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Australia and the international financial crisis

Mr Ian Macfarlane AC

Summary
The annual Lowy Lecture on Australia in the World is the highlight of our events calendar. The 2008 lecture was delivered by Mr Ian Macfarlane AC in Sydney on Wednesday 3 December 2008.

In this lecture Mr Macfarlane seeks to answer the question of what is different about this financial crisis from the seven previous crises of the deregulated era spanning the past thirty years, and the lessons we can draw from it.

Ian Macfarlane was Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1996 to 2006. He has been a director of the Lowy Institute since its inception.

The 2008 Lowy Lecture can be heard here:
Australia and the international financial crisis - MP3 (20MB)

A video can be seen on Slow TV at: http://www.themonthly.com.au/tm/node/1371

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