(Since 2014)

2020

‘Gender, Tax and Welfare in Australia: Still Unequal’, London School of Economics, 11 February 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV3mM4pU4JU&feature=youtu.be

2019

  • ‘Distribution between Rich and Poor Countries’ IBFD Knowledge Transfer Seminar, 4 February 2019, International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • ‘How far does EU Influence in Tax Extend? The View from Australia’ UCLouvain Seminar Series: The Influence of EU Economic Law in the World? – How Soft? How Global? , 6 February 2019, Brussels, Belgium
  • ‘Gender Lensing Masterclass: An Analysis of the Gender-Patterned Effects of the Tax and Transfer System’, Australian Gender Economics Workshop, 13 February 2019, Victoria University, Melbourne
  • ‘Revisiting Trajectories of Tax Reform’ at 5 day Invitation Workshop, How Countries Learn to Tax: Complexity, Legal Transplants and Legal Culture, Leiden University, 25 February to 1 March 2019, Leiden, Netherlands
  • Panel Discussion, The Tax Base and Rate, Where Policy Meets Reality, the Australian GST on its 20th Anniversary University of NSW, 25-26 March 2019, Sydney
  • ‘The gender-patterned effects of the tax and transfer system’, Women in Economics Lunchtime CPD Seminar, 28 March 2019, Melbourne
  • ‘Economic Inequality, Tax and Welfare’, Public Lecture, hosted by me with Professor Roger Wilkins, Mr Troy Henderson, Melbourne University School of Government, 28 March 2019, Melbourne
  • Wise Women Panel, WISE Summit 2019 – Balance for Better, Invited Panelist, 20 May 2019, Melbourne
  • ‘A Wealth Tax Should Fund a Basic Income for Australia’ (paper with David Ingles and Ben Phillips), Outrageous Idea 1, Festival of Outrageous Tax Ideas, University of NSW, 30 May 2019 (commentary by Gigi Foster, UNSW Business School and Brendan Coates, Grattan Institute)
  • ‘Still Unequal: Gender, Tax and Social Policy in Australia’, PricewaterhouseCoopers Gender Equality Network, 22 October 2019, Canberra
  • ‘Income tax resilience; Case Law Trends in the Income Tax’, 11 November 2019, Invited Seminar, Australian Treasury, Canberra
  • ‘Inequality’, Panel, Saving People and the Planet, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia Annual Symposium, 12 November 2019, National Library of Australia, Canberra
  • ‘The Independence and Accountability of the Commissioner of Taxation’, Panel, 2019 Taxation Law Workshop, Law Council of Australia, 15 November 2019, Melbourne
  • ‘Experts, Reform and the Public Revenue’, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Economic Knowledge and the Australian State: Past, Present and Future , 12-13 December 2019, Canberra

