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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Margaret Blood <<a href="mailto:Margaret.Blood@ASSA.EDU.AU" target="_blank">Margaret.Blood@ASSA.EDU.AU</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, 24 September 2013 2:06 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Dean Arts <<a href="mailto:Dean.Arts@vu.edu.au" target="_blank">Dean.Arts@vu.edu.au</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia 2013 Annual Symposium - Levelling the Spirit: Addressing the social impacts of economic inequality - Canberra, Tuesday 12 November 2013- RSVP by 20 October 2013 if possible<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Addressee</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia would like to draw your attention to its Annual Symposium being held in Canberra on Tuesday 12 November 2013 and invite you to consider registering for the Symposium and/or circulating information
on the Symposium to relevant staff and students.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Symposium, on the topic <b><i>Levelling the Spirit: Addressing the social impacts of economic inequality</i></b>, may be of interest to staff and students in social sciences schools or faculties.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Registration for the Symposium includes attendance at the President’s Drinks immediately following the Symposium (4.30pm) and the Cunningham Lecture (at 5.30pm). The Cunningham Lecture will be presented by Professor Simon Chapman AO FASSA
on the topic: <b><i>Plain Packaging of tobacco products: A case study in radical health adoption and the role of advocacy</i></b><i>.</i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A new series <b>of <i>ABS Measuring Economic Wellbeing Facts Sheets</i></b> giving high quality information about the most important dimensions of inequality in income and wealth in Australia will be launched at the Symposium.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A copy of the ‘flyer’ for the Symposium is attached. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Registrations can be made online from <a href="http://www.assa.edu.au/events/symposium/2013" target="_blank">
http://www.assa.edu.au/events/symposium/2013</a> or by completing and returning the attached registration forms as applicable. Students need to provide evidence of student status. Registration charges are set out below and on the website.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.5pt; line-height:19.2pt">The last decade or so has seen social and economic inequalities increase in many countries including Australia. A recent OECD report points to an increase in income inequality in most (but not
all) OECD countries in the two decades to 2008 and notes that:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:14pt; line-height:19.2pt">Rising income inequality creates economic, social and political challenges. It can stifle upward social mobility, making it harder for talented and hard-working people to get the rewards they
deserve… The resulting inequality of opportunity will inevitably impact economic performance as a whole… (OCED, <i>Summary of Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising</i>, 2011: 40).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.5pt; line-height:19.2pt">In <i>The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better</i> (2009) Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett suggest that the broader economic and social consequences of high and growing
levels of inequality include the prevalence of health and social problems, teenage births, violence and rates of incarceration.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.5pt; line-height:19.2pt">While the dimensions of change differ from country to country, common trends include increasing inequality in both economic dimensions such as income, living standards and wealth, and in social
dimensions ranging from social exclusion to the digital divide. In Australia, inequalities in school funding and tertiary education participation, in locational disadvantage, between Indigenous and non- Indigenous groups, and between and within generations
present challenges that the political system seems incapable of dealing with.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.5pt; line-height:19.2pt">This symposium will explore the nature, meaning and especially the impacts of inequality for the fabric of social relations, public policy and democratic government. It will feature the launch
of a new series of <i>ABS Measuring Economic Wellbeing Facts Sheets</i> giving high quality information about the most important dimensions of inequality in income and wealth in Australia. While the symposium will inform its audience about magnitudes and patterns
of change, the emphasis will be on open discussion of issues, perspectives and implications.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Cunningham Lecture is Free of Charge but RSVPs are required.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am happy to answer any questions about the Symposium and Cunningham Lecture.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards</p>
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