The Full Employment or WorkChoices and Welfare-to-Work Conference 2006 will incorporate the 8th Path to Full Employment Conference and the 13th National Conference on Unemployment. It will be staged at the University of Newcastle - Thursday, December 7 and Friday, December 8, 2005. Major themes...

The conference will have three main themes: 1. The Private Sector and Agriculture and Rural Development 2. Trade Links to the Private Sector and Poverty Reduction 3. Business, Finance and Poverty Reduction

The relationship between work and life was once a major focus of analysis but disappeared with the decline of manufacturing and the death of traditional occupational communities. Recent developments suggest that the work-life boundary should again become an analytical focus. These developments...

The conference will feature papers presented on the following themes in four parallel sessions: (1) Economic Valuation; (2) Economic Instruments; (3) Economic Appraisal; and (4) Cultural Heritage.