2018

  • ‘Women with Top Incomes: Winners in the Tax System?’ Australasian Tax Teachers Association Conference, Monash University Business School, 18-19 January 2018
  • ‘From Guaranteed Minimum Income to Basic Income: What Would it Look Like Today?’ Revisiting Henderson Conference 2018, Melbourne Institute, University of Melbourne, 15-16 February 2018
  • ‘Company Tax post-Trump: Options for Fiscally Sustainable Reform’ Victoria University of Wellington, Business School, 27 February 2018 (New Zealand)
  • ‘Deciding Tax Cases in an International Context’, Chair and Commentator, Federal Court of Australia, 13 March 2018 (Melbourne)
  • ‘Launching the Open Budget Survey for Australia’, 20 March 2018, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University (Canberra)
  • ‘Payment Thinking in Tax Debt Collection – Getting the Legal Settings Right’, International Conference on Tax Administration, University of New South Wales, 5-6 April 2018 (with Emily Millane) (Grant-funded)
  • Invited Panellist, Committee for Sustainable Retirement Incomes Annual Conference 30 May 2018 (Canberra) moderated by Emma Alberici (ABC)
  • Invited Guest Lecture, University of Indiana Public Finance exchange course, 12 June 2018 (Canberra) (part-funded)
  • ‘Tax and housing’, Affordable Housing Conference, Sydney, 28 June 2018
  • ‘Tax in the tank’, Tax and modelling panel, Australian Conference of Economists, Canberra, 13 July 2018
  • ‘A basic income for Australia? Rationale, design and cost’, Treasury, Canberra, 3 August 2018 (presenting paper by David Ingles, Ben Phillips and Miranda Stewart)
  • Hybrid public policy: Book Launch, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, 12 July 2018
  • ‘Basic income: Feasibility and cost’, Invited guest speaker, Economists Lunch, The Australian National University, Canberra, 3 August 2018
  • ‘Childcare and Effective Marginal Tax Rates’, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Canberra, 9 August 2018
  • ‘Behavioural Insights, Tax and Public Policy’, Chair and Discussant, Behavioural Economics and Public Policy Conference, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, 10 August 2018
  • ‘A basic income for Australia? Rationale, design and cost’, Australia-Korea Foundation workshop, New approaches to tax and welfare in Korea and Australia (funded), Seoul, Korea, 8 September 2018
  • ‘What is the purpose of tax transparency?’ International Fiscal Association Japan Branch, invited seminar (funded), Tokyo, Japan, 11 September 2018
  • ‘Gender, Participation, Care and Work Participation’, Economic and Social Participation Network, ESPrit Workshop, University of Melbourne, Chair and discussant, 9 October 2018
  • ‘The political economy of tax’, Melbourne Institute/The Australian Economic and Social Outlook Conference, panellist, Melbourne, 12 October 2018
  • Keynote address, Taxation Issues in the Global Digital Economy, International Fiscal Association Indonesia, Annual Conference, Jakarta, 5 December 2018
  • Public Lecture, Tax Reform in a global digital context, University of Indonesia, 6 December 2018
  • Invitation Seminar, Budget Transparency and the Open Budget Project, Ministry of Finance, Government of Indonesia, with Prospera, Program Kemitraan Indonesia Australia, 7 December 2018
  • Participated in Policy Roundtable with Professor Mariana Mazzucato, CPD-Monash, Melbourne, 12 December 2018

2017

  • ‘Perspectives: Future directions in corporate tax’, The Tax Institute, Financial Services Conference, 8-10 February 2017
  • ‘Double tax treaties and the multilateral instrument’, The Tax Institute 32nd National Convention, Adelaide, 17 March 2017 (with Peter Godber)
  • ‘Taxes and Transfers and Gender Analysis’, Office for Women, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Canberra 21 March 2017
  • ‘Fiscal Policy and Public Health’, World Congress of Public Health, Melbourne, 6 April 2017
  • ‘Company Tax Reform Options’, Melbourne Economic Forum on Company Taxation, 11 April 2017
  • ‘Company Tax’, Grattan Institute, State Library, Melbourne, 11 April 2017
  • ‘Tax and Welfare Policy,’ Asia Pacific Women Judges Association Annual Conference, Sydney, 27-28 April 2017
  • ‘Reflections on the 2017 Budget’, National Press Club, Women in Economics, Canberra, 16 May 2017 Post-Budget Public Forum, 16 May 2017 (with Danielle Wood, Grattan Institute; Rachel Ong, Curtin University)
  • ‘What’s next on the horizon? Post-budget policy analysis’, Sir Roland Wilson Foundation, 25 May 2017
  • ‘Tax and transfers’, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Hyatt Hotel, Canberra, 2 June 2017
  • ‘Managing Public Finances in Australia: Good, Bad, or Fiddling for No Good Reason?’,  La Nouvell-Caledonie face a la crise des finance publiques, Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Laboratoire de recherches juridique et économique, Noumea, 13 July 2017
  • ‘Tax and Transfer Policy’, Chifley Research Centre-ANU Think Tank, 4 August 2017
  • ‘Tax in the Federal Court’, University of Melbourne Law School, 23 August 2018
  • ‘Reforming Australia’s corporate tax: Fiscally sustainable options’, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Conference on the Future of Corporate Tax, 24-25 August 2017
  • Young IFA Network, Judge of the Moot Court, International Fiscal Association Annual Congress, Rio, Brazil, 28 August – 2 September 2017
  • Tax in the Federal Court: Gatekeepers for the Revenue or the Taxpayer?’ Conference on the 40th Anniversary of the Federal Court of Australia, Federal Court of Australia, Sydney, 5 September 2017
  • ‘Impact of Increased Transparency Requirements on Holding Structures’, International Bar Association Panel (Panellist), Sydney, 11 October 2017
  • ‘Gender responsive budgeting: How can this be renewed in Australia?’ Korean Women’s Development Institute, Conference on Gender Budgeting and Gender Equality: An International Comparison’, Seoul, Korea, 2 November 2017
  • Panel Discussant, Research and Public Engagement, Early Career Women’s Research Impact Day, QUT Business School, 6 November 2017
  • ‘Women and Top Incomes’, Queensland University of Technology Business School Research Seminar, 7 November 2017
  • ‘New Directions in Tax and Transfer Policy: Corporate Tax’, at Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Australia-Korea Foundation Workshop, Canberra, 9-10 November 2017
  • ‘Tax and tax reform in Australia: Groundhog Day?’ Victorian Commerce Teachers’ Association Conference, Invited Speaker, 27 November 2017
  • ‘Redistribution between rich and poor countries’, Max Planck Institute for Public Finance, Munich, Germany, 5 December 2017 (invited, fully funded)

