The 2017 Murdoch University Student Economics Conference will attract more than 400 Year 12 students and teachers to the campus on Friday, 24 March.

The Conference was an initiative that began in 2016 by Loretta Dumas, Associate Lecturer in the School of Business and Governance.

The conference enables the eminent academics of today, to engage the young economists of tomorrow. The inaugural conference was extremely successful and the School of Business and Governance is repeating the event in 2017, in collaboration with Perth Modern School.

This initiative creates a collaborative, educational dialogue between students, teachers and Murdoch University academics. Presentations are aligned to the ATAR Economics syllabus but the conference will also expose students to new ideas and new ways of economic thinking.

The 2017 Murdoch University Student Conference includes presentations on the current state of the Australian economy, globalisation and game theory. Steven Kemp (co-author of the Year 11 and 12 Economics texts and ATAR Economics Chief Marker) will discuss the 2016 ATAR Economics exam and advise students on how to prepare for the 2017 Economics exam. This year’s conference keynote speaker is Shane Wright, Economics editor for The West Australian, who will be flying from Canberra to discuss the phenomenon at the ‘tip of everyone’s tongue’: Trump.