelb.edu.au
Real estate finance, housing affordability, real estate development
Dr Callum Scott
Department of Finance
Faculty of Business and Economics
T: 8344 7490
E: Callum@unimelb.edu.au
Housing affordability and property development
Dr Harry Karamujic
Senior Lecturer in Property Development & Finance
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
T: 8344 3030
E: harryk@unimelb.edu.au
The Henry Review on Tax, taxation and welfare law
Associate Professor Miranda Stewart
Co-Director, Taxation Studies
Melbourne Law School
T: 83446544
E: m.stewart@unimelb.edu.au
Water and energy use
Dr Dominique Hes
Lecturer, Sustainable Architecture
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
T: 8344 4230
E: dhes@unimelb.edu.au
Urban planning issues including safety, families, local government & climate change planning
Associate Professor Carolyn Whitzman
Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
T: 8344 8723
E: Whitzman@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Alan March
Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
T: 8344 7077
E: alanpm@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Jennifer Day
Lecturer in Urban Planning
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
T: 8344 8743
E: jday@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Kate Shaw
ARC Post Doctoral Fellow
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
T: 8344 0086
E: kates@unimelb.edu.au
Childcare and Early Childhood Education: Policy and Infrastructure
Professor Collette Tayler
Chair of Early Childhood Education and Care
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
T: 8344 0992
E: collette.tayler@unimelb.edu.au
Building the Education Revolution and School Performance Improvement and comparison (My School)
Professor Stephen Lamb
Deputy Director, Centre for Post-compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
T: 8344 8332
E: lamb@unimelb.edu.au
Higher education
Richard James
Director of Centre for the Study of Higher Education and Chair of Higher Education
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
T: 8344 7627
E: r.james@unimelb.edu.au
Simon Marginson
Chair of Higher Education, Centre for the Study of Higher Education
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
T: 8344 8060
E: s.marginson@unimelb.edu.au
Teacher education
Field Rickards
Dean, Melbourne Graduate School of Education
T: 8344 8331
E: f.rickards@unimelb.edu.au