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Following on from the Summit, the non-government co-hosts convened a series of state & territory roundtable discussions entitled Affordable Housing: After the Summit. Summaries of these State Roundtable discussions are available below. NSW Roundtable Summary (PDF) 122kb Qld Roundtable Summary (PDF) 139kb Vic Roundtable Summary (PDF) 142kb
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Media Release - 3 August 2005 (PDF) Key Directions for Affordable Housing - August 2005 (PDF) Communiqué: A Call for Action (PDF) Keeping the dream alive (PDF) 19 kb Media Release 27 June (PDF) 218 kb Media Release 22 June (PDF) 85kb
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FRED ARGY
During his long career in the Commonwealth public service, he served as Secretary to the path-breaking Inquiry on the Australian Financial System ( Campbell report) in 1979-81, Ambassador to the OECD (1983-5) and senior policy adviser in several departments, including Treasury. His last position in the public service was as Director of the Economic planning Advisory Commission.
Since retiring from the Public Service in 1991, he has been President of the Economic Society of Australia, Project Director with the Committee for Economic Development, Director of Legal & General Australia and a member of the Commonwealth Grants Commission. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the ANU where he lectures occasionally on public policy.
Although now mainly retired, he is an active participant in Australian public policy debate.
He has published widely. His most recent book is Where to from here? Australian Egalitarianism under threat (Allen and Unwin, 2003.
During his period in the public service he was awarded an OBE and an AM for services to economic planning. He has a Master Degree in Economics from Sydney University and was recently awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Science in Economics by that same university.
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