Peter Dawkins Author

Professor Peter Dawkins was Director of the Melbourne Institute, a position he was appointed to in 1996. Prior to that he was Professor of Economics at Curtin University of Technology. In 1999-2000 he was a member of the federal government's Reference Group on Welfare Reform, and since 2001 has been a member of the Australian Statistics Advisory Council (since 1999) and of the Prime Minister's Science Engineering and Innovation Council (since 2003).

Michael Stutchbury was Editor of The Australian and is now Editor in Chief of the Australia Financial Review.