Oxfam Community Aid Abroad and Jubilee Australia, present
Debt and International Financial Reform - what's our role?
PUBLIC FORUM
Wed 7th November, 7-9pm (Doors open 6.30pm)
The Supper Room
Melbourne Town Hall
Contact: Annabel Brown, (03) 9289-9444, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.caa.org.au/voteglobal
Debt has crippled many of the world's poor countries for decades.
Massive debt repayments have an impact on millions of poor
people, by diverting government funds from vital social services and
economic infrastructure.
Meanwhile, international currency speculation contributes to
market instability - instability which translates into enormous
profits for the speculators who make money from money alone.
But as the Southeast Asian, Russian and Mexican financial crises
demonstrated, the impact on the real people who live in those
economies is enormous when currency speculators rapidly pull out
their funds in search of greater profits elsewhere.
So what should Australia be doing about these issues? Where do
our political parties stand on the solutions which have been
proposed to reform the international economy - solutions such as
the Tobin Tax and the Heavily Indebted Poor Country Initiative?
Come to this pre-election forum to hear from and question
representatives of the major political parties on their position on
these issues, and how they believe Australia should be responding
to the challenges of globalisation.
A panel will lead questioning of the speakers and tease out key
issues for discussion.
Speakers
Sen. Lyn Allison, Australian Democrats
Kelvin Thomson, Australian Labor Party
Sen. Kay Patterson, Liberal Party
Scott Kinnear, Australian Greens
Panel
Assoc. Prof. Joe Remenyi, Deakin University
Grant Hill, Jubilee Australia
Andrew Hewett, Executive Director, OCAA
Wed. 7th November 2001
7-9pm (Doors open 6.30pm)
The Supper Room
Melbourne Town Hall
(Gold coin donation)
This forum is part of Oxfam Community Aid Abroad's "Vote Global"
Campaign. The organisation is urging voters and politicians to think
outside their own backyards in the federal election on issues
including Australia's treatment of asylum seekers, overseas aid,
Indigenous rights, third world debt, human rights, the UN, corporate
responsibility and fair trade.
For more info see www.caa.org.au/voteglobal
Anne Martinelli
Advocacy Officer
Oxfam Community Aid Abroad
156 George St, Fitzroy 3065
Ph: (03) 9289 9444
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