NSW State election 2023

With two weeks to go until the 2023 NSW State election, voters across the state are preparing to head to the polls to elect the 58th Parliament of New South Wales. 

The following University of Sydney experts are available to comment on key election issues, including: climate and conservation, cost of living, education, energy, gambling reform, healthcare and women's health, housing affordability, infrastructure and transport, integrity, politics and parliament and proposed changes to superannuation. 

• Professor Christopher Wright from the Business School can comment on organisational change, management innovation, sustainability, critical understandings of capitalism and political economy. CONTACT: christopher.wright@sydney.edu.au 
• Professor Dieter Hochuli from the School of Life and Environmental Sciences can comment on urban ecology, biodiversity, insects and conservation. CONTACT: dieter.hochuli@sydney.edu.au
• Dr Katherine Owens from the Sydney Law School and the Sydney Environment Institute can comment on Murray-Darling Basin governance, water law, energy and climate law. CONTACT: tess.gibney@sydney.edu.au
• Professor Mark Krockenberger from the Sydney School of Veterinary Science can talk about koalas, chlamydiosis (chlamydia) in koalas. CONTACT: mark.krockenberger@sydney.edu.au
• Associate Professor Mathew Crowther from the School of Life and Environmental Sciences can comment on wildlife ecology, koalas, koala habitats, native animal response to climate change and threatened species. CONTACT: mathew.crowther@sydney.edu.au
• Dr Valentina Mella from the Sydney School of Veterinary Science can comment on wildlife ecology, koala behaviour & response to climate change, fauna management and conservation. CONTACT: valentina.mella@sydney.edu.au

• Associate Professor Andrew Grant from the Business School can comment on buy now pay later, behavioural finance, individual investor decision making and betting markets. CONTACT: andrew.grant@sydney.edu.au
• Associate Professor Andrey Vasnev from the Business School can comment on inflation, forecast combination in business, finance and economics. CONTACT: andrey.vasnev@sydney.edu.au
• Dr Luke Hartigan from the School of Economics can comment on inflation, interest rates, macroeconomics, cost of living, economic policy. CONTACT: tess.gibney@sydney.edu.au 
• Associate Professor Lynne Chester from the School of Economics can comment on household energy affordability, energy markets, policy responses of governments to energy issues, privatisation and financialisation of energy sectors, economic regulation. CONTACT: tess.gibney@sydney.edu.au

• Professor Helen Watt from the Sydney School of Education and Social Work can comment on teachers’ salaries, early-career teachers, educational psychology. CONTACT: tess.gibney@sydney.edu.au 
• Professor Susan McGrath-Champ from the Business School can comment on teachers’ working conditions and pay, teacher education, small group tutoring, gender pay equity. CONTACT: susan.mcgrathchamp@sydney.edu.au 
• Associate Professor Wayne Cotton from the Sydney School of Education and Social Work can comment on school funding, teaching performance assessment, teaching effectiveness, teacher education. CONTACT: wayne.cotton@sydney.edu.au

• Professor of Practice Glenn Platt from the School of Electrical and Information Engineering can comment on the energy grid, infrastructure, pricing, policy, consumer energy and power bills and the shift to renewables. CONTACT: glenn.platt@sydney.edu.au

• Dr Rohan Miller from the Business School can comment on Sydney’s night economy and alcohol-related violence, problem gambling and gambling availability, waste and recycling as a function of consumer behaviour and marketing. CONTACT: rohan.miller@sydney.edu.au 
• Professor Sally Gainsbury, Director of the Gambling Treatment and Research Clinic, can comment on gambling, including gambling problems, cashless gambling, prevention of problems and advertising. CONTACT: sally.gainsbury@sydney.edu.au

• Professor Andrew Wilson from the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics can comment on disease prevention prevention and public health. CONTACT: matt.johnston@sydney.edu.au 
• Professor Catherine Hawke from the School of Rural Health, Dubbo/Orange can comment on rural health and public health. CONTACT: Rebecca.roennfeldt@sydney.edu.au
• Professor Cheryl Jones from the Sydney Medical School can comment on infection and immunity, virology, encephalitis, maternal and child health and neonatal infections. CONTACT: cheryl.jones@sydney.edu.au
• Professor Kirsten Black from the Sydney University Central Clinical School can comment on contraception, abortion, menopause, access to sexual and reproductive services. CONTACT: kirsten.black@sydney.edu.au 
• Associate Professor Melissa Kang from the Sydney Medical School can comment on youth health, reproductive health and women’s health and access to youth health care in rural and regional areas. CONTACT: melissa.kang@sydney.edu.au
• Associate Professor Susan Heward-Belle from the Sydney School of Education and Social Work can comment on NSW domestic violence policy, domestic and family violence, women’s wellbeing, social policy and social work. CONTACT: tess.gibney@sydney.edu.au

• Dr Cameron Murray from the Henry Halloran Research Trust in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning can comment on housing policy, housing affordability, property market analysis and urban economics. CONTACT: c.murray@sydney.edu.au
• Professor Nicole Gurran from the School of Architecture, Design and Planning can comment on urban and regional planning policy, housing policy, sustainability and planning, renters and renting, housing affordability and short term rental regulation. CONTACT: nicole.gurran@sydney.edu
• Professor Stephen Whelan from the School of Economics can comment on housing tax policy, housing affordability, cost of living, macroeconomics, housing markets, inequality, social policy. CONTACT: stephen.whelan@sydney.edu.au 

• Professor David Hensher from the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Business School can comment on transport economics, transport policy and strategy, transport infrastructure, public transport. CONTACT: david.hensher@sydney.edu.au 
• Dr Geoffrey Clifton from the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Business School can comment on transport infrastructure investment, bus corridors, public transport, transport pricing strategies. CONTACT: geoffrey.clifton@sydney.edu.au
• Professor John Rose from the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Business School can comment on transition to electric vehicles, electric vehicle infrastructure, behavioural change in transport. CONTACT: john.rose@sydney.edu.au 
• Adjunct Professor Martin Locke from the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Business School can comment on road tolls. CONTACT: lidunian.partners@gmail.com 
• Professor Rico Merkert from the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Business School can comment on the aviation industry, supply chain management, transport economics and commercial drone use. CONTACT: rico.merkert@sydney.edu.au 

• Professor Rodney Smith from the School of Social and Political Sciences can comment on pork-barrelling, public sector ethics, political ethics and corruption. CONTACT: rodney.smith@sydney.edu.au

• Dr Stewart Jackson from the School of Social and Political Sciences can comment on political party systems, the Australian Greens, policy formulation and program delivery, party and parliamentary systems. CONTACT: stewart.jackson@sydney.edu.au

• Professor Susan Thorp from the Business School can comment on superannuation, life cycle finance, individual financial decision making, financial wellbeing and retirement. CONTACT: susan.thorp@sydney.edu.au 
• Dr Cameron Murray from the Henry Halloran Research Trust in the School of Architecture, Planning and Design can comment on proposed changes to superannuation and retirement policy. CONTACT: c.murray@sydney.edu.au

For any further information, please contact the University of Sydney Media Office: 

• T: (02) 8627 0246
• M: 0402 972 137 (this number cannot receive text messages)
• E: media.office@sydney.edu.au

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