Francis Daniel Crean was an Australian politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1951 to 1977,representing the Labor Party. He was a minister in the Whitlam government,including as Treasurer from 1972 to 1974 and Deputy Prime Minister for a few months in 1975.
Peter Howard Costello is an Australian businessman,lawyer and former politician who served as the treasurer of Australia in government of John Howard from 1996 to 2007. He is the longest-serving treasurer in Australia's history. Costello was a member of parliament (MP) of the Australian House of Representatives from 1990 to 2009,representing the Division of Higgins. He also served as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 2007.
John Robert Hewson AM is an Australian former politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 1994. He led the Liberal-National Coalition to defeat at the 1993 Australian federal election.
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is Australia's central bank and banknote issuing authority. It has had this role since 14 January 1960,when the Reserve Bank Act 1959 removed the central banking functions from the Commonwealth Bank.
Herbert Cole "Nugget" Coombs was an Australian economist and public servant. He is best known for having been the first Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia,in which capacity he served from 1960 to 1968.
The Sydney Institute is a privately funded Australian policy forum founded in 1989. The institute took over the resources of the Sydney Institute of Public Affairs which ceased activity in the late 1980s.
Joshua Anthony Frydenberg is an Australian former politician who served as the treasurer of Australia and deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 2018 to 2022. He also served as a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Kooyong from 2010 to 2022.
Sir William Ian Potter,known as Ian Potter,was an Australian stockbroker,businessman and philanthropist. Potter was knighted in 1962. The Ian Potter Foundation,which he established in 1964,has made grants to research institutes,charities,universities and arts organisations. Since 1993,the Ian Potter Cultural Trust has awarded grants to individuals in the arts.
Glenn Robert Stevens is an Australian economist who was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 2006 to 2016.
The Faculty of Business and Economics is one of the 10 primary faculties at Monash University.
Kenneth Ross Henry is an Australian economist and public servant who served as the Secretary of the Department of the Treasury from 2001 to 2011.
Boediono is an Indonesian economist and statesman. He was the 11th vice president of Indonesia,in office from 2009 to 2014. He became vice president after winning the 2009 presidential election together with the then-incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Prior to this he had been the Governor of the Indonesian Central Bank and a professor of economics at Gadjah Mada University.
The Australian property bubble is the economic theory that the Australian property market has become or is becoming significantly overpriced and due for a significant downturn. Since the early 2010s,various commentators,including one Treasury official,have claimed the Australian property market is in a significant bubble.
Sir Leslie Galfreid Melville was a renowned Australian economist,academic and public servant. He helped form Australia's central banking system and gave his voice in international economic forums in the years following World War II. He also played an important role in the early years of the Australian National University,serving as its Vice-Chancellor between 1953 and 1960.
The early 1990s recession saw a period of economic downturn affect much of the world in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The economy of Australia suffered its worst recession since the Great Depression.
Daniel Mulino is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Council,representing the Eastern Victoria Region from 2014 to 2018. In the 2019 federal election he was elected as the inaugural Member for the Division of Fraser.
Philip Lowe is an Australian economist who was Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia from September 2016 to September 2023. He was also deputy governor under Glenn Stevens from February 2012 to September 2016.
Michael G. Porter is an Australian academic economist who taught at the Australian National University (Canberra) and Monash University (Melbourne). In 1979,he set up a think-tank at Monash University,the Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS) supporting freer markets in commodities,finance and foreign exchange along with researching and advocating significant market-improving regulatory reforms. As part of this process CoPS employed leading US and other international economists and industry specialists. He is also the founding director of Tasman Institute from 1990-98
Guy Debelle is an Australian economist who is the former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia,having been appointed in 2016.