2016

  • ‘Transnational Tax Law’ National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and International Fiscal Association Seminar, 1 February 2016
  • ‘Transnational Tax Law’ Hong Kong University Law School, Research Seminar, 22 March 2016
  • ‘Transnational tax law: fiction or reality, future or now?’ New York University Law School, Colloquium on Tax Policy and Public Finance, 29 March, 2016 http://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/upload_documents/Miranda%20Stewart3.pdf
  • International Fiscal Association, Asia-Pacific Regional Tax Conference, Seoul, South Korea, The Future of Anti-Abuse Rules and BEPS, 12-13 May 2016
  • Balancing the books? Post-budget policy analysis, Sir Roland Wilson Foundation Public Annual Budget Forum 19 May 2016
  • Equality Rights Alliance, Annual Members Meeting, presentation, 26 May 2016
  • The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series – Tax and the economy, 31 May 2016
  • Brotherhood Research and Policy Centre, Lunchtime seminar, 2 June 2016
  • ATO Policy and Law Design Leadership Conference, 6 June 2016
  • ‘Reforming fiscal federal democracy’ Sir Samuel Griffith Federation Conference, Brisbane, 16-17 June 2016
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers and Australian Financial Review Boardroom Discussion, Company tax, 23 June 2016
  • Financial Information Services conference, Tax policy seminar, 28 June 2016
  • ‘Rebooting Reform’, University of New South Wales Roundtable, Sydney, 27 July 2016
  • ‘Tax and Transfer Policy’, Australian Public Service Commission, Department of Finance graduates, Canberra, 10 August 2016
  • ‘Gender Budgeting and Tax Policy’, Good Shepherd Australia NZ, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, 16 August 2016
  • ‘Gender Budgeting and Policy Analysis’, Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, Women and Royal Commission Branch, Melbourne, 19 August 2016
  • ‘Provocations in Law’, Melbourne Law School, 27 October 2016
  • ‘The Future of Company Tax in Australia’, Korea Tax Research Forum, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 10-13 November 2016
  • ‘Coordination and the fight against tax havens’, Commentator on Kai Konrad, University of Sydney, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, 29 November 2016

