Richard Denniss

Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Australia Institute, Dr Richard Denniss is a prominent Australian economist, author and public policy commentator, and has spent the last twenty years moving between policy-focused roles in academia, federal politics and think-tanks.

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He was a Lecturer in Economics at the university of Newcastle and former Associate Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU. He is a regular contributor to The Monthly and the author of several books including: Dead Centre: How political pragmatism is killing us, More Fool Me: How the gas industry tricked Australia, Econobabble, Curing Affluenza and Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next?