*** Registration for this event is now open. ***
Join us for the latest instalment of TasCOSS’s free, online Policy Conversation series on Tuesday 3 June 2025 where we will be joined by Professor Richard Eccleston to unpack the 2025/26 Tasmanian State Budget with a focus on its implications for the community services industry, and how well it addresses some of the most pressing issues facing Tasmanians today.
If you have any budget-related questions you’d like answered by Richard, please send them through to Stephen Durney, Senior Policy Officer, via email.
TasCOSS Members: Free Admission
Details on how to join the Microsoft Teams session will be distributed following registration.
Registration closes 12noon, Monday 2 June 2025. For more information, please contact Stephen Durney, Senior Policy Officer, on (03) 6169 9508 or via email.
Register to attend the upcoming Policy Conversation: Unpacking the Budget with Professor Richard Eccleston
Richard Eccleston is a Professor of Political Science and the founding Director of the Tasmanian Policy Exchange (TPE) at the University of Tasmania, where he leads a dynamic team of policy scholars focused on the big issues shaping Tasmania’s future.
He was the founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change (2014-19), having previously been the head of the Politics and Policy discipline. Richard is an internationally recognised researcher and has been the lead investigator on five Australian Research Council funded projects in the fields of Australian and comparative political economy, with a focus on tax policy, federalism and regional development.
In recent years, Richard has, through his leadership of the TPE, led the University’s policy engagement and impact program making major contributions to public debate and policy on key issues, including housing, climate and energy policy, regional development and the changing nature of work.
Richard is deeply committed to building and sustaining long-term collaborations with key partners and has strong connections with the Tasmanian community. He chaired the Independent Review of the Tasmania’s Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation, is a member of the Premier’s Health and Wellbeing Advisory Council, The Marinus Link Consumer Advisory Panel and The Climate Minister’s Expert Reference Group.