2015

  • Think Tank on Reform of the Federation: Federation, Health and Reform of the Tax System Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, 16 March 2015, Old Parliament House, Canberra.
  • Policy Pitch: Tax Reform, Grattan Institute, 21 April 2015, State Library of Victoria.
  • ‘Workshop on working tax credits: would they work in Australia’? With Hielke Buddelmeyer, 23 April 2015, Crawford School, ANU (in partnership with Jobs Australia).
  • Australian Financial Review, Banking and Wealth Summit, 28 April 2015, Q&A Panel, Aligning taxation with financial system objectives
  • ‘Budget Briefing’, ACT Economics Society, 13 May 2015, Canberra.
  • ‘Young Women’s Budget Briefing’, YWCA, 14 May 2015, Canberra, distributed on Youtube.
  • ‘Gender and tax, the more things change, the more they stay the same’? Theorising Women in Law, presentation in workshop Post Feminism. Post Theory. Post Critique? ANU College of Law, 15-16 May 2015.
  • ‘The future of international economic governance and the G20 Is BEPS part of a fundamental change to international tax’? Lowy Institute G20 Studies Centre, 20-21 May 2015.
  • Tax and Transfers for Retirement Policy, Inaugural Sustainable Retirement Incomes Leadership Forum, 2-3 June 2015, Hyatt Hotel, Canberra.
  • Wealth, income and fiscal challenges, Crawford Australian Leadership Forum, Global Realities, Domestic Choices, 28-30 June 2015, Crawford School, ANU.
  • ‘Tax reform’, Annual Conference of Economists Brisbane, 8 July 2015
  • ‘Future of the tax system’, QLD Tax Institute Tax Forum, presentation, Brisbane 28 August 2015
  • Prosper Australia, 124th Henry George Dinner, Keynote speech, Melbourne, 2 September 2015
  • Gender Budgeting, Victorian Department of Treasury & Finance, Melbourne 10 September 2015
  • ‘Means testing pensions and taxing savings over the lifecourse: Inequities and perverse incentives’,
  • International Conference on Welfare Reform: Meeting the policy challenges of change, Australian National University, 17-18 September 2015
  • Australian Financial Review Tax Reform Summit, Sydney 23 September 2015
  • Victorian Tax Institute Annual Tax Forum, Melbourne, 9 October 2015
  • Law Council Tax Workshop, The Multinational Anti-Avoidance Law, Melbourne 17-18 October 2015
  • Parliamentary Library Lecture, What is Tax Reform and What Can it Do?’, Parliament House, Canberra, 21 October 2015, http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/prspub/4231928/upload_binary/4231928.pdf;fileType=application/pdf
  • Tax and Housing, AHURI National Housing Conference, Perth, 28-30 October 2015
  • The way forward: Gender equality in Australia’s tax and transfer system, Academy of Social Sciences
  • in Australia Workshop, 4-5 November 2015
  • Women and Work Roundtable, Sydney University, 6 November 2015
  • HC Coombs Policy Forum and Crawford School, Designing Effective and Innovative Public Policy in a Complex Environment, Canberra 23 November 2015, https://crawford.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/6419/
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  • ‘New fiscal approaches for federal democracy in Australia’, Democracy in Transition, University of Melbourne School of Government Conference, Melbourne 7-8 December 2015
  • Australian Superannuation Funds Association Conference, tax reform panel, Brisbane, 27 November 2015
  • Melbourne Economists Roundtable, Melbourne, 17 December 2015

2014

  • ‘Independent fiscal rules: new rules for the dark arts of budgeting’, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, USA, 27 February 2014
  • ‘Corporate and international tax workshop: an Australian perspective’, Tax Policy Center, Washington DC, USA, 28 February 2014
  • ‘Tax avoidance and general anti-avoidance rules: a Commonwealth perspective’, Victoria University of Wellington Law School, with Professor Vern Krishna, University of Ottowa and Professor John Prebble, Victoria University (5 March 2014)
  • ‘International tax challenges for Asia and the G20: competition and coordination’, APPS policy Conference (11-12 March 2014)
  • ‘Australia’s general anti-avoidance rule – interpretation and reform’, Auckland University Business School (10 April 2014)
  • ‘Discussant on Raskolnikov’, Participant as International Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Business Taxation Annual Fellows Symposium (26 June 2014)
  • The fiscal state, benefit and legitimacy’, Cambridge Tax Law History Conference, Cambridge, UK (30 June 2014)
  • ‘Past and future of the tax state’, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Tax Day Guest Lecture (8 July 2014)
  • Panellist, Business Council of Australia and Clayton Utz, BEPS and Tax Reform Workshop, 6-7 November 2014, Canberra.
  • Tax Reform Roundtable, Reform of taxation of personal and retirement income, Australian Council of Social Services and Business Coalition for Tax Reform, 15 December 2014, Sydney.