Michael Brennan — Advancing prosperity through faster productivity growth — Treasury seminar🍋
Online, free of charge, and open to all. Next Monday 31 July @1:30pm NZST
»»»»»»»»»»»» Update: see here for the video of the presentation
»»»»»»»»»»»» And see below for Michael’s slides
The Treasury is pleased to present an online seminar on Monday, 31 July 2023 from 1:30 to 3:00pm with Michael Brennan, Chair of the Australian Productivity Commission.
The seminar is open to all and free of charge. Please confirm your attendance by registering via Eventbrite by 12:00pm on Friday, 28 July 2023. Once registered, you will receive an email closer to the event date containing a link to the online seminar held via Microsoft Streams.
Advancing prosperity through faster productivity growth
The Australian Productivity Commission released its 5-yearly Productivity Inquiry Report Advancing Prosperity in March 2023. The report focuses on five key reform pillars, aimed at supporting Australian productivity growth over coming years:
building an adaptable workforce;
harnessing data, digital technology and diffusion;
creating a more dynamic economy;
lifting productivity in the non-market sector; and
securing net zero at least cost.
The recommended reforms were designed to enable Australia to capitalise on global technological opportunities and to overcome the productivity challenges in areas where growth has been historically harder to achieve — particularly the services sector, where 80% of Australia’s economic activity takes place and where 90% of working Australians are currently employed.
About Michael Brennan
Michael Brennan chairs the Australian Productivity Commission.
Previously Michael was Deputy Secretary, Fiscal Group, in the Federal Treasury with responsibility for Budget Policy, Retirement Incomes, Commonwealth-State Relations, Social Policy and Infrastructure Financing. Before that he was Deputy Secretary, Economic in the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance. Michael has worked as an Associate Director in the economics and policy practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Michael holds a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from the ANU.
Michael is currently working on the Closing the Gap Review and worked on the Productivity Review inquiry.
Slides and video recording
You can download Michael’s slides (as a PDF file) here.
And you can view his lecture here too!
Productivity in a changing world
This seminar is part of the Treasury’s seminar series on the topic of “Productivity in a Changing World”. The topic recognises that lifting productivity performance continues to be central to improving New Zealanders’ wellbeing, and that we face this challenge in the context of significant economic, social and environmental shifts. These shifts will require considerable changes in our economy if we are to sustain and improve our economic and productivity performance.
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